Example sentences of "more [adj] if [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like most upper-class Anglicans he would have found the incarnation more understandable if God had chosen to visit His creation as an eighteenth-century English gentleman . |
| 2 | Prisons might very well be more orderly if conditions were improved . |
| 3 | we 've been slightly more amenable but invite to your club temerity to ask your Lordship rather me , but as I 'm on my feet , er ask your Lordship whether you could sit at all early on Friday as to help Mr er , I , I was little concerned to hear Mr say that he was going to wait for Mr he had responded because that would of course then extend more into Friday , it may be more sensible if Mr could have |
| 4 | Many patients find it more acceptable if gloves are worn for all venepuncture . |
| 5 | The general feeling is that this trend would be more acceptable if archaeologists in the various French regions had adequate financial resources , the necessary training , and real independence to decide where to dig . |
| 6 | Thus in general , Solihull secondary teachers believe that staff would be more honest if names were kept off the response sheets ; that the scheme focuses on weaknesses rather than strengths and that generalizing about schools as a whole is difficult . |
| 7 | That would be much more likely if Mr Gorbachev could reduce his conventional forces and weaponry in the Warsaw Pact . |
| 8 | It would be rather more welcome if comics could still be comics . |
| 9 | Plaintiffs should not assume that they are entitled to be " whitewashed " by a defendant who has paid them merely nominal damages , and it would be more satisfactory if judges made some enquiries of the parties before they approve statements which are made as matters of public record . |
| 10 | And of course , quotations of APR by individual traders would be very much more valuable if people could set them against a background of what is typical than if they stood alone , in isolation . |
| 11 | If used with considerable restraint this can be a valuable facility : it would probably be much more valuable if Guide used an HSV ( also called HSB ) colour model rather than its current RGB model . |
| 12 | It 's more comfortable if Herta lies on her side and I take up position behind her . |
| 13 | It may be harmless enough if mail-order suppliers of gardening sundries sell their mailing lists to publishers of gardening encyclopaedias — it is perhaps more questionable if access to share registers of companies is used to circulate shareholders with party-political propaganda about privatisation or nationalisation . |
| 14 | It is even more useful if people have produced verbal statements without explanation , or have given you a formula but missed the underlying structure . |
| 15 | It was also a reflection of a growing awareness on the part of teachers that learning in school would be more effective if parents were helped to understand what they , the teachers , were seeking to achieve . |
| 16 | We believe that these grants would be more effective if responsibility was transferred to those Departments which can make best use of the money . |
| 17 | More effective if blackout available . |
| 18 | The are willing to describe cases anonymously , though it would be more helpful if people were prepared to be named . |
| 19 | See , if you sort of somehow trellis that area , that side in you could actually have this mo more intimate if people just wanted |
| 20 | This reduction would have been even more severe if subsidies had n't been paid since 1968 and some of the innovations shown in Table 6.2 had n't been introduced . |
| 21 | The administration of additional inspired oxygen seemed to be of benefit ; in 15 patients with baseline hypoxaemia this would be expected as episodic desaturation has been reported to be more severe if baseline hypoxaemia is present . |
| 22 | The role of the bus becomes much more important if rail services disappear and are to be replaced by bus services . |
| 23 | EPZ regulations must become much more flexible if countries are to retain the vitality of the original investors . |
| 24 | INRA and ITCF ) has proved the agricultural efficacy of fertiliser applications on upland pasture in the Auvergne and it may be that their use would be more commonplace if state subsidies were higher . |
| 25 | YOUR correspondent suggests our world would be more peaceful if religion was banished . |
| 26 | The study confirmed findings which had been highlighted in earlier research , for example that schools tend to be more successful if leadership is purposeful and teachers cooperate in the implementation of an agreed policy . |
| 27 | A positive diagnosis was significantly more common if dysphagia was the reason for referral ( 65.9% v 35.3% , p<0.01 ) . |
| 28 | It is more convenient if Wendy comes here . |
| 29 | The latter was usually given anyway , but became far more expensive if disagreement rose . |
| 30 | He seems to have intended to rule Norway , like Swegen , through the earls of Lade , and his dominion there would doubtless have been more secure if Earl Hakon had not died prematurely and without issue . |