Example sentences of "[subord] they would [adv] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | For them , the cost is this anxiety , and the fact that ( because of the rate of charge on their credit obligations , which commonly is high ) they are poorer , in terms of what they can buy , than they would otherwise have been . |
| 2 | So in real terms , their attempt to buy off inflation through borrowing makes them poorer than they would otherwise have been . |
| 3 | VERs are designed to protect the domestic car industry , but critics argue that consumers suffer , as some are prevented from buying the car of their choice , and that the prices of Japanese cars are higher than they would otherwise have been , thus raising Japanese profit margins ( ie profit per car sold ) . |
| 4 | Lower cost , whether from raised efficiency or lower prices , look a certainty — the catch is , that can only mean lower than they would otherwise have been . |
| 5 | They have frozen child benefit for three years so that mothers and families are nearly £1 billion worse off than they would otherwise have been . |
| 6 | But both authors recognise that experience in office in the coalition government had made the Labour leaders more cautious than they would otherwise have been : Dr Marwick comments that ‘ Middle-class radicalism and official trade unionism were much stronger influences than left-wing Socialism ’ , and Dr Addison speaks of an ‘ Attlee consensus ’ to which the Conservatives , when they returned to office in 1951 , also subscribed . |
| 7 | On the other hand , the charting options within the spreadsheet function in Works are robust and simple to operate , with the result that graphics for analysis of publication data are much better than they would otherwise have been . |
| 8 | There is a suggestion that farmers were inclined to discriminate in favour of married labourers , since they would otherwise have been a greater burden on the parish rate of which the farmers were the main payers . |
| 9 | But , more than that , his predilection for Neath players deprived the club of their own best talent so that when they would otherwise have been training for the league , instead they were training for the Five Nations Championship . |
| 10 | Most people manage to avoid these areas like the plague , though they would n't have been bothered by stagediving at all — so I 'm afraid that Wiz 's well-intentioned argument that people can go near the front when there are no stagedivers fails . |
| 11 | Exotic animals would probably have been rarities in the British arenae and even then used only for exhibition , as they would presumably have been too expensive to have suffered damage . |