Example sentences of "have been wiser " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aunt Agatha would indeed have been wiser to stuff her money under a mattress ; or , better , in — yes — a building society , a bank or even , like great-grandpapa , 2.5% Consols . |
| 2 | And fourth , having been caught out it would have been wiser to brazen it out immediately , as do the Israelis , rather than go through the tedium of Tricot 's inquiry . |
| 3 | Knowing this to be his likely mood when I brought in the tea yesterday afternoon , and being aware of his general propensity to talk with me in a bantering tone at such moments , it would certainly have been wiser not to have mentioned Miss Kenton at all . |
| 4 | He was beginning to feel that it may have been a mistake , it may have been wiser to have remained elsewhere . |
| 5 | But also , they include cases where lenders have extended credit when it would have been wiser not to . |
| 6 | You can probably find things to say about how well George and Marie have gone about co-ordinating their marketing , financial and personnel activities , and you could even ask yourself whether they might not have been wiser to expand ( if that is what they still want to do ) in a different direction altogether . |
| 7 | Looking back with seventy years ' hindsight , Dad might have been wiser to have accepted this offer , but things were different before the First World War and couples might quarrel and argue all their married life as Mum and Dad did but rarely separated and never divorced . |
| 8 | Would n't you have been wiser to call them back ? |
| 9 | Later I realised it would have been wiser to have made a stitch on the empty needles and worked a couple of rows before finishing . |
| 10 | The implication of her words was obvious , but it would have been wiser of her to have left them unspoken . |
| 11 | One of the few occasions when she had been really cross with me had been when I suggested he might have been wiser to make some sort of provision for his wife and son . |
| 12 | He would have been wiser to have published only the first part of this book . |
| 13 | I conceded that it might have been wiser , and indeed more seemly , to have consulted her before a decision was reached ; but I did not add that I had advised the Prime Minister to agree to a meeting over her head because I was convinced that she would never accept a challenge to her authority . |
| 14 | Hypocritical though it was , would n't she have been wiser to have led Luke on a little , been a bit more responsive when the opportunity arose ? |
| 15 | In some ways it would have been wiser to remain backstage , allowing his presence to be felt , the sight of him reassuring everyone . |