Example sentences of "[modal v] otherwise have been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His thick-set holler lifts what might otherwise have been a cool but minor diversion into a work of real significance . |
| 2 | The Maggot , faced with these scathing judgments , countered by asserting that Ellen 's education had ruined what might otherwise have been a useful bimbo , and loudly proclaimed that her extreme aversion to himself was positive psychological proof that she was secretly enamoured of him . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There is a suggestion that farmers were inclined to discriminate in favour of married labourers , since they would otherwise have been a greater burden on the parish rate of which the farmers were the main payers . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Pentium is the name Intel Corp has chosen for what would otherwise have been the 80586 microprocessor , the company announced last week : reason is that it did not think it would be permitted to claim 586 as a trade mark . |