Example sentences of "which [modal v] [be] better " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who practise these branches of study often mistake them for spheres of knowledge when they are more accurately seen as examples of dialectic or rhetoric — ideas which may be better aired in talk . |
| 2 | Fisher saw that this mind was not the grammarian or writer of Greek and Latin prose such as Cambridge liked , but was a meditative , half-philosophical mind , which might be better suited in the Oxford school . |
| 3 | In an adjudication published today , the Press Council does not uphold the complaint , saying it represented a re-run of complaints made by the Lamplughs about Mr Stephen 's book and was likely to ‘ reopen and prolong a dispute which might be better left unpursued . ’ |
| 4 | Rear panel furniture is limited to a set of analogue outputs for connection to an amplifier input , and a coaxial digital output which might be better used for later upgrading via an outboard digital converter . |
| 5 | If it were mine and I wanted to make serious use of the bass , I 'd probably take the E and A drones off , as one could argue that they do n't do enough on top of the heavier bass strings , which might be better used for playing ‘ proper ’ bass lines . |
| 6 | Presently , he said , ‘ If it 's going to help , by all means interview Edna , but I do n't quite see how raking up the past , digging into something which might be better left alone , is going to get Celia over this illness , turn her into a normal woman again . ’ |
| 7 | F-15s and F-16s off the shelf rather than waste vast development costs which could be better deployed in the commercial sector . |
| 8 | F-15s and F-16s off the shelf rather than waste vast development costs which could be better deployed in the commercial sector . |
| 9 | In the years after the war , with the drive for ever-increasing agricultural productivity , country house parks were often seen as areas of ‘ conspicuous waste ’ , which could be better put to more intensive cultivation . |
| 10 | Tender green beans grow in soil which could be better employed providing food for Kenya 's peasants . |
| 11 | But the whole concept of past-life regression was thought to be at best unbelievable and at worst as some form of dabbling in an area which would be better left unexplored . |
| 12 | In the promotion of rapid industrialization , the Japanese state fostered the growth of large organizations which would be better placed to resist the intense competition of Western companies . |
| 13 | We could also write down other things about what we have noticed which would be better expressed in words than in paint . |
| 14 | The report , by researchers at Glasgow University 's Centre for Housing Research , was based on a study of nineteen BES companies in Scotland and the authors conclude that BES entails a misdirection of public resources which would be better employed as direct payments to housing associations . |
| 15 | However , the differences are sufficient to make some lecturers feel that the linking of art and design is a marriage of convenience which would be better sundered , even to the extent of having separate departments . |
| 16 | We need firm anti-inflationary policies , which would be better achieved through an independent central bank . |
| 17 | If used constructively , instructional programs can be very effective but they can be very boring if they are used merely to transfer work to the microcomputer which would be better carried out in the traditional manner . |
| 18 | The road is totally unsuitable to serve a further housing development which would be better accessed by the originally proposed route along the existing footpath east of Bellburn Lane . |
| 19 | In many cases they already pay out too much in dividends , money which would be better used for investment or at least retained in the business for some useful purpose . |
| 20 | We will assist the Milk Marketing Board 's move to a new structure which will be better able to protect the interests of producers and consumers in the Single Market . |