Example sentences of "would not [be] [vb pp] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Sisulu had a short meeting at her home yesterday with Winnie Mandela , who said afterwards that her husband , Nelson Mandela , would not be freed this year . |
| 2 | Records retrieved only under strong stems would not be given high weight . |
| 3 | Nothing was further from my thoughts ; my reason would be simply enjoyment , and if it was the most commonplace thing to do my delight would not be decreased one bit . |
| 4 | Parry gave an undertaking that pay television would not be introduced next season . |
| 5 | And when he would not be persuaded that Rain had no more for him , she mentioned Georgie and Joey and wished she could be aboard Perfidia when Berg cornered them , as he surely would . |
| 6 | He immediately recognised the immense potential for the story but was faced with a major problem : the press conference was arranged for 23 March and the next morning was Good Friday — his paper would not be published that day . |
| 7 | He is the populariser and jack of all trades par excellence , intensely vulnerable to the scorn of the experts , and to people who would n't be seen dead reading the kind of book that is piled high in airport bookshops . |
| 8 | I would n't be paid this sort of money if I was a fraud . |
| 9 | thank you um , it will be quick ah one of the things which caused distress last year was the reduction in the for sixth formers and I was sorry to see that it would n't be restored this time . |