Example sentences of "which otherwise would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It came as a relief for Eurotunnel , which otherwise would have needed to redesign the tunnel trains , causing delays in delivery . |
| 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 | The survey vessel 's signal not only identified her , it also disarmed the platform-mounted weapons which otherwise would have reduced her to vapour . |
| 5 | 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 . |