Example sentences of "[conj] would otherwise have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By spending three million pounds diversifying in this way he hopes not only to create new employment , but also to save buildings that would otherwise have fallen into disrepair . |
| 2 | This attitude was bitterly criticized by republican politicians who felt that he had given an enormous fillip to a rebellion that would otherwise have run out of steam . |
| 3 | The organisers used studio spaces that would otherwise have remained empty throughout the summer holidays . |
| 4 | To deal with this , a group of merchants who wanted to trade in a particular part of the world would ask the monarch for a charter allowing them a monopoly of bringing goods from their chosen region into England , giving them rights to defend themselves against pirates and bandits with their own armed force , and letting them settle legal problems that would otherwise have to wait years until they got back to England . |
| 5 | Important though this literature is , the main purpose of later sections is to isolate as far as is generally possible the impact of the government budget on the Lorenz curve that would otherwise have obtained , and then to consider proposals that are more closely tied to the poverty literature . |
| 6 | What I 'm suggesting is that it ought to be possible to design an inner northern relief road with an appropriate junction and with appropriate traffic managements in the centre of Harrogate so that you can encourage a significant proportion of the traffic that would otherwise have used the western relief road to divert to the southern bypass and inner relief road . |
| 7 | The milk ration for children was increased specifically to compensate for the nutritional shortfall in school meals that would otherwise have occurred ; civil servants realised there would be a public outcry if the meat reduction took place and nothing was done to make up for it . |
| 8 | Thus in prairie dogs fed a lithogenic diet , aspirin inhibits mucus glycoprotein secretion by the gall bladder , cholesterol microcrystal formation , and the development of gall stones that would otherwise have occurred . |
| 9 | First , by emphasizing that preferences are displaced away somewhat from the familiar , it is possible to explain two facets of the data from humans that would otherwise have seemed incompatible . |
| 10 | Later , a second change permitted these tax benefits to be offset against income that would otherwise have attracted higher rates of tax . |
| 11 | " We have brought new roads , railways and the telegraph to this backward corner of the globe that would otherwise have continued to languish in the toils of an unprogressive past . |
| 12 | He afterwards ‘ found the ball flattened that would otherwise have passed through his heart ’ ; the prayer-book had saved him . |
| 13 | Separation of the upper third of the continental crust on a plate has the effect of reducing the overall buoyancy of the subducted crust by nearly one-half , and this in turn allows more subduction than would otherwise have occurred . |
| 14 | Their imprimatur also gave the elements which could be interpreted as letting the auditors off the hook , such as the question of lessening liability exposure , more credibility than would otherwise have happened had they been drafted by auditors . |
| 15 | He saved much that had been thrown away as rubbish , and would otherwise have perished without trace . |