Example sentences of "[pron] would not be [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lodging-houses these , not of the ruthlessly spotless kind kept by Sairellen Thackray but terrifying places — even to Cara — where men and women slept twenty or thirty together on whatever mattresses or bundles of rags had been thrown down on the rotting floor , tramps , drunkards , lechers , syphilitics , crude young whores , wan little virgins turned out of charity-schools who would not be virgins in the morning , packed side by side in the dark and in a horrible proximity which made Cara shudder . |
| 2 | I mean to say , I told him we would n't be enemies once it was all over . |
| 3 | ‘ But we would n't be nuisances ! ’ exclaimed Linda indignantly . |
| 4 | Probably there would n't be words sufficient to express the outrage . |
| 5 | There would n't be photos of him if he had . |
| 6 | To put it simply : I can never have just one thought about the spectacles , and if it could be truly said that I was only able to entertain , say , two or ten thoughts about them — if my thinking consisted of discrete , countable thoughts — then they would not be thoughts at all . |
| 7 | Thus , if an organisation chooses not to recognise its e-mail messages as having formal record status and its procedures accurately reflect this , then they would not be records and vice versa . |
| 8 | It is time that players realised that if their club had not given them their chance they would not be internationals . |
| 9 | Though they are not much good on paper — if they were they would not be generals — they can not resist the squat little volumes . |
| 10 | They want to feel that they are making a reasonable living , though they would n't be teachers if they wanted to be rich . |
| 11 | If they were not they would n't be rocks , they would be sand . |
| 12 | TOM : But they would n't be trees . |
| 13 | and towards the end of the film , ’ If ( transexuals ) were normal , they would n't be transexuals . ’ |