Example sentences of "be good [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Would it have been better if it had not been a corner ball ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | Against : Documentation would be better if it included a tutorial , as it is sometimes quite difficult to follow . |
| 8 | ‘ Perhaps it would be better if it did . ’ |
| 9 | But it would be better if it did not need washing . |
| 10 | In neither case , does the activity of a postman emerge as something which could be good if it existed in isolation . |
| 11 | Ah now that 's better only it felt as if my |
| 12 | What is surprising is that , when they took the weight off again , the feedforward net 's output was better than it had ever been before . |
| 13 | Indeed , it was better than it had been for months . |
| 14 | It was better if it had never happened . |
| 15 | It was good once it got going . |
| 16 | ‘ All the old clichés : it was good while it lasted , and so on . |
| 17 | It was new to them , but they did not need to be told that it was good and it raised their spirits . |
| 18 | I think the show was good because it covered a lot of ground and put a general feeling in context . |