Example sentences of "[vb mod] have be [adj -er] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In hindsight , it might have been better for him to have taken up the offer . |
| 2 | Nothing could have been worse for us than the children having to suffer and , thankfully , so far they have not had to . |
| 3 | Last year , two of my hon. Friend 's constituents in such a house paid £676 in community charge , so this year 's council tax would have been cheaper for them — |
| 4 | Perhaps it would have been better for them if they had gone straight to hostels or agricultural training camps . |
| 5 | It would have been better for them to be dead . |
| 6 | It would have been better for her to have an abortion , but by the time she told her mother it was too late , so she kept the baby . |
| 7 | Maybe it would have been better for me otherwise ! |
| 8 | For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness . ’ |
| 9 | It would have been better for it to have a uniformly brown plumage . |
| 10 | You may remember that Cliff wore a thumb pick and two National finger picks , hence the octaves section in bars 9 and 10 would have been easier for him to pick cleanly than if he 'd used a flat pick and no fingerstyle . |
| 11 | With family support of the kind practised here in Bristol , the situation would have been easier for me to accept . |
| 12 | The friend lived at the end of the Piccadilly Line so Dennis had insisted on escorting Gillian to Covent Garden when Leicester Square would have been easier for her . |