Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] it was good for " in BNC.
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| 1 | On each of her periods at Hillmarden he had still clung to the faint hope that she was improving , only to find at the end of a week or a fortnight she had made no progress at all and that when Harry — good baby that he was — occasionally cried , this was enough to make Celia so distraught that Brian was forced to accept that it was better for all concerned if mother and baby remained parted . |
| 2 | In 1670 , Richard Baxter 's book , ‘ The Cure of Church Divisions ’ was published in which he argued that it was good for Christians to continue to worship in parish churches despite the bitter hostility against Nonconformists . |
| 3 | She had thought long and hard before deciding that it was best for him to hear it from her rather than risk it reaching him through the more sensational tabloids , but she had braced herself for an outburst of shock , anger , even disgust . |
| 4 | He reckoned that it was better for the new Iranian prime minister , Shapour Bakhtiar , that the Shah stayed in Muslim country and he thought that Hasans influence would help " keep Khomeini under control " |
| 5 | Herbert had at first been reluctant to believe that it was better for John to study dance in Cape Town than to return to high school in Johannesburg . |
| 6 | ( 2 ) ( a ) The justices were under a duty to consider whether it was better for the child for a secure accommodation order to be made rather than no order at all being made upon the application ( in accordance with section 1(5) of the Children Act 1989 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ The justices were under a duty to consider whether it was better for the child for a secure accommodation order to be made rather than no order at all being made upon the application in accordance with section 1(5) of the Children Act . |
| 8 | Conservatives sometimes asserted that it was good for MPs to continue with other part-time occupations so that they could gain wider experience of society 's problems . |
| 9 | Afterwards we all said that it was good for the game that the transplant of power which had begun at the Sydney Football Stadium in our bi-centennial year had taken so robustly . |
| 10 | She also felt somewhat pleased , feeling that it was better for Mrs Aggie to concentrate her collecting efforts in the nicer part of the town . |