Example sentences of "might otherwise " in BNC.
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| 1 | He will be able to remind you of beneficiaries you might otherwise forget . |
| 2 | It served to make the Finnish detective rather sharper than he might otherwise have been . |
| 3 | This allowed BR to concentrate all its non-bulk freight activities under one organisation , and eliminated the counter-productive competition which might otherwise occur between Freightliner and the conventional wagonload ( ie Speedlink ) network . |
| 4 | The fear among many Muslim Lebanese , who might otherwise favour the departure of the Syrians , is that they would leave behind a power vacuum to be filled by warlords on both sides of the confessional divide . |
| 5 | This can reduce the tax liability on the estate , and can mean that money which might otherwise go to the taxman will be used instead to support a worthwhile cause of your choosing . |
| 6 | Such ritual brings no hope , and it diverts to barrenness emotions which might otherwise have been fruitful . |
| 7 | In his usual way , as soon as the film started , George begin to give me a run down on the technical assets I might otherwise be missing . |
| 8 | A domestic market that becomes part of an international market is going to be subjected to the effects of changes which might otherwise have been more slow in coming — or would n't have immediately affected it . |
| 9 | The first practice probably encouraged the retention of many old and large flail-threshing barns which might otherwise have fallen into disuse , inviting demolition . |
| 10 | Similarly , the hero of The Foreman Went To France ( 1941 , Somewhere in France in US ) has to overcome managerial indifference and bureaucratic obstruction to cross the Channel and recover machines that might otherwise fall into the hands of the Germans . |
| 11 | I have never had any qualms about refusing to fund a cause I do not support , but am glad to have the chance to give to good causes I might otherwise have missed . |
| 12 | The ‘ state of war ’ declaration clouded what might otherwise have been a clear-cut case of American aggression and gave the White House the makings of a case under international law . |
| 13 | We always have a boiled ham on the bone in our delicatessen counter and it is without doubt the single main item responsible for drawing people into the shop who might otherwise be content to look through the window . |
| 14 | ( In fact , Mr Duroselle seems almost to believe that the worst aspect of colonialism was the way it divided European nations that might otherwise have come together . ) |
| 15 | The fact that the Labour Party did not lead public opinion as strongly as it might have done meant that the National government had an easier ride than it might otherwise have expected . |
| 16 | A further paternalistic argument is that a law restricting consent helps to protect individual citizens from themselves by counteracting some of the social pressures and shame which might otherwise occur . |
| 17 | Frankie had learned to prepare in advance for those days and nights when he might otherwise go hungry . |
| 18 | Other coins made from the same different die can often be found , thus establishing a chain of die links between objects which might otherwise display no close similarities . |
| 19 | He made a similar point about a rise in salary for municipal employees : there was no possibility of seriously debating that unless the local Assembly knew what they might otherwise spend the money on , and what the total budget for the municipalities was — and information on both points was not forthcoming . |
| 20 | Sciagraphy has grown as a convention used by architects and engineers because it can be used to reveal detail in forms that might otherwise be lost in orthographic linear projections . |
| 21 | But the Protestant Elizabeth , the queen whom he thought he was flattering by likening her to Deborah ( the prophetess who , with the help of the Lord , saved Israel from the Canaanites ) , was never to forgive him , and this ensured that his role in the years of success for the Scottish Protestants after 1560 was less than it might otherwise have been . |
| 22 | The Colonel put it to Elisabeth that in the autumn of life , simple companionship was as much as one might expect , that a community of interests and a desire to see one 's partner pleased could turn what might otherwise be a lonely existence into well-being . |
| 23 | Dwarf-bean bushes grew contentedly beside cabbages , overlooked by climbing nasturtiums , grown to attract the insects that might otherwise attack the vegetables . |
| 24 | And the Bank of England 's ease in selling so many gilt stocks early yesterday is a reminder of just how great the budget deficit remains and how much more public borrowing must follow — taking cash that might otherwise have bought shares . |
| 25 | This cultural expression is used both as a safety-value of light , communal entertainment in situations which might otherwise be tense , boring and/or tedious , and also as a tool of protest in itself with which to unify and cement the groups ' sense of identity and purpose . |
| 26 | So it would seem that children may assist one parent to care for the other who might otherwise go into a home , but apart from this they have to residential homes for some while caring for and thus avoiding the admission of others , and that these two influences cancel each other out in the statistics . |
| 27 | There was also sadly a degree of controversy with regard to some records , making the work less valuable than it might otherwise have been . |
| 28 | Now , instead of her clients coming to her , she had to walk the streets displaying her attractions ; perhaps luring to depravity men who might otherwise have been content to dream and wonder . |
| 29 | In the absence of local employment alternatives which might otherwise have developed , it made between one-third and one-half of the Palestinian work-force dependent for its livelihood upon employment by Israeli enterprises . |
| 30 | According to the theories of associative learning presented in Chapter 1 , certain conditions of training ( roughly , those in which the CS predicts the omission of a US that might otherwise be expected to occur ) allow the formation of an inhibitory CS-US link . |