Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been otherwise " in BNC.
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| 1 | A further complexity in the comparison between Locke and the Aristotelians is that their ‘ opinion ’ concerns contingencies , things which are so , but which might have been otherwise . |
| 2 | To suggest that things might have been otherwise had important individuals or groups behaved differently is to ignore the situation within which they were acting , their perceptions of it and the traditions within which their outlook had been formed . |
| 3 | And if it is your , your view that y y your , your organs may be used in , in advance , and if that 's known to your relatives it 'll make a very very difficult time for them a great deal less difficult than it might have been otherwise . |
| 4 | Had he merely handed the delivery order to G for return to A , the decision might have been otherwise , but by endorsing it to G he had gone far beyond what was necessary to secure the return of it to A. |
| 5 | Strictly speaking , there can be no ‘ knowledge ’ of things that are so , but that could have been otherwise . |
| 6 | It is arbitrary in that the rules ( consciously followed or not ) in accordance with which this behaviour is produced , could have been otherwise , while yet serving the same communicative purpose . |
| 7 | The designation of such events as ‘ accidents ’ implies , as this statement makes clear , that things could have been otherwise . |
| 8 | Such parents know that it is something they have been socialised into by a segregated society , and that things could have been otherwise : that they ought to be otherwise ( It 's not fair … ’ ) . |
| 9 | It is difficult to see how at that point in history it could have been otherwise . |
| 10 | The result may have been otherwise had the hirers received previous notice of their obligation to insure which , of course , invites scrutiny of the issue relating to incorporation of terms ( see Olley v Marlborough Court [ 1949 ] 1 KB 532 ) . |
| 11 | Mrs Thatcher 's veto against putting the pound in the ERM has obliged Mr Lawson to set interest rates higher than would have been otherwise necessary to sustain sterling and , some economists think , to beat inflation . |
| 12 | If the instructions given by Mr. Tucker to the Burnham sub-branch had been carried out , my answer would have been otherwise . |
| 13 | Had they done that we have little doubt that the tribunal decision would have been otherwise than it was . ’ |
| 14 | Lord Denning said that the result would have been otherwise if the plaintiff had been e.g. hit in the eye by a shot from a negligent sportsman . |
| 15 | It would have been otherwise if he had covenanted to paint in the quarter " preceding the expiry or sooner determination of the said term " . |
| 16 | The decision would have been otherwise if no value had been assigned , as in the Irish Supreme Court decision in Flynn v Mackin [ 1974 ] IR 101 . |
| 17 | There are suggestions in the judgment that the decision would have been otherwise had the buyer been a property speculator . |
| 18 | Had it I seen that there was someone sleeping in the bed my course of action would have been otherwise . |