Is it correct to use a form of "be" before "better"?

grammar syntactic-analysis sentence-patterns

Solution 1:

Removing the "be" leaves a reasonable sentence, if we assume that "these mistakes" refers to a class of mistakes ("such mistakes") and not to some individual noted errors.

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