Example sentences of "more [adj] if [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This encourages logging companies to send over plain logs , but it would be more profitable if the countries themselves designed and built furniture and fitments and sold it direct to the West . |
| 2 | But the farm would be much more profitable if the British were n't so reluctant to eat goat meat . |
| 3 | ( The situation is even more acute if the existence of intellectual property rights or product design by a dominant firm excludes rivals from supplying products that are compatible with its equipment ( Whinston , 1990 ) . ) |
| 4 | The problem is more acute if the overall demand for money is inelastic and is subject to fluctuations . |
| 5 | Frequently , those with nystagmus find their vision more stable if the head is held on one side or slightly askew . |
| 6 | The structure would have been much more stable if the two supporting pillars had been placed closer together . |
| 7 | It could go even more wrong if the forces encouraging lending or determining the risk of bankruptcy were to change . |
| 8 | The semantic integrity or cohesion of a collocation is the more marked if the meaning carried by one ( or more ) of its constituent elements is highly restricted contextually , and different from its meaning in more neutral contexts . |
| 9 | We believe that it would be more sensible if a proportion of the compensation would be met by people like pension fund managers if for no other reason that it would encourage them to er keep their own house in order erm and you know it 's not a bad er principle to operate in these areas . |
| 10 | We felt that it would be more interesting if the Conference participants experienced to some degree the complexity of weighing requests , one against the other , for what are always limited funds . |
| 11 | If the original intention was to make the Greeks feel embarrassed at asking for their marbles back , the calls for their return may grow more strident if the laboratory folds up altogether . |
| 12 | It would be more acceptable if the dam made electricity , but it is silted up because the water analysis got muddled up and the river is much siltier than was originally expected . |
| 13 | It is an interesting thought that the numerical approach could be strengthened and made more acceptable if the number of units of good credited to a ‘ good ’ decision and then added to the Godhead , could be a factor of the numerical majority of individuals in sympathy with that decision . |
| 14 | On the face of it this is unlikely to be acceptable to the vendor since in effect it gives an option to purchase , though it may be more acceptable if the period allowed for preparing the report is short . |
| 15 | Employee attitudes towards a move may be made more favourable if the employer allows the relocation to take place during school holidays . |
| 16 | Would it not be more appropriate if the remains of this second King of the English , great-great-grandson of Alfred the Great , were transferred to Glastonbury , burial place of his forebears and King Arthur , or to Westminster Abbey ? |
| 17 | the honourary member continues er are we being treated to a rerun of the speech made recently because I think it would be more appropriate if the honourable member discussed the orders tonight , otherwise there will be a bit a pruning from the chair . |
| 18 | The situation will be made more dangerous if the EC cuts itself off from the new North American Free Trade Area . |
| 19 | Scientists have known for some time that fusion reactions between nuclei of deuterium and tritium are more likely if the nuclear spins line up in the same direction . |
| 20 | The latter case is more likely if the new user is to be working as part of a team , since the team leader will probably have the privilege to create users according to the needs of the project . |
| 21 | The panel notes that ‘ it would be simpler and much more satisfactory if the procedure provided for the ‘ contrary case ’ to be presented'' . |
| 22 | To a politician the ability to do this kind of service was vital , and it was even more urgent if a political contest was in progress , lest the opposition perform the service . |
| 23 | If a sighted guide is needed at the stage when a blind pupil has not completely mastered independent mobility techniques or is in an unfamiliar environment , it is safer and more comfortable if the correct sighted guide technique , which is a very simple one , is adopted . |
| 24 | But in real life such oscillations are seldom as rhythmical as those of a stone hanging freely from a string ; the comparison would be more exact if the string were supposed to hang in the troubled waters of a mill-race , whose stream was at one time allowed to flow freely , and at another partially cut off . |
| 25 | There will still be reasons , adduced below , for objecting to an account of predicate qualifiers as based on either clauses or abstract clauses , but on the general suggestion that an abstract clause , of this or that design , might be a useful grammatical device , we may point out that , as we remarked in Section 3.7 , a claim that some structure is a reduced form of a clause is not explanatory ; and it does not become more explanatory if the appeal is to a hypothetical or abstract clause . |
| 26 | But the reflection is likely to be more interesting and more challenging if the activity looks forward as well as over the shoulder , as it were . |
| 27 | The main disadvantage of this practice is its complexity ; it is easier and more comprehensible if the accounts reflect actual revenues and expenses , and the budget reflects budgeted revenues and expenses . |
| 28 | It is more useful if the boundary feature can be related to a more closely datable field monument , so that the relative dates can be shown . |
| 29 | This may prove more effective if the girl playing the wife has no idea of what the scene is going to be about . |
| 30 | It is a good idea to take a week 's break every month as skin brushing , like many natural detoxification techniques , is more effective if the body does not become too accustomed to it . |