Example sentences of "it [be] better for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do I want the moon to " supply her losses " like an efficient steward , or would it be better for her to " heal wounds " , like a surgeon ? |
| 2 | Shall I wait and then put in er would it be better for me to wait and then put in a big lump sum ? |
| 3 | The council says it 's better for everyone , but unions say smokers are being victimised . |
| 4 | I need , at the moment in terms of corrective action on quiffs , I am sending quiffs out to procedure owners , and I need to know whether suggestive procedure changes or not , and it 's better for me if it is out in that order then I can go through and mark the quiffs off as being erm the changes or not . |
| 5 | It 's better for me , 'cos there 's less caffeine , and I drink a lot of tea , so . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | It 's better for him . |
| 8 | It 's better for them to see their loved ones as they remember them . ’ |
| 9 | but we 're not allowed to put posters on the walls you know , it 's better for them to stick them at |
| 10 | 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 . " |
| 11 | If we can get full pages fine but sometimes it 's better for us to get these . |
| 12 | ‘ Come on , sit down and let's all have a beer , ’ she said , and with a look at Dr Reid added , ‘ It 's better for you than that rotgut at the bar . ’ |
| 13 | It 's better for you to wait there . |
| 14 | Well if it 's better for you I should . |
| 15 | It 's wrong to assume that just because a cream says it contains plant extracts it 's better for your skin . |
| 16 | It 's better for your health ! |
| 17 | For the normal continuation of the museums ' collecting and activities , it is better for them not to collect pictures by European masters for kopeks in Russia , but to buy equipment and restoration materials with serious money in the West . |
| 18 | Surely it is better for them to strive to be literate than to engage themselves in the fruitless task of emulating the speech of the hearing . |
| 19 | 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 : |
| 20 | The county has a view about golf courses — that if there is to be such a development it is better for them to be sited not on good farming land , or in naturally beautiful areas , but on the outskirts of towns . |
| 21 | ‘ And so often it is better for someone other to make the choosing . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ It is better for us to say we are going to have to institute a series of strict priorities . |
| 23 | Harriet Tremayne , her mother , had been strongly against this , but Tom , her husband , a charming , indolent and indulgent man , had argued , with a certain degree of logic , that ‘ the girl had to do some kind of war work ’ and that it was better for her ‘ to do something she had set her heart on ’ . |
| 24 | Her mother thought it was better for her not to be at home as there was not much space , so the following week they saw the social worker and it was arranged that she go to a house run by the Catholic anti-abortion organisation LIFE . |
| 25 | Eileen 's commanding officer took them to a room and gave them tea , and tried to explain to them that it was better for her to remain . |
| 26 | He drove them to the station and they returned , sad for their sister and still not convinced that it was better for her not to come home . |
| 27 | It 's not my family you know , ’ because it was better for her to stop . |
| 28 | Her guides would have lemon squash because it was better for them and less expensive . |
| 29 | The Presbyterian , Daniel Williams , persuaded a meeting of London Dissenting ministers not to present an address of thanks to the King for the Indulgence , and argued that " it was better for them to be reduced to their former hardships , than declare for measures destructive of the liberties of their country " . |
| 30 | But I said it was better for him if he did n't go back . ’ |