Example sentences of "good if it [verb] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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1 | This public assertion of my childhood 's usefulness stands side by side with the painful personal knowledge , I think the knowledge of all of us , going as far back as the story lets us , that it would have been better if it had n't happened that way , had n't happened at all . |
2 | Would it have been better if it had not been a corner ball ? |
3 | But it would be better if it did not need washing . |
4 | Jones further argues that if central government believes it can not or should not perform a particular public function , ‘ it would be better if it decentralised not to technocratic quangos but to directly elected local governments ’ . |
5 | It 's no good if it do n't work . |