Example sentences of "[vb infin] more [adv] if " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , instead of the size of the pool being determined solely by the demands made upon it by the local authorities , the global sum to be spent on advanced further education would be determined by the AFEC in consultation with the DES after it received estimates of expenditure from the local authorities in respect of the provision of higher education within their boundaries , on the grounds that the local authority would behave more responsibly if it paid a proportion of the cost rather than reclaiming all of it from the pool . |
| 2 | It is clear that science will advance more efficiently if theories are so structured as to contain within them fairly clear clues and prescriptions as to how they should be developed and extended . |
| 3 | Refrigerators will work more efficiently if sited on a level floor . |
| 4 | My neighbour 's utterances may follow more coherently if we construe them thus : |
| 5 | Landowners and farmers implicitly recognized this division , but they also realized that life both on the farm and in the village would ultimately run more smoothly if the socially divisive effects of potential class conflict could be dissipated or overcome . |
| 6 | A classic experiment in the U.S. by Glass and Singer 5 demonstrated that people will perform more productively if they have more control over their environment . |
| 7 | If it did start up , the Ariadne would ride more comfortably if it were bows on to it . |
| 8 | The sheets got changed once a week , but you could change more often if you got blood on them or something . |
| 9 | You will write more rapidly If you join as many letters as possible , so try using looped tails on your letters even If this is something you do not always do when writing . |
| 10 | All of them would live more happily if they and the world remained in ignorance , and to try to achieve that I would give them the one gift I could . |
| 11 | There 's some fluid in your lungs and you 'll breathe more easily if you 're propped up . ’ |
| 12 | One third of them also admitted they would drive more carefully if they had to buy their own cars and pay all the running and repair costs . |