Example sentences of "would [vb infin] no [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For purely practical reasons we do not permit debates in either House to be cited : it would add greatly to the time and expense involved in preparing cases involving the construction of a statute if counsel were expected to read all the debates in Hansard , and it would often be impracticable for counsel to get access to at least the older reports of debates in Select Committees of the House of Commons ; moreover , in a very large proportion of cases such a search , even if practicable , would throw no light on the question before the court . |
| 2 | ‘ I would think no jewel thief worth her salt would send a man directly to the hiding spot — no matter how high above the ground she was floating . ’ |
| 3 | I know that you would want no scandal attached to her name . ’ |
| 4 | Several delegates expressed disappointment at the delay in the electricity privatisation timetable , but Mr Wakeham said he would make no apology . |
| 5 | Government supporters would make no difficulties over the fact that the Criminal Justice Bill , as introduced , contained no provision for the abolition of capital punishment . |
| 6 | Georgian observers attended the meeting of CIS heads of state held in Minsk on Feb. 14 [ see p. 38771 ] , but the republic would make no decision about joining the Commonwealth until after the election of a new parliament . |
| 7 | It would make no sense to say that the dots in the picture had a Gestalt of themselves , but to apply this model to the brain and experience would be just like that ; for , if the experience just is a state of the brain , then there is no way in which the character of the experience can be explained as the result of some perspective on the brain . |
| 8 | And to come in and turn it upside down would make no sense , that would be bad management . |
| 9 | I am doing my utmost to persuade my colleagues in the Council of Ministers that it would make no sense , for the European Community as well as this country , if the directives were promulgated in their present form . |
| 10 | It would make no sense to booby-trap the weapon in these circumstances . |
| 11 | On Jan. 20 , responding to further deaths caused by separatist action , Chandra Shekhar reiterated during a visit to Chandigarh that central government was prepared to hold talks with any group pledging to restore peace in Punjab , but that his government would make no compromise on violence . |
| 12 | It would make no mistake . |
| 13 | For each of these I then evolved time-limited discussion structures applying to the subject of disruption a simple group interaction method ( for which I would make no claims of originality ) , a process intended to maximize the chances of ‘ on-task ’ participation leading to clear definition and appreciation of areas of agreement and divergence and needs for further analysis or action . |
| 14 | Perhaps , thought Hazel wryly , teeth and claws would make no impression on that great , firm body and shining pelt . |
| 15 | We further agreed that we would make no promises and twist no arms , and having decided on this general strategy , my friends urged me to leave the campaign to them . |
| 16 | Oldham manager Joe Royle would make no comment , but his centre forward Graeme Sharp said : ‘ Cambridge adapted better to the windy conditions and could have had a goal or two more . ’ |
| 17 | The Northern Ireland Office would make no comment until the whole judgment had been studied in detail . |
| 18 | The Welsh Office said last night that the minister would make no comment . |
| 19 | If the poem were a formal mess , reordering the five sections would make no difference ; in fact , such a reordering would destroy the cyclic form . |
| 20 | ‘ If you came from just down the road it would make no difference . |
| 21 | Although I was tempted to think that such a short time would make no difference , I knew that when I got near to Kano , if I got that far , every minute would count . |
| 22 | It would make no difference to him . |
| 23 | ‘ They said flotation would make no difference to AMV , and they kid themselves it 's still the same , but it is not . |
| 24 | I explained that this would make no difference as the results would be the same , whether the past lives were real or simply figments of her imagination . |
| 25 | His idea was that this would make no difference to those who knew how they were going to vote anyway , but could sway the others ; the floating vote , I suppose . |
| 26 | He knew his own country was falling back to heathenism again ( if only on the model of Saruman , not Sauron ) , and while mere professorial preaching would make no difference , a story might . |
| 27 | As for Iraq 's engineers , Mr Hussein 's demise would make no difference to their ability to build a bomb . |
| 28 | The appendix does not have any function in man ( i.e. it is a vestigial organ ) and therefore its removal would make no difference to Julie 's normal activities once she had recovered from the operation itself . |
| 29 | It 's one of those impossible calculations where a few more noughts would make no difference , like the number of light years to Orion , whose belt Fairfax pointed out to me earlier . |
| 30 | Conversely , if the Director had no powers of compulsion after charge then the issuing of yet another caution would make no difference . |