Example sentences of "not otherwise have [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 Eventually these clubs broadened into miniature " Unity Committees " , bringing together Labour and Communist intellectuals and middle-class people who would not otherwise have exchanged views in such an organized manner .
2 There are now tens of thousands of children playing who would not otherwise have played tennis .
3 When this happens , cells do things they would not otherwise have done , presumably because , after amputation , they find themselves in a changed environment .
4 They were not tricked into doing what they would not otherwise have done , they were tricked into doing what they wanted to do in that place and before witnesses and devices who can now speak of what happened .
5 The scheme was regarded as successful in encouraging victims to claim who would not otherwise have done so .
6 The extra places offered were matched , as far as possible , with the requirements of those seeking pupillage and has resulted in many pupils obtaining pupillage who would not otherwise have done so .
7 They were thus encouraged to stay long when they might not otherwise have done so .
8 The irony , of course , is that since a considerable proportion of these were bred for the purpose , a large number of animals would not otherwise have lived were they not destined to die prematurely .
9 If you take any wild animal and keep it in captivity ( I would have to say most wild animals ; some insects might be taken into captivity without any suffering , but if you take vertebrates into captivity there is certainly going to be suffering ) , sometimes the animals will die very quickly after being brought into captivity , and again there is often an effect on the functioning of the immune system because they often succumb to diseases which would not otherwise have killed them .
10 The project coordinator Sue Torrance believes this would be a serious loss to the local community , for it has reached people who might not otherwise have received help .
11 It could not otherwise have achieved its conciliatory aim .
12 Importantly , too , the use of a high style allowed Milton a voice he might not otherwise have achieved during the Restoration .
13 Thus large companies and boards of nationalised industries were provided with enormous financial assistance enabling ( or rather persuading ) them to base their reorganisation on designated development areas which in many cases they would not otherwise have chosen , for reasons of both private and public benefit when judged over the longer run [ Knight , 1974 ; Moore and Rhodes , 1973 ] .
14 That does not mean he would not otherwise have married a woman , in whom , according to his son , " he found an efficient substitute for his sister 's domestic management , and a helpmate ready to second all his exertions " .
15 I would just take a It seems to me that quite clearly that a new settlement in the A sixty four corridor south , would stimulate migration at levels which would not otherwise have taken place and that is the key objection to it .
16 Two-thirds of the new jobs created in the 1980s went to women , but more than half of them were part-time , and the Government 's Restart pushed many unemployed people into less productive , poorly paid , low-skilled jobs they would not otherwise have taken .
17 The acquisition of wrappers by him was , at least in many cases , of direct benefit to the Nestle Co. , and required expenditure by the acquirer which he might not otherwise have incurred .
18 It is very clever and shows journeys and interchanges you would not otherwise have thought of . ’
19 This was important , as in some stretches of the river Mr Cook 's customers might not otherwise have benefited from the remarkable views he had promised them .
20 However , this did serve to advertise the industry , create excitement , and generate a lot of early bookings that might not otherwise have come forward .
21 If the law of any country in which this policy operates , requires General Accident to settle a claim which we would not otherwise have paid , we reserve the right to recover this amount from you or from the person who incurred liability .
22 If the law of any country in which this policy operates , requires General Accident to settle a claim which we would not otherwise have paid , we reserve the right to recover this amount from you or from the person who incurred liability .
23 If the law of any country in which this policy covers you , requires General Accident to settle a claim which we would not otherwise have paid we reserve the right to recover this amount from you or from the person who incurred liability .
24 If the law of any country in which this policy covers you , requires General Accident to settle a claim which we would not otherwise have paid we reserve the right to recover this amount from you or from the person who incurred liability .
25 If the law of any country in which this policy covers you , requires General Accident to settle a claim which we would not otherwise have paid we reserve the right to recover this amount from you or from the person who incurred liability .
26 In such circumstances , the new Kinnock approach — as long as he can show that it is not irredeemably inflationary — might appear quite attractive to people who would not otherwise have considered voting Labour .
27 Bobby Hunt was one who accompanied Minton on his weekly tour of the galleries and who found himself reading books he might not otherwise have read .
28 If British Rail builds a railway line in South Wales by employing construction workers who would otherwise have been unemployed , the cost includes the wages of construction workers , but these do not represent a social cost if they would not otherwise have produced any goods .
29 Every increase in the price expected will , as a rule , induce some people who would not otherwise have produced anything , to produce a-little ; and those , who have produced something for the lower price , will produce more for the higher price .
30 At the same time , the adventure had also proved immensely informative , uncovering vast tracts of our civilisation 's past — and not just biblical — which we and our readers might not otherwise have had occasion to explore .
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