Example sentences of "do well if " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did well enough , though might have done better if it had covered less ground ; also , in the four years that had elapsed since gathering material for it , public interest in the world role that Americans had taken up in the Kennedy years had largely evaporated . |
| 2 | I think I could have done better if I had a different attitude , ’ she said . |
| 3 | I would have done better if I 'd have had more time . |
| 4 | And in an oblique swipe at her critics in the Bush Administration she added : ‘ Those countries protesting at their return would do better if they offered to take some of them . ’ |
| 5 | He argued that families would do better if their members were altruistic . |
| 6 | Young , subordinate females will do better if they mate with a new male . |
| 7 | Mother was a grand player , of course … much better than I ever was … but she thought I might do better if someone else taught me , and she was such a busy person with all those old people to care for and Daddy ailing like he was . |
| 8 | She suggested they would do better if they only sat five exams and spent the rest of their time on work which could give them a much broader education than just swotting for more GCSEs . |
| 9 | Could one promote his buried awareness into a skill of giving matter-of-fact recognition to a child 's potential , of giving a child hope about himself , instead of confirming his negative stance by showing surprise at occasional good work or using it to prove that Dave ‘ could do better if he tried ’ ( as we so easily exhort when we are exasperated , and as the group seemed to be doing with Mr E ) ? |
| 10 | So James had good reason not to trust a local market in tobacco , and to believe that he would do better if he kept it as a commodity to be imported and to pay duty accordingly , mainly at London and Bristol . |
| 11 | Or , does the economy do better if they act as gardeners , nourishing the soil , pulling out the weeds , selecting the plants ? |
| 12 | ‘ His school reports always used to say , ‘ Jonathon could do better if he tried . ’ ' |
| 13 | He is also much more positive than many earlier organization theorists , who emphasized the complexities of individual behaviour in organizations but did little to help top managers except to say their task was very difficult and that they might do better if they understood that . |
| 14 | For my part , I think Benedict would do better if she does not saddle him with it . ’ |
| 15 | The hon. Gentleman would do better if he chose his targets with more precision . |
| 16 | I mean do you do better if you put in on a large stake as opposed to a small stake ? |
| 17 | Do not think that your horse will do better if you add more than the recommendations , the fact is that too much is more harmful than too little . |
| 18 | Their choices follow : Lunn Poly 's marketing director Peter Rothwell observed that as a rule the staff in their 505 shops base their selling on the answers given by the customer in a questionnaire , to prevent mismatches between customers and the holidays they took , but he nevertheless felt safe in saying that two young couples , a bit adventurous , would do well if they invested in an ILG Drive Europe holiday along the west coast of France to Biarritz , good countryside and a nice old town , accommodation at the Mer et Golf apartments , two weeks in all with ferry and accommodation included for £255 each . |
| 19 | If you sell farm butter and cheese instead of whole milk you can do well if you have the right market . |
| 20 | In addition , the team will do well if the Holy Spirit is manifested through wisdom , knowledge , faith , healing , miracles , discernment of spirits , prophecy , tongues and interpretation ( 1 Corinthians 12 : 8–12 ) . |
| 21 | The chancellor would do well if he spent more time worrying about whether New York 's children are learning the three Rs — subjects in which they are sadly deficient . ’ |
| 22 | Consequently , as most lecturers will be assessed at both extremes of a general rating scale , any lecturer will do well if he pleases half the audience . |
| 23 | Sow the seed in early to mid-spring , or late summer , preferably the latter as viability falls rapidly , outdoors where they are to grow — chervil does not do well if transplanted . |
| 24 | I think they would do well if playing with O'leary or Faircoulgh . |
| 25 | But because of the bureaucratic necessity to generalize and disregard distinctions too fine for large-scale enforcement and administration , some people are able to do better if they refuse to acknowledge the authority of this law . |
| 26 | D had the same complaint about C. B and C also admitted to finding it very difficult to manage their immediate subordinates , C and D respectively , who seemed to do better if treated as colleagues and left alone . |
| 27 | So he is doing well if he genuinely feels no lusting after earthly things but such a burning love of God that it is the only thing he wants to talk about , the only activity he wishes to pursue ; and if anything which furthers it , however apparently difficult , is easily done , and any hardship suffered gladly with genuinely indestructible inner joy . |