Example sentences of "would have been better for " in BNC.
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| 1 | For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness . ’ |
| 2 | It would have been better for it to have a uniformly brown plumage . |
| 3 | Perhaps it would have been better for them if they had gone straight to hostels or agricultural training camps . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Maybe it would have been better for me otherwise ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It would have been better for employers and workpeople if they had been in the disciplinary grip of machinery … |
| 13 | It would have been better for them to be dead . |