Example sentences of "would have be good " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the British Government ruled out the prospect of the US company buying Austin Rover , within days of it leaking out that talks had been taking place , Bob Lutz , Ford of Europe chairman , said : ‘ I honestly believe it would have been best for Britain . ’ |
| 2 | I do n't actually know if I would have been best friends with her had I not met her before , but we get along well now , + are well suited . |
| 3 | ‘ If he 'd gone away a long time ago , it would have been better , ’ said Mrs Clancy wryly . |
| 4 | I feel it would have been better to include this as a subheading to each mountain . |
| 5 | ‘ It would have been better if he had praised us no matter what anyone said , ’ Sheila said when the girls were alone with Rose , disappointed that he had failed to support them in public no matter what his intentions were . |
| 6 | Indeed , the SL 's overall economy would have been better still had it not taken an unusually dim view of performance testing , its consumption plunging to just 14.4mpg while at Millbrook . |
| 7 | On reflection , the owner felt that it would have been better adopt the traditional method of ‘ tanking ’ the semi-basement lower floor with in situ asphalt . |
| 8 | The logical re-use of existing services has led to the retention of the overly utilitarian postwar outshot when it would have been better to demolish it and to restore the four-square appearance of the pre-war building . |
| 9 | A simple statement to explain why Charles was staying away so long would have been better than nothing . |
| 10 | I felt afterwards it would have been better not to make such an effort to finish it all . |
| 11 | So I said : ‘ It would have been better if we had never met . ’ |
| 12 | For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness . ’ |
| 13 | OK , so relations were unsteady with little brother right now , but it would have been better than this . |
| 14 | The thought crept into him that it would have been better if there had have been trees outside . |
| 15 | It would have been better for it to have a uniformly brown plumage . |
| 16 | Third , it would have been better to use freelances whose connection with the DGSE could have been denied , whereas both Mafart and Prieur made telephone calls to DGSE numbers in France when first arrested . |
| 17 | From the transmission point of view , it would have been better to site a new station on the South coast , he said . |
| 18 | Not bad — would have been better if he had n't put the Toyota in its place . |
| 19 | Alderman Glover said that the corporation 's record would have been better had they not handed over some of their schemes ready-made to the NIHT . |
| 20 | Before he died in 1811 , an opium-addicted pauper in Marylebone Workhouse , he may have reflected that it would have been better had he never left the low-lying fields of Huntspill . |
| 21 | With the benefit of experience , the authors feel that a more sensitive , qualitative approach , possibly incorporating a few standardised items , would have been better than using standardised scales for the difficult task of assessing depression and dementia in elderly people . |
| 22 | Incidentally the lesson would have been better if there had been more tape recorders in the school and if the tape had been ready at the right moment . |
| 23 | He and his colleagues were understandably concerned about the lack of evidence to support the beneficial claims of holistic medicine , but Dr Richards , who thought much evidence could be produced if funds were available , sagely remarked that ‘ absence of evidence is not evidence of absence ’ , a remark that lingered after a discussion that would have been better if longer and better left to the end of this excellent series . |
| 24 | Mayson was denied his hat-trick by good ‘ keeping and twice Smyth was through , only to go for the unselfish option when perhaps a shot would have been better . |
| 25 | Perhaps it would have been better for them if they had gone straight to hostels or agricultural training camps . |
| 26 | They did n't get as far as the Tibetan border , where the exchange rate would have been better . |
| 27 | He said that the doctor seemed to think Sigarup would be all right — although his chances would have been better if they 'd brought him sooner . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Last night the Foreign Office said : ‘ We can see now it would have been better if the advice had not been given . ’ |
| 30 | As a fellwalking boot , I thought the Sanmarco was perfectly adequate on the roughest of paths , but not quite so good on tussocky , heathery , trackless ground , where something a bit stiffer would have been better . |