Example sentences of "have been [adj -er] [prep] [pers pn] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In hindsight , it might have been better for him to have taken up the offer . |
| 3 | Would it not have been better for them to wait until the children came home for Christmas ? |
| 4 | It would have been better for it to have a uniformly brown plumage . |
| 5 | For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness . ’ |
| 6 | The implication of her words was obvious , but it would have been wiser of her to have left them unspoken . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | With family support of the kind practised here in Bristol , the situation would have been easier for me to accept . |
| 9 | find it had been better for them to have left their in the bank ! |