Example sentences of "otherwise might have " in BNC.
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| 1 | In her last term she won the Miss Clark Lawrence Award for service to the school : a special award , not necessarily given , ‘ for anyone who has done things that otherwise might have gone unsung ’ . |
| 2 | John Buddle , a mine inspector and owner 's agent with whom Davy had consulted , wrote to Davy on 1 June , 1816 : ‘ I am convinced that with the happy invention of the safe lamp large proportions of the coal mines of the empire will be rendered available , which otherwise might have remained inaccessible . ’ |
| 3 | That said , the Vet scene has charged his zest for running which otherwise might have been swallowed up in the 40-something concentration on family , career and mortgage . |
| 4 | It would be valuable , if people had the spare cash , to line damp rooms with some form of insulating material before wallpapering them : for want of that small capital outlay , they may spend more on frequent re-decoration than they otherwise might have saved : but since the outlay in papering a room three times a year is piecemeal , it is possible , while root-and-branch solutions to the problem are not . |
| 5 | Initially Verity Lambert was resistant to this change , only in retrospect agreeing this gave Susan 's character greater depth than otherwise might have been possible : |
| 6 | The Library of Congress has a computerised keyword index to books and recent periodical articles and this was an enormous help in locating materials that otherwise might have been overlooked . |
| 7 | The primary mechanism suggested for this relationship of war with advances in social welfare is political : that the demands of total war forced government to make concessions to organised labour and the working classes in general which otherwise might have taken much longer to achieve . |
| 8 | Jobs will be found in Harrogate as elsewhere , and if we 're thinking of lumping in the B one office use and the other B uses in with the manufacturing , I think it 's fair to say that office uses are going to be far denser in terms of number of jobs per hectare than manufacturing , and therefore the allocations may not seem to be as great as otherwise might have been demanded . |