Example sentences of "might otherwise [verb] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gaelic football attracts many that might otherwise have been useful to rugby . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | These lent a world-weary cast to a face that might otherwise have been babyish . |
| 4 | Such ritual brings no hope , and it diverts to barrenness emotions which might otherwise have been fruitful . |
| 5 | The case shows how failure to resist such re-enactment increases the teacher 's difficulty , as it is detrimental to the help he might otherwise have been able to offer . |
| 6 | I am grateful for that because it enables me to provide him with a fuller response on those points than I might otherwise have been able to do . |
| 7 | If you 're going to have to find a much larger area you have to spread your net wider to find more and more sites for development which you might otherwise have been able to save from development , and there will an environmental cost , a cost to the quality of life of people living nearby because sites you might not wish to have developed must be included to find the target figure of industrial development . |
| 8 | For the next week I thought long and hard about undertaking an interview with the Queen Mother which would cover every aspect of her life but the great historical event which had changed it for ever ; which had propelled her and her husband to the throne , had made happy and glorious a reign which might otherwise have been disastrous , yet which was tragically cut short by illness and death , and which in the long run had made her far and away the most loved of all the members of the Royal Family . |