Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] off if " in BNC.
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| 1 | " She 'll never be raised again , " and Maurice suggested that Willis would be much better off if he did n't have to look at the wreck of Dreadnought at every low tide . |
| 2 | ‘ Poor people would be much better off if they had fewer children to feed and clothe . ’ |
| 3 | It seems that we would be much better off if we spent money not on constructing a barrage but on cleaning up the various sewage works that I have castigated over the years . |
| 4 | I would be slightly better off if I had paid it . |
| 5 | The consequence is that most single parents , who have to pay someone to look after their children while at work , are now worse off if they continue part-time work , and the number of single parents in work is likely to drop dramatically because of this change . |
| 6 | If he lost the case the Mayor 's standing in Tripoli — an important asset to any committee chairman — would be damaged ; he would have been even worse off if he won , and the judges decided that Ajdabiya really was independent of Tripoli . |
| 7 | Well , with him and Bigwig , at least we sha n't be too badly off if we run into any fighting . " |
| 8 | Organization participants with majority power must be persuaded that they would be significantly better off if a change occurred . |
| 9 | That may not be too far off if the progress of the last 50 years is anything to go by . |