Example sentences of "good if it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was better if it had never happened . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 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 | Would it have been better if it had not been a corner ball ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Against : Documentation would be better if it included a tutorial , as it is sometimes quite difficult to follow . |
| 9 | It becomes I I do touch on this at one point in my submission , it becomes even better if it has links . |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps it would be better if it did . ’ |
| 11 | But it would be better if it did not need washing . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | It will do him good if it slumps a little . |
| 14 | The fright we 've given ourselves in recent months will have done us some good if it helps us adjust society back in the direction of common purposes and co-operative disciplines . |
| 15 | Modularising is good if it allows greater choice for students , and allows them to specialise in certain parts of a rather falsely unified subject . |
| 16 | In neither case , does the activity of a postman emerge as something which could be good if it existed in isolation . |
| 17 | Branson 's feeling that ‘ competition is good for the consumer if fares come down , but not good if it puts us out of business ’ constituted a political education of sorts . |
| 18 | It 's no good if it do n't work . |