Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] [conj] would [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We did n't make a sale , though we did make contacts that would n't have been available to us otherwise . |
| 2 | There was no space for two small children or one transversely-mounted adult , not a trace of walnut , and if you wanted to listen to a radio in a Cobra you 'd have needed speakers that would n't have disgraced a heavy-metal band . |
| 3 | They needed clothes that would not get torn in a fight , which would stay pressed and neat and which would identify them in a crowd . |
| 4 | He is one of the jewels of radio , a playwright who understands the medium , but who does n't use radio merely as a way of playing tricks that would n't work on stage or television . |
| 5 | But though her mouth opened it was a silent entreaty and all she seemed able to do was cling to the top of her cage near where branches of trees hung and vainly try to say words that would not come . |
| 6 | In return for the unions ' consent formally to acknowledge managements ' prerogatives of decision-making at plant level , employers would recognise the right of workers to join unions and would not discriminate against them for doing so . |