Example sentences of "otherwise [vb infin] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plan to limit entitlement under the green form scheme may result in detained people who would otherwise have secured a discharge remaining on a section . |
| 2 | Tom Horrocks , who might otherwise have furnished a convenient buffer , had been drawn to the kitchen by the smell of newly baked bread , and was doubtless flirting disgracefully with Tilly and the kitchen-maids . |
| 3 | They say the airlift has brought new hope to people who would otherwise have faced a bleak future . |
| 4 | Also it would be a gesture towards the Christian believers in the congregation , who might otherwise have felt a little cheated . |
| 5 | This will depend whether ( a ) the Nissan cars are for export to the EC , ( b ) they are sold in the UK to customers who would otherwise have purchased an imported car or ( c ) they are sold in the UK to customers who would otherwise have bought a car produced in the UK by one of the other UK manufacturers . |
| 6 | That does not mean he would not otherwise have married a woman , in whom , according to his son , " he found an efficient substitute for his sister 's domestic management , and a helpmate ready to second all his exertions " . |
| 7 | Also by competing it risks cannibalising its own best profit sources : IBM selling an AS/400 mini is a triumph if the buyer would otherwise have chosen a DEC VAX , but a financial disaster for IBM if it replaces an IBM mainframe . |
| 8 | Good auditors have used the right when they would otherwise have had a duty anyway … |
| 9 | But unions were in fact composed of and certainly led by such men , though the bourgeois mythology saw them as mobs of the stupid and misled , instigated by agitators who could not otherwise have earned a comfortable living . |