Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [pron] [vb mod] have found " in BNC.

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1 The intensely provincial , Catholic and Nationalist environment within which the DHAC operated was not conducive to its kind of class-based , quasi-Marxist political rhetoric which would , ten years earlier , probably have unleashed a backlash that it would have found difficult to survive ; even the mild leftism of Stephen McGonagle had in the past made him an object of suspicion among Derry Catholics .
2 Travis straightened from one last study of the map , tucking it inside his shirt and pocketing a compass that he must have found on the plane too .
3 He slept intermittently , amused by the thought that he might have found it easier to rest in a damp , muddy trench with rats and cockroaches for companions .
4 All along that awful journey I 'd been tortured by the thought that someone might have found and moved the dinghy and that I would be trapped in this hellish marsh .
5 As he progressed there is little doubt that he would have found his path increasingly hampered by obstacles .
6 That does not excuse the fact that I ought to have found out otherwise . ’
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