Example sentences of "that it was better " in BNC.
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| 1 | A quick glance between Rose and the girls was enough for them to know that it was better to make no mention of their elder brother . |
| 2 | One gets the feeling from Warnie 's diary , for example , that it was better to be a good Inkling than a good poet , or even a good man . |
| 3 | He told me however that two years before he had had his journal stolen and written it out again and that it was better second time around . |
| 4 | Herbert had at first been reluctant to believe that it was better for John to study dance in Cape Town than to return to high school in Johannesburg . |
| 5 | One woman in her late 50s , who went all round Europe on her own after the break-up of her marriage as a sort of test for strength , took the philosophy that it was better to live life as if you did n't expect to meet anyone special . |
| 6 | Disguising his real feelings he wrote cheerfully , telling them that it was better here than The Hague , as if to say that nothing could be worse than the hell of being unloved . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | On each of her periods at Hillmarden he had still clung to the faint hope that she was improving , only to find at the end of a week or a fortnight she had made no progress at all and that when Harry — good baby that he was — occasionally cried , this was enough to make Celia so distraught that Brian was forced to accept that it was better for all concerned if mother and baby remained parted . |
| 9 | In the weeks that followed he built up a regular round of customers and boasted that it was better than going to work , especially on cold winter mornings . |
| 10 | ‘ My feeling — and Pam ( Ma Larkin ) , David ( Pa ) and Phillip ( Charley ) agreed — was that it was better to do four episodes really well than six halfheartedly . |
| 11 | She also felt somewhat pleased , feeling that it was better for Mrs Aggie to concentrate her collecting efforts in the nicer part of the town . |
| 12 | Since Raymond-Berengar was married to the been of Aragon and ruled that kingdom in his wife 's name , he might have taken the title of king , but refused to do so , saying that it was better to be known as the greatest count rather than the seventh greatest king . |
| 13 | It may be so , but diplomatic calculation also would have persuaded both of them that it was better if Alice did not marry an Angevin . |
| 14 | And once when Maman was fretting over his painful joints , I heard Jean-Claude retort that it was better being a physical rather than an emotional arthritic . |
| 15 | And so Katherine learned that it was better not to provide an opportunity for a row . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Ace had actually understood some time ago , but if there was one lesson that she would take away gladly from her time with the Doctor , it was that it was better to have people underestimate your abilities than overestimate them . |
| 19 | He reckoned that it was better for the new Iranian prime minister , Shapour Bakhtiar , that the Shah stayed in Muslim country and he thought that Hasans influence would help " keep Khomeini under control " |
| 20 | She knew that there were several personal matters about her that could arouse the man , and that it was better to be cautious . |
| 21 | He had learnt early on that it was better not to flounder ; a simple admittance of ignorance was much to be preferred to any amount of flannel . |
| 22 | She also said that it was better to eat left-over meat in Lent than go to market and incur debt through buying fish ( 241 , p.128 ) . |
| 23 | In a speech to representatives of the Moscow gentry in March 1856 he announced that it was better to abolish serfdom from above than to wait until it began to abolish itself from below . |
| 24 | Had n't she already acknowledged to herself that it was better that they did n't touch — or do anything to aggravate a volatile situation ? |
| 25 | Well I felt that it was better than having white . |