Example sentences of "is good [prep] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | looking at the main views on offer about the proper focus of RE and ; 2. setting out a possible rapprochement between these approaches which tries to bring together what is good about them , and add what they all tend to omit . |
| 2 | Commitment to sport has to be freely given ; it has to be fun ; it can not be foisted on to the poor or the wayward from above because it is good for them . |
| 3 | It turns out that the public has a right to know only what those who control the media think is good for them . |
| 4 | They are prone to accumulate more nutrient than is good for them ; and , of course , they tend also to accumulate toxins . |
| 5 | To be for animal welfare , as distinct from merely being against animal cruelty , is to believe that we have a duty to improve the quality of animal life , by ensuring — so far as this is possible — that other animals are the beneficiaries of what is good for them , not merely that we should avoid being cruel to them . |
| 6 | There is no doubt that most people in Britain eat far more than they need , and probably more than is good for them . |
| 7 | If the people at Chesky know what is good for them , they will give ‘ Wild Earl ’ his head and record whatever he wants : there is almost no other pianist around playing his kind of repertoire with his kind of zest . |
| 8 | The punters , who have by now learned what is good for them , have not been opposing him . |
| 9 | Which means that both parties to the negotiation must feel that the outcome is good for them . |
| 10 | They do it so rarely that it is good for them . |
| 11 | The daily ritual of meal-times , for example , may often contain a wealth of deliberately and non-deliberately imparted information for the child , in part confirming his status as a child ( children should be seen and not heard , children should finish their cabbage because it is good for them ) , in part defining the stages of growing up ( older children sit on ‘ proper ’ chairs , drink out of ‘ proper ’ cups , and use knives and forks ) , and in part defining and reinforcing certain adult identities ( father carves the joint , mother brings food from the stove ) . |
| 12 | Consequently , they 're always coming in a bit behind the boys because the boys have been playing for a bit longer , and I think it 's very important that if girls are being offered the opportunity that the opportunity is good for them , and that it 's not going to put them off the game of football because they 're always in the position where the boys consider themselves a bit better . |
| 13 | At a time when English officialdom has been worrying about the fact that some among their top youngsters are playing more golf than is good for them , Stevely has had the same feelings where his own pupils are concerned . |
| 14 | Going up and down tracks is good for them and makes them very relaxed and happy . |
| 15 | Still to come on Central News … the patients who say pressure is good for them . |