Example sentences of "[verb] it be good for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some say it is good for the Prime Minister to mix with the crowd and others that for a Prime Minister it is less than dignified . |
| 2 | They say it 's good for children to grow up with pets around them . |
| 3 | The council says it 's better for everyone , but unions say smokers are being victimised . |
| 4 | When addressing the problem of Germany 's pre-eminent economic power , he either just says it is good for Europe or he says , ‘ I think our neighbours should overcome the tendency to think in terms of nation-states ’ , while the same thought is expressed by one academic : ‘ in many ways , it no longer makes sense to talk about Germany as a distinct national unit ’ . |
| 5 | It 's wrong to assume that just because a cream says it contains plant extracts it 's better for your skin . |
| 6 | National Power says because the station will be gas fired it 's better for the environment . |
| 7 | The sisters would be told that Buzz had agreed it was best for her to leave . |
| 8 | Most people want to like art — they know it 's good for you , or at any rate looks good on you — but face to face with a great painting they feel like gate-crashers at a Mayfair reception . |
| 9 | Oh gosh , that 's good for you , you know it 's good for your co-ordination . |
| 10 | The reason I went into physics and what I try to inculcate is that the ideas themselves are interesting and that seems to me to be the main justification for it , so that when people try and justify scientific research by saying it 's good for the economy , the country and so on , or who knows what applications are going to come of it , I 'm inclined to sit rather quietly when that 's said because I 'm not convinced that some of the research that is done nowadays can have any practical application at all in that direct sense . |
| 11 | The parents decided it was better for the child to be taken away . ’ |
| 12 | Well I suppose it 's good for children anyway . |
| 13 | ‘ I suppose it 's better for a girl than a boy , ’ said Ken doubtfully , ‘ but all the same you should have asked me . ’ |
| 14 | I suppose it was good for us , but we did n't think so at the time . |
| 15 | ‘ I believe it is good for artists to teach students . |
| 16 | You are not obliged to tell anyone at school of your child 's HIV status , but you may choose to do so if you feel it is best for your child to have a trusted adult who knows the situation . |
| 17 | I do n't believe that the method of selling cars with huge discounts that has been going on in the US for some time is good for the companies , and I also do n't think long term it 's good for the industrial base of the country and therefore ultimately for the customer . |
| 18 | Her mother thought it was better for her not to be at home as there was not much space , so the following week they saw the social worker and it was arranged that she go to a house run by the Catholic anti-abortion organisation LIFE . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's why I thought it was better for John to go to Barnsley where youngsters are given a chance . |
| 20 | He sensed a tension in the air , prickling with Blufton 's bruised ego , and thought it was best for her to defuse it . |
| 21 | He thought it was good for the RISC environment but he 's content with the Windows solution Univel is adopting for the Intel environment , which is apparently on the brink of shipping . |
| 22 | Univel Inc president Joel Applebaum last month said in an interview that the Sun Microsystems Inc WABI Windows Application Binary Interface ‘ is not baked yet ’ : he thought it was good for the RISC environment but he 's content with the Windows system that Univel Inc is adopting for the iAPX-86 environment which it is apparently on the brink of shipping ; meanwhile , Univel says it is selling into Europe , South America and the Middle East . |
| 23 | I thought it was good for us . |
| 24 | And I do n't think it 's good for the game to see defenders and keepers under so much pressure that they repeatedly end up booting the ball into the stand . ’ |
| 25 | I do n't think it 's good for us . |
| 26 | I do n't think it 's good for them moving them about from school to school do you ? |
| 27 | , I should think it 's good for him ! |
| 28 | It found that four out of five publicans and restaurateurs in the survey agreed it was good for business , and four out of five managers said recorded music made customers stay longer . |
| 29 | I mean it 's good for them learning to be amongst a lot of children and they soon learn that erm they ca n't have their way . |
| 30 | I mean it 's good for it is n't it , really ? |