Example sentences of "[adj -er] if it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Learning it is easier if it has some reason behind it ; but such reasons are theoretically based , and will therefore date . |
| 2 | Complicated when it has to be written down to or detailed where there 's a lot of information to be taken in and it 's a lot easier if it 's done that way because people can refer back to it all the time . |
| 3 | The fashionable question ‘ How does the head office add value ? ’ would be clearer if it asked , ‘ When and why does a firmlet gain from being part of a company ? ’ |
| 4 | The only thing is i it would have been nicer if it had of printed . |
| 5 | It was better if it had never happened . |
| 6 | It 's a world away from J. M. Barrie 's classic story — and you ca n't help feeling it could have been better if it had followed that more closely . |
| 7 | It was an enormously thorough and comprehensive review of the case , running to four volumes and more than 1200 pages , yet it would have been better if it had been half the length and taken half the time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Someone once worked out that there were about a dozen words which appeared more often than any other in ad headlines , and concluded slightly illogically — that any ad would be better if it had one or more of them in the headline . |
| 10 | Would it have been better if it had not been a corner ball ? |
| 11 | If you 'd wanted to separate off your paras , you 'd put in a full size slug because it was easy to make up and the whole thing was absolutely modular erm but perhaps it would have looked better if it had been A four , or you know , Swiss in some way . |
| 12 | Against : Documentation would be better if it included a tutorial , as it is sometimes quite difficult to follow . |
| 13 | It becomes I I do touch on this at one point in my submission , it becomes even better if it has links . |
| 14 | ‘ Perhaps it would be better if it did . ’ |
| 15 | But it would be better if it did not need washing . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | Coming after five years of war , when for the first time there did seem to be a tiny light at the end of the tunnel , these new rockets were almost too much for our overstretched nerves , although the situation would no doubt have been very much worse if it had not been for the times when both the RAF and the American Air Force had been out bombing Peenemunde and the other rocket sites . |
| 18 | Det Insp Jeff Crowther said : ‘ This incident could have been worse if it had gone on for any length of time . ’ |
| 19 | It was sad coming back alone to an empty house , Ianthe thought , but how much worse if it had been a single furnished room , like poor Miss Grimes . |