Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [be] good for " in BNC.

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31 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 .
32 I should say that he was good for at least another five years of hard work and although there are various rumours about his suffering from some obscure disease which makes his hand extremely shaky , I have had it on the quiet from his medical adviser that he is sound as a bell .
33 Well , most obviously I have learnt that what is good for me can not necessarily be applied to everyone , although I still tend to dish out unsolicited advice .
34 The Civil Service view is that what is best for the country is a continuation of the centrist and consensual policies that have been developed and sold to party politicians over many years .
35 The main concern , however , is an overriding apprehension that what 's good for Netware may not be good for Unix .
36 By the mid-1960s opponents of the Unionists were firmly convinced that the party , both in the Guildhall and in Stormont , made a simple equation that what was good for Derry was bad for the Unionists and vice versa .
37 It forms an appropriate conclusion , not only in its scale , but in its embodiment of the principle that what was good for Gloucester was good for royal authority .
38 It forms an appropriate conclusion , not only in its scale , but in its embodiment of the principle that what was good for Gloucester was good for royal authority .
39 It is all too easy for the Germans to accept the glib axiom that whatever is good for Germany is good for Europe , and the ‘ European ’ gloss may permit them to pursue their own interests while trying to convince others , and even perhaps convincing themselves , that they are doing this for Europe .
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