Example sentences of "otherwise have [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom Horrocks , who might otherwise have furnished a convenient buffer , had been drawn to the kitchen by the smell of newly baked bread , and was doubtless flirting disgracefully with Tilly and the kitchen-maids . |
| 2 | They say the airlift has brought new hope to people who would otherwise have faced a bleak future . |
| 3 | This will depend whether ( a ) the Nissan cars are for export to the EC , ( b ) they are sold in the UK to customers who would otherwise have purchased an imported car or ( c ) they are sold in the UK to customers who would otherwise have bought a car produced in the UK by one of the other UK manufacturers . |
| 4 | What I 'm suggesting is that it ought to be possible to design an inner northern relief road with an appropriate junction and with appropriate traffic managements in the centre of Harrogate so that you can encourage a significant proportion of the traffic that would otherwise have used the western relief road to divert to the southern bypass and inner relief road . |
| 5 | The so-called Helsinki warning , also dismissed as unreliable ( and apparently for better reason ) , had at least saved the lives of those who would otherwise have occupied the vacant seats on Flight 103 . |
| 6 | It tended to arrange debates late at night , and much too close to the critical Council meeting , when it realized it would otherwise have to maintain a parliamentary reserve in the Council if scrutiny had not been completed by a debate . |
| 7 | But unions were in fact composed of and certainly led by such men , though the bourgeois mythology saw them as mobs of the stupid and misled , instigated by agitators who could not otherwise have earned a comfortable living . |