Example sentences of "be better [verb] if " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is difficult to capture accurately the complex patterns of motivation that produce an individual 's actions but I think the position of Paisley , Beattie , Foster , and others can be better understood if we distinguish motivational background and front stage . |
| 2 | It may be better understood if it is set in the context of Hindu teaching concerning the different orders or āśramas of society corresponding to the different stages of life . |
| 3 | It will be better understood if this conceptual paper is read against the reports on how this programme is being put into practice in several projects in different parts of the world and being implemented in colloquia and workshops , position papers and formal statements and declarations , in a publication programme consisting of academic studies and more popular magazines and newsletters , not only Media Development , Action and Communication Resource , but also books and periodicals published in different regions . |
| 4 | Would social surveys be better understood if both approaches to data analysis were to be adopted ? |
| 5 | Mrs Thatcher finally announced her decision to resign at a Cabinet meeting summoned at the unusually early hour of 9 am the next day , declaring that she had concluded that the unity of the party and the prospects of victory in a general election would be better served if she stood down to enable Cabinet colleagues to enter the ballot for the leadership . |
| 6 | No one realised more than the Queen that her children were deeply flawed and that the monarchy might be better served if that generation was skipped altogether . |
| 7 | Its citizens presumably believed that their interests would be better served if Henry won , for he stood for the preservation of a single sovereign authority ruling in Poitou , England and Normandy , in other words over both ends of La Rochelle 's trade , over wine-growers and wine-drinkers . |
| 8 | But though this may quell doubts about the benefits of the existence of large-scale enterprise , it does not bear on the point that where competition is attenuated a policy of profit maximisation may not be wealth maximising : society might be better served if companies were to lower price and increase output , even though this would be less profitable from the company 's point of view . |
| 9 | There are many examples of how different services should work together and how passengers ' interests would be better served if there were a body to decide whether the bus companies are carrying out their responsibilities . |
| 10 | Even so , it is a question whether the interests of the software houses themselves would be better served if they submitted , perhaps voluntarily , to the unpackaging of their expensive packages ( against payment of a royalty ) . |
| 11 | And what , pray , was The Sun Justice would be better served if there were fewer judges from Brasenose College , Oxford , and more Sun readers from the University of Life on the Bench . ’ |
| 12 | We welcome the security that the present orders offer to 1994-95 , but would not Harland and Wolff 's future , as well as that of other British shipyards , be better secured if we were to adopt the policy of new build for Britain 's merchant fleet and thus ensure that shipyards throughout the United Kingdom employ our people and that our seamen have jobs to go to ? |
| 13 | disclose : I feel : irritated/like I do n't matter/defeated. predict : if you do this , I can work more efficiently/I know you 're busy , but if you do this we 'll both save time on discussions like this/I 'd be better motivated if you did . |
| 14 | Any animal with even a rudimentary nervous system will be better placed if it can compute the arrival of impending danger or the location of valuable resources such as food or mates . |
| 15 | However slight the contact may seem to be between certain levels of government policy-making and the work of teaching , managers of education at school level would be better placed if teachers were at least aware that programmes such as those connected with the TVEI can be altered by ministerial will — and can have their funding reduced . |
| 16 | Erm the pressures in the E C at the moment , I think , would be better handled if as nations come , en democratically , economically , erm they come into the E C , not perhaps at the right time for those that are inside , because that might be too late frankly , but but they 're not pushed into the E C en bloc , too early . |
| 17 | Both the Whitby Keelboat Society and the Whitby Coblemen 's Association came forward with their support , and suggested the service would be better attended if it was held in July when more of the boats would be in port . |
| 18 | ‘ I think the public will be better protected if for the next two years and possibly afterwards you are on a regime of medication which will ensure you do n't do anything like this again , ’ he said . |
| 19 | Fifa , Italia '90 and the English FA are all agreed that the hooligan element among English fans could be better contained if England played their opening games on an island . |
| 20 | Not that I have to make the same choices as someone I acknowledge to be more discriminating , since my differently constituted palate may react differently , but my own choice will be better informed if I heed nuances which I would have missed if he had not pointed them out . |
| 21 | I cancelled the afternoon 's lessons and returned home in a daze , cursing the Allies and hoping that they would be better behaved if they ever came to liberate us . |
| 22 | Nor does the fact that , so long as they consider that the affairs of the business they own are being conducted well enough on their behalf , owners do not choose to exercise their ultimate authority , provide any reason for supposing either that companies would be better managed if trade unions were implicated in management or that owners would acquiesce in the assumption , in whole or in part , of their rights by any other party — let alone by one whose essential interests are often opposed to their own . |