Example sentences of "otherwise would have " in BNC.
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| 1 | It came as a relief for Eurotunnel , which otherwise would have needed to redesign the tunnel trains , causing delays in delivery . |
| 2 | It had opened the door to closer collaboration in the nuclear field , bringing substantial savings in research and development costs , and enabling Britain to retain and constantly modernize her independent nuclear deterrent in ways that otherwise would have been beyond her economic means . |
| 3 | After 1933 , too , the ferocious personal enmities and political conflicts within the Nazi élite , which otherwise would have torn the system apart , were resolved only in Hitler 's own charismatic authority — in his indisputable position as the base of Nazism 's popular legitimacy and the embodiment of Nazism 's ‘ idea ’ . |
| 4 | It had been delivered as she paid her daily visit to the Casa Guidi or otherwise would have languished at the post office , returned as unclaimed . |
| 5 | The victory of Gothic architecture showed that Nonconformity had kept pace with the spirit of the times ; to have done otherwise would have turned them back into hole-and-corner chapels appealing , like the Quakers with their simple meeting-houses , to ‘ men and women of a certain temper ’ . |
| 6 | As she was already walking , she did more work in standing than she otherwise would have , to promote the feeling of taking weight through her left leg while keeping her spasticity under control . |
| 7 | Her sexual frustration and jealousy leads her to destroy the hedonistic , deceitful Sapphire who otherwise would have become her sister-in-law . |
| 8 | It was flat , and having been open for only fifteen years , was not criss-crossed with sewers , gas and water pipes which otherwise would have required costly re-location . |
| 9 | It is sometimes advantageous to cease continually pushing onwards ; by stopping one has time to relax and see what otherwise would have been missed , the colours of the machair , wild poppies , buttercups , clovers , yellow rattle , eyebrights and even common ragwort , a visit to Northton , the smell of peat fires , a silent deserted main street , an antiquated petrol pump , a seized up old tractor , overgrown gardens , derelict corrugated iron roofed buildings and one shop that was a shop no more , signs suggestive of better , more affluent times . |
| 10 | It seems likely that in every case , perhaps after much agonizing , they succumbed to the decision to ban News International publications : to do otherwise would have risked contractual misconduct , strong moral and political pressure from both colleagues and employers , and ultimately , probably , dismissal . |
| 11 | To do otherwise would have been tantamount to branding yourself an obscene , inhuman monster , an outcast from civilized society . |
| 12 | There is no doubt that the early growth of trade unionism was a major influence in establishing the possibility of a cohesive bond between undertakings which otherwise would have been difficult because of their commercial rivalry . |
| 13 | When I put in darker clouds using a gel to keep the paint mixture stiff they lay gently on the damp paper , forming soft edges as they dried instead of the hard patches which otherwise would have destroyed the luminous envelope . |
| 14 | To have assumed otherwise would have been to raise a number of awkward questions . |
| 15 | She was set apart , by her overall and her laboratory and her marital status , which was lucky for her , as her position otherwise would have been truly grim . |
| 16 | The key question here — and it is not easy to answer — is whether Edinburgh , by employing Women in the period from the 1870s to the 1900s , was attracting more work than it otherwise would have from London and other publishers ; or whether it was merely managing to prevent the work leaving Edinburgh altogether for cheaper printing centres . |
| 17 | Section 239 gives the court a like power in respect of a transaction by a company which has put a creditor or guarantor into a better position in the event of the company going into insolvent liquidation than otherwise would have been the case . |
| 18 | Giving a ‘ preference ’ means doing anything which has the effect of putting one of the company 's creditors , or a guarantor for any of the company 's debts , into a better position in the event of the company going into liquidation than otherwise would have been the case : subsection ( 4 ) . |
| 19 | The survey vessel 's signal not only identified her , it also disarmed the platform-mounted weapons which otherwise would have reduced her to vapour . |
| 20 | If they accept a contractual obligation to provide care , they may find that voluntary sector care increasingly substitutes for services which otherwise would have been provided by statutory agencies ; they will thus become mainstream rather than supplying supplemental , additional services . |
| 21 | I had to presume some sort of sexual relationship between the girl and him — to do otherwise would have been naive ; but for all that there had been something much more daughterly , affectionately protective , than sexual in her glance back at him . |
| 22 | It added interest to a face that otherwise would have appeared too white , smooth and bland . |
| 23 | Much of the ‘ new academy ’ has comprised , as Bourdieu maintains , downwardly mobile bourgeois , ‘ poorly endowed with academic capital ’ , who otherwise would have been excluded from the academy . |
| 24 | One of my boroughs , Elmbridge , tried it , but there were objections from Labour groups connected with housing and now my tenants are in a much worse position than they otherwise would have been . |
| 25 | You know , nothing a very pleasant picture er o of a couple of horses , very attractive horses , but if you 're not a a horse enthusiast perhaps it has n't got quite the same impact , er , as it otherwise would have . |
| 26 | It does seem that the inspection provided a dimension in the appraisal process which otherwise would have been lacking . |
| 27 | To have attempted otherwise would have involved methodological problems given the nature of the responses that were received . |
| 28 | Decent , affordable public sector housing provides opportunities for wide ranges of people in our country and your government does nothing to promote the right to rent , the ability to get into decent housing where people otherwise would have no such chance . |