Example sentences of "otherwise they would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the party did not follow this line ; otherwise they would have opposed independence for the more advanced Poland , Finland , the Baltic States and the Ukraine , and supported it only for the more backward minorities . |
| 2 | When you just think , the number of houses , not everybody can go through that , cos otherwise they would have done something about it . |
| 3 | Otherwise they would have died out long ago . |
| 4 | Cocker 's scepticism was not typical of the sentiments expressed on that day : Ald. McNaughtan , the Tramway Committee Chairman , in laying the first rail said that Blackpool 's delay in constructing a tramway was fortuitous , otherwise they would have had horses or steam , ‘ instead of nature 's more wonderful , immense and mysterious agency — electricity ’ . |
| 5 | Harvard trainees worked cheerfully on this understanding , whereas otherwise they would have slackened . |
| 6 | Otherwise they 'd have built on it or summat like that you see . |
| 7 | Then , they 'd never read their chart books , otherwise they 'd have known that the blues has always provided record companies with a regular and often low-cost source of income . |
| 8 | Otherwise they 'd have had had |