Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [be] [adj -er] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have been worse for Charlie . |
| 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 | It could have been worse for Rangers . |
| 5 | It could have been worse for Rangers . |
| 6 | ‘ With all the stuff that had gone on prior to the match and then the conditions we had to play in , the result could have been worse for Rangers but for our goalkeeper , ’ Gough admitted . |
| 7 | It may have been harder for girls from the Canongate to find such jobs ( the survivors were all from slightly more prosperous backgrounds ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It would have been better for employers and workpeople if they had been in the disciplinary grip of machinery … |
| 10 | 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 . |