Example sentences of "which [vb mod] otherwise not be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exclusive licence agreements ( whether of patented goods , trademarks or other intellectual property interests ) which allow new markets to be penetrated or new products to be licensed , which may otherwise not be so exploited , to be exploited or launched |
| 2 | This kind of repetition serves to consolidate the main message of the text ( which may otherwise not be sufficiently evident ) , and can also conveniently serve the ends ( through musical restatement ) of giving a strong , coherent musical form . |
| 3 | On the other hand , there may be real value in divergence of approach not only in terms of flexibility , but also in encouraging experimentation which may lead to overall advances being made , which might otherwise not be possible . |
| 4 | Aid is now essential to Africa as any kind of external finance is essential : it is a means of paying for imports which would otherwise not be bought , about half of which are capital goods necessary for the maintenance of assets , badly depreciated after years of neglect . |
| 5 | It was argued that it allows litigation which would otherwise not be brought , that the lawyers involved act more conscientiously on behalf of their client because of the mutual financial interests , and that it is a simpler method of payment . |
| 6 | Actually , the use of this final pronominal element is quite transparently a way to regain attributive status for the adjective which precedes it , and its use with certain adjectives ( to be introduced below ) which do not genuinely occur in predicative position is thus much more significant than Bolinger allows for , showing that there are values attached to attributive status which are more important than mere position in the sentence relative to the verb , and that speakers will even seek to conform to these by devising an attributive construction which would otherwise not be called for . |