Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [pron] [modal v] otherwise [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though interest rates have also been very high indeed , the support which North Sea oil has given sterling has perhaps tended to stop them rising so high as they might otherwise have done . |
| 2 | The restored importance of indirect taxes , whatever its source , must , in the context of our earlier analysis , have made the UK tax system less progressive than it would otherwise have been . |
| 3 | The movement towards indirect taxation has therefore made the UK tax system less progressive than it would otherwise have been . |
| 4 | But both authors recognise that experience in office in the coalition government had made the Labour leaders more cautious than they would otherwise have been : Dr Marwick comments that ‘ Middle-class radicalism and official trade unionism were much stronger influences than left-wing Socialism ’ , and Dr Addison speaks of an ‘ Attlee consensus ’ to which the Conservatives , when they returned to office in 1951 , also subscribed . |
| 5 | There had been a morning of heavy rain before the event and this must have reduced the expected numbers present and made it more subdued than it might otherwise have been . |
| 6 | There was also sadly a degree of controversy with regard to some records , making the work less valuable than it might otherwise have been . |
| 7 | Thus it seems likely that health authorities were encouraged to be generous in the allocation of budgets , that fundholders were less concerned than they might otherwise have been about the need to stay within strict cash limits , and that non-fundholders were allowed greater freedom of referral than might have been anticipated . |
| 8 | The very existence of French appellate jurisdiction over the duchy clearly made Plantagenet rule potentially more difficult than it would otherwise have been . |
| 9 | What the chapel and the parish managed to ensure , in the last analysis , was that Betty 's last few years were less harrowing than they might otherwise have been . |
| 10 | After the initiation of Clelia , she was to Clara less Surprising than she might otherwise have been , for the resemblance between mother and daughter was marked : the features were the same , though worn and lined by grooves deeper than mere wrinkles : the set of the conscious , curious head was the same , and the hair was the same , though streaked with white , and hanging with the benefits of expense , as well as of style . |
| 11 | His painstakingly slow approach is necessary because he might otherwise frighten off the smaller females . |
| 12 | Later , ashamed , Two-Dogs would picket screenings of the films he had appeared in , although he admitted in private that many times as a young man he had eaten well at a movie commissary when he would otherwise have starved . |