Example sentences of "be good for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | they 're better for parking are n't they small ones ? |
| 2 | Can we go back to that , I mean we 've heard that they 're good for tourism |
| 3 | they 're good for patronage , they encourage people who have money to er , to put it into the arts , they 're they promote stability and they they save us from a dictatorship , is that it ? |
| 4 | Some rackets are better for some shots , some are better for others . |
| 5 | We recognise that our resources are different in nature and serve different purposes , and that whilst computers may suit one use , paper records are better for others . |
| 6 | Homes with large impersonal reception areas are better for orientation if they are broken up into smaller areas divided from each other . |
| 7 | Hence complex carbohydrates are better for bodybuilders and athletes . |
| 8 | Life should have been good for Pamela Wray . |
| 9 | The return of the Emperor to France and the subsequent declaration of war had been good for Harper 's trade ; a good hunter stolen from a Protestant plantation in Ireland would fetch a prime price in England where so many officers equipped themselves for the campaign . |
| 10 | The steady erosion from astronomical to merely high has at least been good for morale : a further cut after the holidays might just jolly people into voting Tory if there were to be an autumn election . |
| 11 | Furthermore , it has been good for morale to have an ongoing project , the success of which has not been tied to the everyday ups and downs in the hurly-burly of school life . |
| 12 | 15 March 1986 : A Ford takeover of Austin Rover would have been good for Britain , according to a top Ford executive . |
| 13 | But Major , Patten , Douglas Hurd , Kenneth Clarke , and even Michael Heseltine , were left with no choice but to argue that Thatcherism had been good for Britain . |
| 14 | On balance , I believe that Britain 's membership of the EEC has been of some benefit in terms of the home market which she has gained and will continue to gain as and when her partners honour their commitments to complete the Single Market ; however , as should be clear from the figures quoted in Chapter 5 , the assertion that EEC membership has been good for Britain is open to question . |
| 15 | That would have been good for Britain , for employment , for British Airways , for British Aerospace and for Rolls-Royce . |
| 16 | ‘ The positive image has been good for business , ’ Norton says . |
| 17 | Mind you , it 's been good for business , so I suppose I should n't complain . ’ |
| 18 | He said : ’ I 'm aware that what we 're saying may be used but we do believe it is the most energising thing that has happened in my 21 years as a GP It has been good for care , public health and management . ’ |
| 19 | It would n't have been good for staff morale . |
| 20 | The year has been good for programme sales , particularly overseas where sales increased more than a half to £18.8m . |
| 21 | It might have been better for Butler to have set reason apart from the whole hierarchy of conscience , self love , benevolence , and particular passions and allotted it the role of ascribing different degrees of authority to each , that is , of saying how they ought to relate to each other mutually . |
| 22 | It would have been better for employers and workpeople if they had been in the disciplinary grip of machinery … |
| 23 | If these seem relatively modest benefits , it is perhaps more useful to consider whether a more radical and comprehensive anti-monopoly policy would have been better for society . |
| 24 | It would have been better for Andrewes ’ literary reputation , and far better for the history of the next reign if he had not done so . |
| 25 | Ninety one balls and one four , and not a typical DaSilva innings and one does wonders whether in the end it might have been better for Sri Lanka to play at a more natural game . |
| 26 | They are good for parasites and prostate trouble . |
| 27 | ‘ The EC 's ‘ four freedoms ’ are good for multinationals but bad for our farmers , our small companies , our poor , our environment and the third world . ’ |
| 28 | With no indigenous buskers to be seen , the pickings are good for gaijin ( literally outside people ) like 34-year-old Dave , from Silsden near Keighley in Yorkshire . |
| 29 | These are generally large sausages that are sold for slicing , mainly to beaten cold , but some are good for cooking . |
| 30 | As Andrew Jones says , ‘ ACT is discriminatory , and it discriminates against the kind of companies that , generally speaking , are good for Britain . ’ |