Example sentences of "[adv] it be [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may indeed deserve to lose your wife , your job , your friends — naturally it is easier to accept the power of the curse than the fact of your own selfishness , unlikeability , destructive bad temper and so forth . |
| 2 | I ca n't see it as clearly as that — and perhaps it 's better not to see clearly — ’ |
| 3 | But perhaps it 's better if I tell the story . |
| 4 | ‘ Perhaps it 's better not to have any in the first place , ’ Merrill remarked idly , braking at a crossroads . |
| 5 | I think it 's unscientific , prejudicial and subjective to use it in a term that carries any kind of recommendation or erm disapprobation and er I think , I think one has to exercise caution in erm in the way you use tha tha that , that term , perhaps it 's better not to , not to use it at all . |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps it 's easier to save someone else . ’ |
| 7 | But perhaps it 's easier I wonder what are other factors of two hundred and fifty two ? |
| 8 | That perhaps it 's easier to do in a smaller department , I mean I 've got checkouts , and the majority of my staff are part-time , and I 've only got three full-timers , so it 's quite often the case that at nine thirty , one thirty , five thirty , eight thirty , it 's a case of coming in and then relieving somebody else straight away , you do n't necessarily have the time to spend with them . |
| 9 | I think later on perhaps it 's easier erm but basically I think boys need to be discouraged from assuming that they know what women 's position is . |
| 10 | Perhaps it 's quicker if I ask you , you just heard about it . |
| 11 | But perhaps it is better to avoid Rouen , the midday traffic going in and coming out is too much of a worry . |
| 12 | Perhaps it is better to say that it is a prima facie relationship which can be used for prescriptive advice to hold back investment unless the ‘ dog ’ management can establish an exceptional case . |
| 13 | Perhaps it is better , rather than roaming back into the recesses of geological time to consider the sudden and simultaneous extinctions that happened in Our geological yesterday . |
| 14 | I did not mean to say but perhaps it is better I should , therefore only remark that I will speak on the subject in my next , but do not suffer alarms on my account — I am in better health than I have been for years and I hope to get to Sydney and get comfortably settled in good time … ’ |
| 15 | Perhaps it is better that you are with a wardrobe . |
| 16 | Alice said generously , ‘ Perhaps it is worse for you and Oliver , really . |
| 17 | Perhaps it was better in the days when the stars were ripped off , fucked about , had no grip on their affairs . |
| 18 | If Hugh thought she knew everything perhaps it was better that he should think it . |
| 19 | He took a deep breath ; perhaps it was better this way . |
| 20 | Still , he thought with a shudder , perhaps it was better than falling into the hands of those negroes out there ! |
| 21 | Perhaps it was better that we did not meet ; the coin should n't be allowed to see its other side . |
| 22 | It was a fantasy , as he was himself , it had always been a fantasy , and perhaps it was better to keep it so . |
| 23 | Mm that 's what I mean , I y we found that with four , is even more so , what some people were strong on others were n't and it it worked round you know , if you picked your team right everybody would thought perhaps it was better to have one woman in the team or , you know , if you had four women |
| 24 | One can imagine their need of concentration with the family trying to keep warm round a peat fire in a dark room , reading by the light of a flickering homemade candle or smoky paraffin lamp but perhaps it was easier than trying to compete with a noisy television set a century later . |
| 25 | Perhaps it was easier to imagine Sister Dew doing it than Mark and Sophia . |
| 26 | Obviously it 's harder to get a peek at the innards if you 're buying via mail order , but many direct sellers now have showrooms that you can visit . |
| 27 | Many like steel , glass and paper can be re-used , and funnily enough it is cheaper the second time around . |
| 28 | In her dream , someone was stroking her cheek with a touch as delicate as a snowflake , only it was softer , more loving , totally sensuous . |
| 29 | The children were deeply ashamed : ‘ He used to be like that when Luke was here , Rose ; only it was worse . ’ |
| 30 | It was as though she had died again , only it was worse , and he felt guilty that he had n't wept properly when she 'd really died . |