Example sentences of "[conj] that [vb mod] have [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1	In his second day of evidence before Sheriff Brian Lockhart , he said that that would have been good management .
2	‘ And that would have been ironic , would n't it , now he 's been posted back to HQ .
3	Yeah , and then you had three and then you made one and to there , and that would have been right .
4	I mean it could have been different it could have got out of control and then everybody would have turned and pointed a finger and that would have been awful .
5	An inch lower and that would have been fatal . ’
6	If we 'd lost we could have gone bottom of the table and that would have been disastrous for a club like Everton .
7	says Clare about his native Helpston in the years after its enclosure , and that must have been true of most parishes that underwent the great transformation .
8	Uncle was much more the happy-go-lucky extrovert whereas Daddy was shy and reserved , but that may have been due in part , at least , to the burdens he carried .
9	The woman next to Mr pugh seemed to be in tears , but that might have been due to the compost .
10	They could have sent me to prison for two years but that would have been political suicide . ’
11	Athelstan felt like refusing , but that would have been churlish .
12	Allison later told Mark : ‘ My first reaction when you told me about your work was to withdraw , and let you have all the credit , but that would have been Quixotic . ’
13	A strong creature and determined in his denials , but that should have been short-lived .
14	And there was a small , uncomfortable silence , or so Preston imagined , and a chill in the air , but that could have been real .
15	( Though that would have been late , late , late . )
16	My inclination was to decline , but as that would have been discourteous in the extreme to Wilson , for whom I then had enormous respect , I agreed to see him .

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