Example sentences of "[be] [adj -er] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It may be easier to be fearful of all sorts of things than to be honest and say to yourself : ‘ The way I feel is entirely my own problem .
2 Would n't it be better to be alive , maybe see things like Antoine — or maybe not see things like Antoine .
3 As Rioch suggests ( see p. 7 at the beginning of this chapter ) , women psychologists always need to be better to be equal .
4 Ellen wondered if he had petit mal and looked it up in a medical dictionary — neither of them went to doctors if they could help it — but the entry was not very helpful , and it seemed in any case the kind of symptom it would be better to be vague about , not define , not name , for fear the naming made it worse , less likely to evaporate out of existence .
5 It would be better to be stronger in the arms , help could be summoned , but some tasks one did on one 's own .
6 It would be better to be dead .
7 Furthermore , from a financial point of view it may be worse to be unemployed in London than in Manchester because of the differences in the cost of living .
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