Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [is] better for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Not really because it seems to do any good but just because the thinking is that it 's better for him than other commercial products , ’ says Kathleen . |
| 2 | I think we 're all agreed that it 's better for us to die honourably together in this way than to risk a worse fate at the hands of the enemy . " |
| 3 | While some workers believe that the best place for a child is within a family , and that it is better for a child to be placed transracially than to have no family , anxiety is increasing about the outcome of transracial placements . |
| 4 | In the fourth Gospel Jesus tells his followers , heart-broken because he is going to leave them , that it is better for them that he should do so : |
| 5 | It is small wonder that Dr Underwood finds it a ‘ little disconcerting ’ as the inference of the inquiry , as far as it has gone at present , would appear to be that it is better for a child to stay in East London sleeping irregular hours in ill ventilated shelters and eating fish and chips than to have fresh air conditions in one of our Camps with regular hours of sleep and plenty of well prepared wholesome food ( in which vegetables fresh from the garden play a large part ) forming a diet balanced in accordance with the best advice obtainable from the Board of Education and others … |
| 6 | I agree that it is better for the pigs to get beat in Europe , but it would be good if they progressed a little , no further than we did but enough to get tired out . |