Example sentences of "might [be] better [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are encouraged to question the world as it is and to ask how it might be better organized to meet individual and social needs and wants . |
| 2 | The pieces that work best are those that are harmonious with the wood 's properties of strength and grain , and not battling to impose a feat of engineering that might be better made with some other material . |
| 3 | Ideally an entry which is at present only a cross-reference might be better made into a full entry , while the existing entries might be better turned into cross-references , and so on . |
| 4 | For example , patients who have induction of EADs and replication of their ventricular tachyarrhythmias during infusion of phenylephrine but not of isoproterenol might be better treated with alpha-blockers than with beta-blockers . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Tom Boyd , proving that Celtic might be better served by more crosses , placed the ball on the head of the substitute , Andy Payton , who scored with no defender near him . |
| 8 | A volatile file with relatively little processing might be better handled by a balanced tree index . |
| 9 | But although they might be better mounted , by normal standards , they were not so well horsed for rough riding as were the Borderers on their tough , sure-footed hill ponies ; on this terrain the fleeing men ought to be able to keep ahead . |
| 10 | Ideally an entry which is at present only a cross-reference might be better made into a full entry , while the existing entries might be better turned into cross-references , and so on . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But every coin has a flip side ; although we might be better equipped to maintain health , we should recognise that we can not stem the effects of time . |
| 14 | perhaps some of the real and practical problems of user education may not have been tackled , but some might argue that these might be better researched at single-institutional level , without the necessity of substantial , outside funding . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | He sometimes fantasized about emigrating , starting again in Hollywood where his looks and talent might be better appreciated . |
| 18 | And while compulsory metering could discourage the waste of water , the cost of installing meters might be better spent on improving the existing service — fixing leaks in the mains and educating people to conserve water . |
| 19 | I am reminded that when I suggested that the £7 billion of expenditure on the European fighter aircraft might be better spent — it seems dodgy anyhow — or used for civilian aircraft , his contribution to planned change was to suggest that nobody wants single-seater civilian aircraft flying at 750 mph . |
| 20 | If novels are to be studied as part of an exclusive course , they might be better located in Cultural Studies . |
| 21 | Sweden tried to take the first initiative only two days after the ending of the Maudling negotiations , inviting other states to send representatives to Stockholm to discuss how their trade policies might be better coordinated . |
| 22 | It helped to develop valuable projects ; it utilized market skills in the implementation of schemes ; and it began that process of integrating central-government departments into corporate entities through which regional problems might be better addressed . |
| 23 | Attention might be better focused on more technical questions such as how this error information may be used in GIS and spatial analysis . |
| 24 | This might be better put as follows : that the specialist language and the written formalised text alike served the purposes of the particular sub-culture . |
| 25 | For every Cardinal Newman there are hundreds for whom such words might be better described as egotism or pig-headedness . |
| 26 | Although there are differences in the method of removal favoured by different surgeons ( Goodall , 1957 ) , it is usual to spare as much of the thalamus , basal ganglia and hippocampal cortex as possible and for this reason Austin and Grant ( 1955 ) , among others , have pointed out that the operation might be better described as hemi-decortication , reserving the term hemispherectomy for those cases in which subcortical structures are also destroyed . |
| 27 | 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 . |