Example sentences of "otherwise have [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 2 ) An occurrence to which this section applies is one which — ( a ) affected either parent of the child in his or her ability to have a normal , healthy child ; or ( b ) affected the mother during her pregnancy , or affected her or the child in the course of its birth , so that the child is born with disabilities which would not otherwise have been present . |
| 2 | The use of aisles permitted the erection of a much wider building than would otherwise have been possible . |
| 3 | This has helped it manage the recession more successfully than would otherwise have been possible . |
| 4 | In 1991 it was therefore able to produce a far more comprehensive interim report for consultation purposes than would otherwise have been possible . |
| 5 | Each exact and firm handling of a narrow issue , however , helps towards treating broader issues , in which that narrow issue is contained , more exactly than would otherwise have been possible . |
| 6 | Thus , the Scottish Law Commission in para 5:23 of their Memorandum 25 , observed that s62(4) : … is of importance since the introduction of the rule that property in sale might pass without delivery would otherwise have been possible by resort to transactions in the form of sale to circumvent the rule that a security over moveables may not generally be constituted without transfer to them . |
| 7 | As the political assimilative into which were absorbed the opinions , convictions and energies which would otherwise have been available to impel Owenism and so to maximise its chances of attaining its goal , industrial democracy , the struggle to secure the passage of the Reform Bill demands attention . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | On 16 October 1991 , after a hearing in chambers to consider wasted costs after the jury in a criminal trial had been discharged and a retrial ordered , Judge MacRae made an order against the appellant , H. , a barrister who had acted as defence counsel at the trial , disallowing ‘ such part of the brief fee which would otherwise have been payable on the initial trial as exceeds what would be the proper enhanced refresher for the retrial … ’ under the provisions of section 19A(1) of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 , as inserted by section 111 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 . |
| 10 | Eventually , when this somewhat bizarre meeting ended , the judge made an order by which he purported to ‘ disallow such part of the brief fee which would otherwise have been payable on the [ partial ] trial as exceeds what would be the proper enhanced refresher for the retrial . ’ |
| 11 | Gaelic football attracts many that might otherwise have been useful to rugby . |
| 12 | Such ritual brings no hope , and it diverts to barrenness emotions which might otherwise have been fruitful . |
| 13 | Graduated separatism creates a space where women and girls can be free from the burden of men and their persistent sexism long enough to gain confidence and a skill , which would otherwise have been impossible . |
| 14 | These lent a world-weary cast to a face that might otherwise have been babyish . |
| 15 | If the application is urgent , eg for a non-molestation injunction under the Domestic Violence and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1976 and there is no judge sitting , the court office will say at what court there is a judge and the application may be made and heard at that court , but the more usual practice is for the application itself to be made in the court which would otherwise have been appropriate , with the papers and order being sent back to that court after the hearing . |
| 16 | From being an additional safeguard for those already arrested , the necessity principle becomes , in the hands of the Home Office , the basis of a separate and quite independent set of criteria justifying arrests that would otherwise have been unlawful . |
| 17 | There is no one better at persuading people to do things they might not otherwise have been inclined to do . |
| 18 | The fact that the directors ' discretion is not reviewable , therefore , means in short that the section is likely to have little causative impact : it does not compel the directors to do anything they would not otherwise have been inclined to do . |
| 19 | in normal everyday things which I would n't otherwise have been aware of , and he 's been someone to have arguments with about science , and it 's nice to have someone who understands what you 're going on about . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He has certainly demonstrated that he is a ‘ draw ’ : there must already be some 250 Conservative MPs in his debt for turning out an audience at least double that which they would otherwise have been able to collect . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Newco can then acquire the whole of the issued share capital of Target which management would not otherwise have been able to afford , provided the underlying profitability of Target is sufficient to finance Newco 's debt and share capital structure . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In order to evaluate whether the enhanced home support of the action scheme was successful in sustaining at home some people who would otherwise have been likely to enter institutional care , it was necessary for the action to take place in a prescribed geographical area , so that an equivalent , matched area could become a control area . |
| 27 | When it does work , lifelong friendships can be forged with those you might never otherwise have been likely to meet . |
| 28 | Both writers are primarily interested in the ontological and epistemological questions raised by the Catholic view of God , and both found in nervous tension a justification for modest technical experimentation as well as a tool for exploring aspects of reality which would otherwise have been difficult to treat outside the context of philosophical discourse . |
| 29 | Among the extra work which required a special piece of plant to be brought onto the site for one week and then returned 200 miles , there must be some extra work which just happens to be within the scope of a piece of plant which is already on site which would otherwise have been idle during the week in question . |
| 30 | 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 . |