Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [be] good for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Life should have been good for Pamela Wray . |
| 2 | It might have been better for Butler to have set reason apart from the whole hierarchy of conscience , self love , benevolence , and particular passions and allotted it the role of ascribing different degrees of authority to each , that is , of saying how they ought to relate to each other mutually . |
| 3 | Ninety one balls and one four , and not a typical DaSilva innings and one does wonders whether in the end it might have been better for Sri Lanka to play at a more natural game . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | If these seem relatively modest benefits , it is perhaps more useful to consider whether a more radical and comprehensive anti-monopoly policy would have been better for society . |
| 6 | It would have been better for employers and workpeople if they had been in the disciplinary grip of machinery … |
| 7 | It would have been better for Andrewes ’ literary reputation , and far better for the history of the next reign if he had not done so . |
| 8 | 15 March 1986 : A Ford takeover of Austin Rover would have been good for Britain , according to a top Ford executive . |
| 9 | That would have been good for Britain , for employment , for British Airways , for British Aerospace and for Rolls-Royce . |