Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [verb] [be] better for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet it should have been better for , needing only to hit the 18th green with a sand wedge he went into a bunker , failed to get up and down and ended with a bogey five . |
| 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 | In hindsight , it might have been better for him to have taken up the offer . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness . ’ |
| 7 | It would have been better for it to have a uniformly brown plumage . |
| 8 | Perhaps it would have been better for them if they had gone straight to hostels or agricultural training camps . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Maybe it would have been better for me otherwise ! |
| 14 | Perhaps it would have been better for the apple if it had never had ideas above its station , if it had never started carrying around so much symbolic baggage . |
| 15 | It will always be the case that it would have been better for one of the counterparties not to have taken out the forward contract but to have waited and transacted in the spot or cash market at the time called for delivery . |
| 16 | It would have been better for employers and workpeople if they had been in the disciplinary grip of machinery … |
| 17 | It would have been better for them to be dead . |