Example sentences of "it [modal v] [be] good for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It may be best for us ’ , McFarlane reported back at the time , ‘ to try to picture what it would be like if after nuclear attack , a surviving Tartar became Vice-President ; a recent grad student became Secretary of State ; and a bookie became the interlocutor for all discourse with foreign countries . ’ |
| 2 | It may be best for this to occur in smaller groups or all together . |
| 3 | It may be best for you . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It may be good for the cause , but the cause is n't everything , ’ she said . |
| 5 | It may be good for your ego , but is it good for the company ? |
| 6 | He says it may be good for farmers and gardeners , but it will make no difference to the river at all . |
| 7 | If the parent finds difficulty in not reacting to the child while in ‘ time out ’ on the chair , it may be better for the child to be placed in a safe separate room for the equivalent time . |
| 8 | It may be better for auditors to limit the scope of their work and describe it in their report , it concluded . |
| 9 | Depending on what you have attached , it should be good for up to 20 minutes . |
| 10 | ‘ I have never played before but it is something which has always appealed to me , and it should be good for my powers of co-ordination , ’ he said . |
| 11 | It must be good for the soul . ’ |
| 12 | It must be good for the community and the people who live in it . ’ |
| 13 | I feel sure he must already know , since it 's his ship , but it might be good for him to realise that persons of influence , like yourself , who might report him , also knew . |
| 14 | While it might be good for your career … . |
| 15 | ‘ It might be good for Gateshead , but would it help Steve Backley in Barcelona ? ’ |
| 16 | Since the Board are entering into a Scheme for adult education in co-operation with the LEA in Cambridgeshire much in the same way ( as ) had been done in Bedfordshire it seems as if it might be best for the Board to be recognised as the Responsible Body for this type of course . |
| 17 | The author , Gavin Alexander , until recently head of Hampton School in Middlesex , for boys aged 11 to 18 years , says it might be better for 13-year-old pupils to be assessed in this way rather than sitting the Common Entrance and then being assessed again a year later . |
| 18 | Indeed given the opportunity it might be better for someone publishing obscene or indecent literature to be charged under one piece of legislation rather than another , since one might permit more or better defences . |
| 19 | The matter crosses delicate and dangerous ground , and it might be better for us both if it remained unexplored . ’ |
| 20 | Have you do you think it it might be better for some of the brighter ones to stretch them , to go through the whole lot do you know what I mean ? |
| 21 | It might be better for them to prop up the Ottoman empire for a while longer , but at the same time to keep their options open by maintaining contact with the various factions amongst the Serbs . |
| 22 | I sometimes think it might be better for everyone if I was n't here . |
| 23 | In cases involving more than one child , the circular advised that it might be better for the local Board of Guardians to test the widow 's need by offering to take the children into the workhouse rather than give her outdoor relief . |
| 24 | It should not take more than twenty-four hours but it might be better for your wife to go home with Mrs. Bonnard . ’ |
| 25 | and it might be better for me to do it , see you 've got a |
| 26 | ‘ It 'll be better for me to ride him first , as he 's always a bit frisky when he first starts out , ’ Angela told Cheryl when she returned . |
| 27 | ‘ I know it 'll be hard but it 'll be better for Maureen in the long run . |
| 28 | I think it 'll be good for Pauline she gets a lot of information . |
| 29 | " It 'll be good for a giggle , as Charlie says , " she concluded , with a look which on a lesser woman could have been called coy . |
| 30 | ‘ It 'll be good for me . |