Example sentences of "otherwise [not/n't] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | There was nothing to suggest the reduction in capital was brought about with the deliberate intention to obtain legal aid to which he would otherwise not be elegible . |
| 3 | With sufficient funds to travel to many active libraries , it enables the British Library Information Officer for User Education to make more personal contact , and thus frequently acquire information that would otherwise not be volunteered or made public . |
| 4 | It would also be an appropriate time to institute similar legislation to that of the US government in order to keep company profits stable , thereby maintaining research levels , and at the same time ensure that people may benefit from drugs that would otherwise not be available because they were not profitable to produce . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Thank you very much well it 's always a pleasure to hear of about the Seamanship Foundation and I 'm sure that , as you might be saying , and er the need for the foundation 's fundraising will be rather heightened this year as a result of last year 's drop but I 'm equally sure that you will get a tremendous amount of support from the members and on that note which I think is er also is an important method of concentrating our priorities and on the basis of we 're extremely lucky to be able to pursue a really very enjoyable pastime with relatively few problems and that if we can get those opportunities to many more , who would otherwise not be able to enjoy and in fact frequently do n't get to enjoy any other pastime , we should endeavour to do so and consider ourselves lucky that we can . |
| 11 | 4 Entry The right for the Tenant and all persons expressly or by implication authorised by the Tenant to enter upon other parts of the Centre and ( if any ) the Adjoining Property to carry out works to the Premises where such works would otherwise not be possible , or may be possible but rendered more expensive than they would otherwise be if this right was available The problem of access over a neighbour 's land has been greatly alleviated by the passage of the Access to Neighbouring Land Act 1992 which sets out a procedure whereby a person may obtain a court order permitting access to a neighbour 's property in order to carry out works to protect , repair or maintain their property in circumstances where the neighbour refuses consent to such access . |
| 12 | Royal Ascot would otherwise not be able to go ahead next Tuesday unless huge crowd restrictions were introduced . |