Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] [be] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 This is not simple mimicry , which would only entail being the same bright colour as a distasteful species .
2 The most important would obviously have been the particular use of a vessel in the pantry or kitchen , on the dining table , or for drinking .
3 There was nothing to suggest that had the evidence been excluded that result would necessarily have been the same .
4 If he had n't brought it up , she said resentfully again and again , everything would still have been the same .
5 At the time of Fahreddin Acemi 's becoming Mufti-perhaps in 844/1440–1 on Molla Yegan 's resigning his posts , but in any case not later than 848/1444 the Darulhadis would probably have been the one important medrese in Edirne founded by the reigning sultan , Murad II , since his other complex including a medrese , the Uc Serefeli , though begun in 841/1438 , was not completed until 851/1447 .
6 Well I , I 'm not sure of , here again he 's making another turn is n't he and er you 're going back to as I say , what would probably have been the lesser of two evils .
7 This for Baldwin would surely have been the worst of both worlds .
8 Oxford , the scholarship , would then have been the defining influence , become the place in which he could have planted his flag and redrawn himself .
9 Pentium is the name Intel Corp has chosen for what would otherwise have been the 80586 microprocessor , the company announced last week : reason is that it did not think it would be permitted to claim 586 as a trade mark .
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