Example sentences of "it [be] better to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would n't it be better to be alive , maybe see things like Antoine — or maybe not see things like Antoine . |
| 2 | It 's better to be alone when the planes come . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ But it 's better to be safe than sorry . |
| 4 | You 've thought about it — for maybe a whole five seconds — but before you give him the thumbs up , runs these ten questions by him — it 's better to be safe than sorry . |
| 5 | It 's better to be safe than sorry — especially at Christmas , as consultant microbiologist Dr Liz Scott tells promotions executive Elizabeth Ollier ( left ) in the BBC Good Food kitchen |
| 6 | Yeah how much effect it does have I do n't know because where but I think it 's it 's really basis you know it 's better to be safe than sorry . |
| 7 | Manufacturers do put static protection devices on chips so the problem is nowhere near as bad as it was but it 's better to be safe than out of pocket . |
| 8 | He says that the message to doctors is : if there 's any suggestion of meningococcal meningitis use penicillin — it 's better to be safe than sorry . |
| 9 | Angel tools around London in a black cab , getting into scrapes and surviving by his first rule of life : ‘ It 's better to be lucky than good ’ . |
| 10 | It had been a fifty-fifty chance , but it 's better to be lucky than good . |
| 11 | It 's better to be lucky than good . |
| 12 | Still ( Rule of Life No. 1 ) , it 's better to be lucky than good . |
| 13 | In planning public expenditure it is better to be prudent and make a deliberately cautious assumption on the growth of future resources . ’ |
| 14 | My point is , that it is better to be prudent than happy . |
| 15 | This would avoid civil actions , which are often defeated because individual victims , even when they decide to act co-operatively , are rarely a match for corporations who decide it is better to be prudent than just . |
| 16 | ‘ It is better to be beautiful than to be good . ’ |
| 17 | ( Although the user may recover before the ambulance arrives , it is better to be safe than sorry . ) |
| 18 | ‘ I hope I have n't alarmed you unnecessarily , but it is better to be safe than sorry . ’ |
| 19 | However , as it is difficult to know the history of every disk you are presented with then it is better to be safe than sorry . |
| 20 | However , as it is difficult to know the history of every disk you are presented with then it is better to be safe than sorry . |
| 21 | We put it in the grammatically imperative mood in order to show up starkly its difference from factual statements , but also to leave room to interpret it according to circumstances as the strong ‘ One ought to be aware of this ’ , or as ‘ It is a good thing to be aware of this ’ , or in diminishing degrees , as the prospect of something coming within one 's range of choice becomes remote , ‘ Other things being equal , it is better to be aware of it than not ’ . |
| 22 | Many transracially adopted children are aware that the darker their skin colour the more undesirable they are to white society ; and many feel it is better to be white than black . |
| 23 | Also if the focus is on an ability to communicate then it is better to be able to see the visual as well as the aural aspects of the interaction . |
| 24 | More realistically , the papal Curia thought that when the full ideal was unattainable , it was better to be content with what could be salvaged than to be left empty-handed : the precise opposite of Anselm , who ( as he told Queen Matilda ) would as soon be deprived of everything as of a little — ‘ and I say this not for love of property , but for love of God 's justice ’ . |
| 25 | It seemed unlikely they would have placed a bomb so close to Livingstone Manor , but it was better to be sure than dead . |
| 26 | She knew that there were several personal matters about her that could arouse the man , and that it was better to be cautious . |
| 27 | With an enormous effort Alexandra said , with a small smile , ‘ It was better to be artificial than actually to sit in the sea in March . |
| 28 | Perhaps he had a point there , and it was better to be safe than sorry . |