Example sentences of "might [verb] [be] better " in BNC.
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| 1 | His forecasting staff in the Treasury might have been better suited to dreaming up horoscopes , and at times officials seem to have been deliberately distorting figures for political ends . |
| 2 | While the election of Paisley was a major blow to the credibility of Chichester-Clark , who might have been better advised to save face by not becoming personally involved in opposing Paisley , William Beattie 's victory in South Antrim was probably more damaging in that Beattie was far less well known , was standing in a more cosmopolitan constituency , and was competing against a man who had previously been a cabinet minister . |
| 3 | The situation was rather more fluid than this suggested ; ‘ almost ’ might have been better expressed as ‘ not sufficiently ’ . |
| 4 | If Europe had not suffered so many years of religious cruelty and persecution , the home-grown cats might have been better developed and ready to compete with the extravagant foreigners . |
| 5 | We may feel today that things might have been better planned , and that it is a great pity that what now looks like the decisive contribution of England to world history should have been carried through with so much muddle and mess . |
| 6 | Family tradition attracted many Scots into the army who might have been better advised to look elsewhere , but in time of war there was always the hope that disease or wounds would carry off enough military superiors to create vacancies without purchase and permit advancement in rank . |
| 7 | There was much that might have been better concealed , not least the ugliness of wartime necessity that had yet to be cleared away . |
| 8 | In the 1370s the English , lacking good leadership and the necessary commitment of men and money to defend a long frontier ( available money might have been better spent on defence than on more popular campaigns through France ) , soon lost the ground which they had gained by treaty . |
| 9 | Harold Wilson was , when he might have been better engaged in the affairs of the nation , extremely solicitous in seeing that arrangements were made for Marcia Williams , particularly in relation to her progeny . |
| 10 | Likewise , the agent of change might have been better devised to give more confidence in the outcome . |
| 11 | The presentation of memories as they were told brings this book alive , but the Civic Society might have been better served by their publisher who should have avoided duplicating four paragraphs in two chapters attributed to different contributors . |
| 12 | The right hon. Gentleman might have been better advised to raise that matter at a meeting of the parliamentary Labour party than inviting me to answer it . |
| 13 | If their friend Duke Robert had not died on his way back from Jerusalem these expeditions might have been better supported , and had a different outcome . |