Example sentences of "it not [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Yet would it not have been better for them if 't were not done at all ?
2 Since Death in Venice is also to be performed , would it not have been better to keep Grimes for the new house and to have included a Rossini opera as a nostalgic as well as topical reminder of golden evenings ?
3 Would it not have been better to imagine the possibility of a different , better world ?
4 Would it not have been better for them to wait until the children came home for Christmas ?
5 But would it not have been better , he mused , to have left the banqueting hall and defended the Residency where there was a well ?
6 If that is the case , would it not have been better for the hon. Gentleman to keep his own counsel when he stated publicly that we were bound to fail in our negotiations ?
7 Would it not have been kinder had she pretended to be glad — since it was Christmas time , after all — when Odette had come rushing to show her that letter from her father ?
8 But would it not have been sensible to go and see for himself , before rushing off a wholly inaccurate letter ?
9 But , in that case , would it not have been enough to defend Saudi Arabia and maintain the pressure on Saddam Hussein through sanctions ?
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