Example sentences of "perhaps [pers pn] [modal v] have been good " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it would have been better for them if they had gone straight to hostels or agricultural training camps . |
| 2 | Perhaps it would have been better to spout the usual platitudes about the skills of museum workers who have succeeded in these hard times in preserving and accumulating , acquiring and saving . |
| 3 | Perhaps it would have been better to use the subjects as springboards for complete fiction , leaving the pedantic detail — and the risk of libel suits — behind , and taking off into the story-telling stratosphere . |
| 4 | Perhaps it would have been better to have organized an evening in the pub . |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps it would have been better if they had . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Perhaps it would have been better if this last week had never happened , if she had never even met Fen Marshall . |
| 8 | 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 ? |