Example sentences of "have be good for " in BNC.
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1 | 15 March 1986 : A Ford takeover of Austin Rover would have been good for Britain , according to a top Ford executive . |
2 | I 'm not saying I 'd have been good for him or him for me , but it did provide a link in a chain that was to tie me to glory in the Open . |
3 | Decide now what you really wanted to do , and what , with hindsight , would have been good for you to do or have . |
4 | In the yard at the back , a slow burning bon fire added to the pong which could not have been good for those living nearby . |
5 | Sam could sing and play the concertina and violin , and he must have been good for the BBC to come all the way to Baldersdale to find him . |
6 | So I doubt if our hero would have been good for many heroics after swigging that . |
7 | It might have been good for the dockies , but it were n't no good for the lighterman . |
8 | That would have been good for Britain , for employment , for British Airways , for British Aerospace and for Rolls-Royce . |
9 | It would n't have been good for staff morale . |
10 | Life should have been good for Pamela Wray . |
11 | You would have thought it would have been good for them . |
12 | Yet would it not have been better for them if 't were not done at all ? |
13 | 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 . |
14 | For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness . ’ |
15 | It would have been better for it to have a uniformly brown plumage . |
16 | Perhaps it would have been better for them if they had gone straight to hostels or agricultural training camps . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | Would it not have been better for them to wait until the children came home for Christmas ? |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | In hindsight , it might have been better for him to have taken up the offer . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | 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 ? |
26 | 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 . |
27 | Maybe it would have been better for me otherwise ! |
28 | 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 . |
29 | If that is the case , would it not have been better for the hon. Gentleman to keep his own counsel when he stated publicly that we were bound to fail in our negotiations ? |
30 | 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 . |