Example sentences of "it be [adj -er] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why will it be worse for me ? ’ |
| 2 | Do I want the moon to " supply her losses " like an efficient steward , or would it be better for her to " heal wounds " , like a surgeon ? |
| 3 | Shall I wait and then put in er would it be better for me to wait and then put in a big lump sum ? |
| 4 | ‘ Would n't it be easier for you ? ’ |
| 5 | It 's better without them . |
| 6 | The council says it 's better for everyone , but unions say smokers are being victimised . |
| 7 | I need , at the moment in terms of corrective action on quiffs , I am sending quiffs out to procedure owners , and I need to know whether suggestive procedure changes or not , and it 's better for me if it is out in that order then I can go through and mark the quiffs off as being erm the changes or not . |
| 8 | It 's better for me , 'cos there 's less caffeine , and I drink a lot of tea , so . |
| 9 | ‘ Not really because it seems to do any good but just because the thinking is that it 's better for him than other commercial products , ’ says Kathleen . |
| 10 | It 's better for him . |
| 11 | It 's better for them to see their loved ones as they remember them . ’ |
| 12 | but we 're not allowed to put posters on the walls you know , it 's better for them to stick them at |
| 13 | I think we 're all agreed that it 's better for us to die honourably together in this way than to risk a worse fate at the hands of the enemy . " |
| 14 | If we can get full pages fine but sometimes it 's better for us to get these . |
| 15 | ‘ Come on , sit down and let's all have a beer , ’ she said , and with a look at Dr Reid added , ‘ It 's better for you than that rotgut at the bar . ’ |
| 16 | It 's better for you to wait there . |
| 17 | Well if it 's better for you I should . |
| 18 | It 's wrong to assume that just because a cream says it contains plant extracts it 's better for your skin . |
| 19 | It 's better for your health ! |
| 20 | It 's better in it 's better in the |
| 21 | ‘ It 's worse for them because they blame themselves for having provided me with the financial means to take a plebeian job . ’ |
| 22 | out , he says to me you 'll kill yourself , you always want to do something , but to be honest it 's worse for me to sit there and watch that , it 's more tiring because by the end of the night I 'm not tired or I 've been asleep all evening I , I 'm better to go out , I know it sounds awful but I do n't like being trapped , I do n't like being in because somebody seems to think I should be in |
| 23 | Anyway , I 've turned it off so it 's colder for you |
| 24 | You have to decide whether it 's safer in your bank or ours |
| 25 | five or ten minutes late , it 's cheaper for me to put ten P in than to pay twelve pound ticket |
| 26 | Yeah well it 's cheaper for us anyway . |
| 27 | I mean , we 're buying coal which is subsidised abroad so therefore it 's cheaper for us to buy it and bring it in , but what happens when all , all our home supplies have dried up |
| 28 | I think it 's harder on you . |
| 29 | He , he picks on us to say how determined we are to actually go into the profession because he knows that er , although there are more parts for females there it 's harder for somebody to stand out . |
| 30 | ‘ I did pick up a lot of younger listeners with the early evening shows and it 's harder for them to tune in now , which I regret , but , without wanting to sound melodramatic , I would have done myself a mischief if I 'd carried on and I already feel better . ’ |