Example sentences of "it would not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , if you have chosen a lovely maple frame , with its attractive grain , it would not blend well with a pale pink background — a brown or gold colour scheme would be far better . |
| 2 | When it would not light they ran off , leaving the injured boy in a shed near a Leeds shopping centre . |
| 3 | If the OED were left as no more than a monument to the English of the twentieth century it would not remain the twenty-first century 's dictionary for long . |
| 4 | However , Italian Treasury Minister Guido Carli accepted a compromise assurance that the Institute would cease to exist as soon as the European central bank came into being ( i.e. that it would not remain in existence thereafter as what the Financial Times of Sept. 23 characterized as " a semi-permanent home for " second division " countries outside the EMU " ) . |
| 5 | Although the party failed to gain a seat , Mr Green said it would not deter the Labour group from running again in local polls . |
| 6 | It would not involve added services into severely congested Heathrow . |
| 7 | The unifying factor was Ho Chi Minh , acting as agent of the Comintern , and while it would not manage to suppress its nationalist tendencies indefinitely it was for the moment clearly identified with the Vietnamese working class . |
| 8 | The court said that it would not regard the separability of the information in question as being conclusive , but the fact that the alleged " confidential " information is part of a package and that the remainder of the package is not confidential is likely to throw light on whether the information in question is really a business secret . |
| 9 | But it would not avail her , he could always go and see her . |
| 10 | It would not move . |
| 11 | One of the most interesting and spectacular devices of the old farm horsemen was the stopping of a horse dramatically so that it would not move . |
| 12 | I you have not said it would not meet the Department of Transports criteria for financial support for example . |
| 13 | It seems you 've survived , goodness knows how , for really it would not matter if you did not . |
| 14 | Slave lines showed a propensity to innovate ; and in any case Abdulkarim seemed to think it would not matter crucially what his widowed sister 's daughter might do . |
| 15 | It would not matter what any inhabitant of Nunes told the police about Mary , for she had departed soon after that . |
| 16 | He realised it would not matter at all that they had no bathing costumes . |
| 17 | Only if it is taken for granted that the preference behaviour is that of a conscious subject , does it , of itself , provide a reason for promoting the preferred end , — it would not matter in the least if there was no conscious individual there to mind about anything . |
| 18 | If this assertion is correct , then it would not matter if the standing requirement was abolished entirely , provided some other mechanism was put in its place for weeding out hopeless and crank cases . |
| 19 | It would not matter that the consequence of so holding might be that the defendants , if they should lose the action , would satisfy the European Court of Human Rights that any verdict against them would constitute a breach of article 10 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms . |
| 20 | Ever since Lavoisier , chemists had kept their science distinct from what was coming to be called ‘ physics ’ ; Thomas Thomson even declared about 1840 that it would not matter if chemists and natural philosophers had different theories of heat — each could use what worked better for them . |
| 21 | ‘ But it would not matter if I have . |
| 22 | If we had such highly centralised decision-making it would not matter who won elections or who was Chancellor of the Exchequer , because such issues would be decided elsewhere . |
| 23 | We thought that if it was only one tournament out of a Tour that was growing so fast it would not matter . |
| 24 | It would not matter so much if a Turkish president were just a figurehead . |
| 25 | It would not matter whether the consent was expressly or impliedly given , i.e. there is no theft from a company when it has consented to the taking . |
| 26 | ‘ If income was rising sharply it would not matter that credit was being paid off but there is every indication that real income is flat , ’ he said . |
| 27 | It would not matter that the resident were a foreign national or a foreign company , so long as they were resident , were located in the UK and the transaction were in sterling , it would constitute domestic banking . |
| 28 | Again it would not matter if the person were a US citizen or not , so long as he or she lived in the US the classification would stand . |
| 29 | The Department of Health said it would not comment until it received details of the proposals . |
| 30 | It would not comment on the potential value of the joint venture but published reports put it at around $3,000m , adding that Cable & Wireless and Telstra would share 40% , Benpres would take another 40% , and the rest would go to smaller investors . |