Example sentences of "have been [adj -er] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Would n't it have been simpler for you to be independent back home ? ’ |
| 2 | Last year , two of my hon. Friend 's constituents in such a house paid £676 in community charge , so this year 's council tax would have been cheaper for them — |
| 3 | It could have been worse for Rangers . |
| 4 | It could have been worse for Rangers . |
| 5 | It must have been worse for Charlie . |
| 6 | Nothing could have been worse for us than the children having to suffer and , thankfully , so far they have not had to . |
| 7 | Things could hardly have been worse for her . |
| 8 | This problem must also have been worse for some people because , even though I 'm only 16 , I am 5ft 8ins . |
| 9 | ‘ With all the stuff that had gone on prior to the match and then the conditions we had to play in , the result could have been worse for Rangers but for our goalkeeper , ’ Gough admitted . |
| 10 | Yet would it not have been better for them if 't were not done at all ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness . ’ |
| 13 | It would have been better for it to have a uniformly brown plumage . |
| 14 | Perhaps it would have been better for them if they had gone straight to hostels or agricultural training camps . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Would it not have been better for them to wait until the children came home for Christmas ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In hindsight , it might have been better for him to have taken up the offer . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Maybe it would have been better for me otherwise ! |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ? |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It would have been better for employers and workpeople if they had been in the disciplinary grip of machinery … |