Example sentences of "that it be better for [pers pn] " 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 | 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 : |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |