Example sentences of "in other [noun] [pers pn] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stood for a moment longer , looking at her , unable to speak , seeing that she was so beautiful it was hurtful to him , thinking that in other circumstances he would be unmanned by such beauty , except that he was not unmanned , that was the very last thing … |
| 2 | In other circumstances she would have been more than willing to engage in this conversation herself , for it was one she had frequently enjoyed ; she liked Otto , she had always mildly fancied that he liked her , she was amused by the offhand continental gallantries with which he interspersed , absent-mindedly , the rigour of his argument ; but tonight she was tired , her eyes were closing , she had had four hours of party already , had not enjoyed the Hargreaves drama , had not enjoyed her talks with Ivan Warner and Teddy Lazenby , had been polite enough for long enough , and wanted to go home ; so stood at Brian 's elbow , dully , a reproachful wife , slightly annoyed that neither of them took much notice of her , as Otto invoked the name of Max Weber , a name which meant nothing to her at all , a name which excluded her , exhausted her , and provoked her into prodding , yet again , but this time successfully , Brian 's arm , and murmuring of baby-sitter Sharon , who was only sixteen . |
| 3 | He was a good head taller than she was , and in other circumstances she would have judged him the heart-throb type , with his dramatic dark looks , reckless mouth , strong jaw and a piratical scar across one cheek giving his faultless right profile the touch of humanity it needed . |
| 4 | In that case Lord Denning argued that the Court of Appeal should issue guidelines similar to those of the House of Lords in the 1966 Practice Statement , thereby enabling the Court of Appeal to depart from its own previous decision where the decision was wrong ; in other circumstances it would hold itself bound by Young v. Bristol Aeroplane Co . |
| 5 | In other circumstances it would have been comic . |
| 6 | If the subject does not know the junction and is attempting to decide how risky it is likely to be in other circumstances it would make sense to extrapolate from the information in the film to decide for example how busy the junction generally is , or to simply generalize from their current feelings of risk . |
| 7 | When levels exceed World Health Organisation guidelines , the result is described as ‘ good ’ — in other countries it would be called ‘ poor ’ . |
| 8 | In other moods she would go to bed for days , and have trays sent up to her room that were laden with stingy nursery snacks of mashed fish and junket . |
| 9 | In other times she would have been obsessively at her pen or her typewriter ; as it was , she harassed her scribes and possible scribes continually — to death , it would appear in the case of the first one . |
| 10 | Decisions on a new constitution would have to be reached by a two-thirds majority of the assembly , whilst in other matters it would act by consensus . |
| 11 | ‘ On the basis of experience in other sectors we would advocate delay in the introduction of schemes while a programme of training in basic principles of job evaluation is provided , ’ she says . |
| 12 | In other words we would have been better off cashing the precept and keeping the money under the mattress . |
| 13 | In other words they would think I was a slag . |
| 14 | They should n't be programmed for a pattern during these exercises , in other words they would be turned off , or they too will respond to the pattern and show a different needle movement . |
| 15 | In other words it would mean that battles could be won which people have previously thought could not even be fought . |
| 16 | In particular , the Luxembourg Compromise permitted a state to plead special circumstances in the Council of Ministers ; in other words it would be able to exercise a veto on matters which it believed and claimed might adversely affect its own vital national interests . |
| 17 | So your first five thousand eight hundred would be used against it , and then any e excess over that would be added to your tax bill in that year , in other words it would be assessed as income in that year . |
| 18 | In other words it would have to be job beneficial , it would have to be of strategic importance and and all those other things we 've been discussing . |