Example sentences of "[conj] that would [verb] [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 It 's lucky I was n't in the water then floating , cos that would 've been dangerous with that boat going past .
8 They could have sent me to prison for two years but that would have been political suicide . ’
9 Athelstan felt like refusing , but that would have been churlish .
10 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 . ’
11 Yeah , because that would 've been ideal .
12 ( Though that would have been late , late , late . )
13 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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