Example sentences of "otherwise we would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rewards are confidently expected , otherwise we would abandon reading and do something else , but the rewards are unanalysed , unformulated , unexpressed , and perhaps often unexpressable . |
| 2 | This must still yield a finite minimum , for otherwise we would have a solution satisfying ( 8.1 ) and for all and with cost decreasing ( z increasing ) in . |
| 3 | ‘ Otherwise we would have given way to the big guy with the muscle to push and not to Joe Public . |
| 4 | We had to sail ( or rather motor ) the boat precisely along three straight line courses , changing from one to the next at exactly the right places otherwise we would have a most unpleasant encounter with Bogha nan Ramfhear . |
| 5 | Otherwise we would have not been able to tender . |
| 6 | ‘ Approval of these plans will enable us to retain and build on our existing workforce , which is what we want to do , otherwise we would have to find a completely new site , probably out of Wales , too far away for most of our existing employees . ’ |
| 7 | Jane and I are off to Italy — a photographic assignment — otherwise we would have held onto them a while longer . |
| 8 | Colour had crept unsteadily on to It 's pages , and the paper reported in its second birthday issue that ‘ hopes of a permanent 24-page It have had to be tempered with reality otherwise we would find ourselves expanding into debt . ’ |
| 9 | In ( 8.12 ) we assume that simple interest and not compound interest is used ( otherwise we would need to use ( 1 + r ) T ) and that carry costs in the cash market are proportional to price . |
| 10 | Directly into a drain , so we never s that 's why we did n't see it , because the water was actually pouring down a drain , so of course we did n't see the water lolling up the waterlogged ground , otherwise we 'd have spotted it earlier . |
| 11 | Otherwise we 'd have got blown away . |
| 12 | it was an hour late , which it was late enough for us to not to know if it was coming , so we had to go and get another P A , otherwise we 'd have gone to get , there was no other option . |
| 13 | Otherwise we 'd have taken the British Government to the court of human rights . |
| 14 | That 's what we thought otherwise we 'd have brought some . |
| 15 | Otherwise we 'd have heard what they were saying . |
| 16 | Well , I can understand the Labour Group wishing to bypass National Government if that Government were headed by Mister Kinnock , but without that particular incentive I do n't think that international negotiations should be taken by any organisation outside National Government , otherwise we 'd cease to be a nation . |