Example sentences of "otherwise [verb] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | It served to make the Finnish detective rather sharper than he might otherwise have been . |
| 2 | As a first stage towards reviving the route 's viability plans were made to accelerate certain key Glasgow services by raising the line speeds from 100 to 110mph ; the second stage was to prepare an investment case for new equipment to fill the gap which would otherwise have been covered by APT . |
| 3 | He has certainly demonstrated that he is a ‘ draw ’ : there must already be some 250 Conservative MPs in his debt for turning out an audience at least double that which they would otherwise have been able to collect . |
| 4 | Such ritual brings no hope , and it diverts to barrenness emotions which might otherwise have been fruitful . |
| 5 | A domestic market that becomes part of an international market is going to be subjected to the effects of changes which might otherwise have been more slow in coming — or would n't have immediately affected it . |
| 6 | The use of aisles permitted the erection of a much wider building than would otherwise have been possible . |
| 7 | The ‘ state of war ’ declaration clouded what might otherwise have been a clear-cut case of American aggression and gave the White House the makings of a case under international law . |
| 8 | The new ceiling enabled the War Office to retain some extra units that would otherwise have been disbanded . |
| 9 | However much the buyer may complain , he acted voluntarily : he is better off than he would otherwise have been . |
| 10 | In southern California , where only 6% of travel to work is by public transport , most users would otherwise have been passengers in cars , not drivers . |
| 11 | Although the 1914–18 war quickened the speed of the decline in fertility and resulted , during a loss of around 600,000 unborn children who would otherwise have been brought into the world , at no time did the rate touch the low level at which it stood in 1939 . |
| 12 | They often came into conflict with the local Transport Committees , formed from the local branches of the main transport unions , who correctly maintained that they alone had the right to issue permits for the movement of essential items which would otherwise have been held up in the dispute . |
| 13 | For these reasons Magharba and Zuwaya who were not tribally minded stayed away : voters who regarded themselves as modernizing were silent , and the turn-out was somewhat lower than would otherwise have been the case . |
| 14 | But the Protestant Elizabeth , the queen whom he thought he was flattering by likening her to Deborah ( the prophetess who , with the help of the Lord , saved Israel from the Canaanites ) , was never to forgive him , and this ensured that his role in the years of success for the Scottish Protestants after 1560 was less than it might otherwise have been . |
| 15 | Sometimes it can be shown that the tissue not only looks homogeneous , but actually is so , because , if the tissue is cut in half , each half will regulate to give rise to the same pattern as would otherwise have been produced by the whole . |
| 16 | The North American mink , he says , has fitted into the niche which would otherwise have been occupied by the European mink had it ever reached Britain . |
| 17 | Accordingly , since the beginning of 1958 , a succession of volunteers from Leslie Tilbury onwards have served as secretary to the Essex Federation , a post which would otherwise have been held ex officio by the tutor-organiser . |
| 18 | ( 7 ) The possible loss of such employment opportunities abroad threatens the southern DRAs now , but the complex effects of such temporary migration on DRAs require rigorous assessment ; for example , many migrant workers will be returning with capital savings and experience which could never otherwise have been accumulated . |
| 19 | This suggests the significance of specialist workers in two possible ways : either preventing compulsion where there was insufficient risk to the patient or others , or persuading those who would otherwise have been sectioned to enter hospital informally . |
| 20 | There was also sadly a degree of controversy with regard to some records , making the work less valuable than it might otherwise have been . |
| 21 | In order to understand what they had found they needed to classify the fossil organisms into particular kinds , more or less similar , to impose an order on what would otherwise have been a vast and chaotic mass of different and apparently unrelated relics . |
| 22 | Now , instead of her clients coming to her , she had to walk the streets displaying her attractions ; perhaps luring to depravity men who might otherwise have been content to dream and wonder . |
| 23 | And rather than being at the mercy of the autobiographer 's choice of what to mention , we can ask questions and open up areas of significant memory which would otherwise have been lost . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | This rather tenuous Morrissey connection managed to gain pockets of press coverage that would otherwise have been wasted on Bananarama or something equally appalling . |
| 26 | From being an additional safeguard for those already arrested , the necessity principle becomes , in the hands of the Home Office , the basis of a separate and quite independent set of criteria justifying arrests that would otherwise have been unlawful . |
| 27 | Stephen refers to a crime being excusable if the defendant can show as one of the requisites that what was done was done to avoid a consequence which could not otherwise have been avoided , and which , if not done , would have inflicted harm on him or on others he was bound to protect . |
| 28 | You are thus investing money for retirement much of which would only otherwise have been paid to the taxman |
| 29 | In order to evaluate whether the enhanced home support of the action scheme was successful in sustaining at home some people who would otherwise have been likely to enter institutional care , it was necessary for the action to take place in a prescribed geographical area , so that an equivalent , matched area could become a control area . |
| 30 | Since the conditions applied are almost certainly too restrictive ( the project may well have sustained somewhat more than four to five clients per week who would otherwise have been in an institution ) the total annual sum saved is almost certainly nearer £24,000 — £26,000 . |