Example sentences of "[pron] that [vb mod] [verb] be " in BNC.

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1 I saw that there were a few patches of shadow around me that could have been crammed with evil doers .
2 There was not one face amongst them that would have been known by the populace at large .
3 They ended sitting high above the lough sipping from a bottle of John Powers , gazing at the lights of a house below them that could have been anybody 's .
4 They should put that fight into a computer 'cos I do n't think there will be a fight to compete with what that would have been . ’
5 His father had taught him that these must be suppressed , but now that the old attorney was dead Paul felt free to become himself ; what that might mean was not yet clear to him .
6 ‘ I ca n't imagine what that must have been like , ’ she called after him .
7 Yeah erm one thing , you were a little bit nervous to start with and what that can do is to give you a tendency to piggyback questions , is that something you 're aware of ?
8 This was probably such an advance that it completely replaced and earlier form of life , whatever that may have been .
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