Example sentences of "[verb] be [adj -er] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , now it would 've been easier for you , the , the part that you missed out which would have brought all that in to play would have been how much do you want to pay , do you wan na pay a , a small amount over a long time or a big amount over a short time and then that would 've brought that into play . |
| 2 | Implementing change has been easier for parish church cathedrals , for obvious reasons . |
| 3 | In this House it has been easier for Conservative Members in particular to take a dispassionate view of the matter than was possible for them in the previous Parliament , working as they were under the shadow of a General Election and in the aftermath of a traumatic change in leadership . |
| 4 | I think he 'd been better for a long time on and off |
| 5 | So if you look , and they , and they say the more mono unsaturates it 's got is better for you is n't it , rather than polyunsaturates cos it 's broken down either further is n't it ? |
| 6 | For example , the time to decide that the target word snow had occurred was faster for sentence ( a ) than for sentence ( b ) : |
| 7 | ‘ Would n't it have been simpler for you to be independent back home ? ’ |
| 8 | Last year , two of my hon. Friend 's constituents in such a house paid £676 in community charge , so this year 's council tax would have been cheaper for them — |
| 9 | It could have been worse for Rangers . |
| 10 | It could have been worse for Rangers . |
| 11 | It must have been worse for Charlie . |
| 12 | Nothing could have been worse for us than the children having to suffer and , thankfully , so far they have not had to . |
| 13 | Things could hardly have been worse for her . |
| 14 | This problem must also have been worse for some people because , even though I 'm only 16 , I am 5ft 8ins . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | Yet would it not have been better for them if 't were not done at all ? |
| 17 | The political ground could not have been better for a new middle party and many , including myself , thought that they could well achieve the breakthrough they sought . |
| 18 | For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness . ’ |
| 19 | It would have been better for it to have a uniformly brown plumage . |
| 20 | Perhaps it would have been better for them if they had gone straight to hostels or agricultural training camps . |
| 21 | It would have been better for her to have an abortion , but by the time she told her mother it was too late , so she kept the baby . |
| 22 | Would it not have been better for them to wait until the children came home for Christmas ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In hindsight , it might have been better for him to have taken up the offer . |
| 26 | Grandmother used to say that if it had been possible to take their personalities and shake them together a bit it would have been better for both of them . |
| 27 | Oh I shall never regret Er I do n't know but I 'm just perhaps one on me own , but er it could n't have been better for because I was a freelance and er I wanted to learn and wanted to get on and they allowed me , they allowed me to do what I wanted . |
| 28 | I could not understand why Hindley , who hated him , would want his company , and I felt sure it would have been better for all of us if Heathcliff had never come back . |
| 29 | Do n't you think that perhaps it might have been better for the oil companies to have perhaps done more at an earlier stage , in the the safety side of things ? |
| 30 | 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 . |