Example sentences of "would [verb] be [art] better " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally , Greenidge tried to emulate Richards which , when things went well , was fine , but when they did not it meant that , for a while , he gained a reputation for not being over-reliable ; perhaps he suffered from trying to hit the ball too hard , for there were plenty of people who felt that he would have been a better player had he not tried to ‘ bury the ball into the wall of some distant building ’ ( his own words ) at every opportunity . |
| 2 | ‘ Cupboard ’ would have been a better description . |
| 3 | If she had n't yielded to a guilty passion then she would have been a better wife to Denny . |
| 4 | A solution , of course , is to program the patches in a logical order , but a bank ‘ Down ’ pedal would have been a better idea , especially as the A4 can be used to send MIDI commands to external MIDI devices , such as another processor . |
| 5 | Miss Beard , for whom Ruth thought ‘ drab ’ would have been a better description , inclined her head . |
| 6 | A month ago , the smart press echoed with I-told-you-so reminders that Mr Hurd , the classiest act in the government , would have been a better prime minister than Mr Major . |
| 7 | I would have been a better person than I am today . |
| 8 | Folly did n't say anything , but she could n't help thinking that the Post Office Tower would have been a better vantage-point , as well as being one of the ‘ sights ’ of London in its own right . |
| 9 | ‘ If we had scored first , it would have been a better game because it would have forced them to come at us . |
| 10 | He has been struggling to find form all season , and maybe Terry Kingston would have been a better bet . |
| 11 | ‘ Maybe working on water would have been a better description , ’ says Wimpey marketing manager Phil Cusack . |
| 12 | I 'm sure someone will tell us that Wetherall had a great game ( he must have — look at the result ! ) but surely Roecastle would have been a better bet ( or even Hodge ? ) . |
| 13 | He added that Mr Kinnock would have been the better orator , but that he would have won on detail and facts . |
| 14 | The opinion polls said that the Shadow Chancellor would have been the better man to defeat the Conservatives . |
| 15 | The sudden tenseness of his jaw suggested that discretion would have been the better part of valour , and so it should have been , if he had n't taunted her about her sexual uncertainty . |