Example sentences of "are good [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are better times for this ! |
| 2 | It seems that they ( William Hills ) still think that Arsenal and Liverpool are better bets for the league . |
| 3 | Hence , they are better value for money and potentially a stronger unit which will last longer . |
| 4 | It is sometimes argued that certain subjects are better vehicles for a liberal education than others , because they are concerned with the human rather than merely the natural , or are reflexive rather than merely instrumental ; hence the term ‘ liberal ’ has been most often associated with the arts , and in this century social sciences , though it has been used of some science courses as well ( e.g. ‘ Liberal Studies in Science ’ ) . |
| 5 | At the same time , we have been able to achieve a dramatic reduction in inflation — which , because it is better than the European Community average , means that there are better prospects for exporting firms and for the jobs in them . |
| 6 | Not only that , it also seems to be true that certain herbs are good company for other plants , discouraging pests and diseases ; for instance , chives and garlic have some ability to prevent roses being infected with black spot , and chamomile is said to improve the health of young plants if they are weak and slow to grow . |
| 7 | Coastal walking or following our lowland canals are good options for the stalking season . |
| 8 | Although they are good birds for many beginners , they cost about £700 , which makes them too expensive for all but the most dedicated . |
| 9 | Those are good principles for any taxation system . |
| 10 | Secondly , he demonstrates that fractals are good models for an impressive variety of natural objects . |
| 11 | Items like smoked salmon ( usually from Scotland or Ireland when served in the UK and the Loire when served in France ) , oyster , artichokes and asparagus , are regular first course features on French and international menus — and whether in English or a foreign language they are good choices for the figure- and health-conscious . |
| 12 | Chinese food runs the gamut — from the healthy fish and vegetable soups , steamed fish and rice , and quick-cooked shellfish and stir- fries , all of which are good choices for the figure-conscious — to the calorie-laden sticky spare ribs , deep-fried batter prawns and spring rolls , and glutinous sweet-and-sour sauced dishes . |
| 13 | Nevertheless the number and wide variety of innovative schemes described in another SAD publication are good omens for the future . |
| 14 | ‘ There are good signs for Norway to qualify for the World Cup . |
| 15 | The union often gets a bad press , and there are good reasons for this . |
| 16 | But , as we have just seen ( p. 127 ) , there are good reasons for thinking that the overt CR evoked by a CS for shock may fail to show context-specificity in spite of the fact that contextual cues can help the retrieval of associative information . |
| 17 | But the law has never felt obliged to follow such rational simplicity if there are good reasons for doing otherwise . |
| 18 | There are good reasons for continuing to support the moratorium . |
| 19 | These are good reasons for expecting psychological well-being to be at risk . |
| 20 | While this condition will exist anyway as soon as the clutch has disengaged , there are good reasons for allowing the rotor to rotate freely . |
| 21 | It may well be that there are good reasons for following customary practices or for rejecting them in favour of new ones , but teachers ought to know what these reasons are , for it is this knowledge which provides for adaptability , the alternative realization of principles through techniques appropriate to different instructional settings . |
| 22 | Law binds not because it says it does ( although it does say just that ) but because there are good reasons for accepting its claim to mandatoriness and these good reasons have to do with what law can do for us in certain situations of social opportunity , difficulty and peril . |
| 23 | There are good reasons for welcoming alternative schemes . |
| 24 | There are good reasons for not inflicting pain on animals , but no particular point is made , except rhetorically , by grounding this in rights . |
| 25 | Nor are the prospects , even for Galway , as bad as they appear at the moment : workers reportedly wept openly in the Digital canteen when told their jobs were being phased out over the next 12 months , but the fear that most of the subcontractors that served DEC will have to close as well is not likely to be realised : where a company has a good relationship with a subcontractor , there are good reasons for maintaining that relationship even after a plant closes , and work should start flowing across the Irish Sea all the way to Galway from Scotland . |
| 26 | There are good reasons for caution . |
| 27 | There are good reasons for this approach . |
| 28 | As was suggested earlier , there are good reasons for not identifying democracy solely with a system of government ; nevertheless we must look a little more closely at the notion of consent . |
| 29 | In fact , there are good reasons for supposing that the classic authoritarians of the study by Adorno et al . |
| 30 | But there are good reasons for a principled limitation to linguistic contexts : first , the relation between a lexical item and extralinguistic contexts is often crucially mediated by the purely linguistic contexts ( consider the possible relations between horse and the extra-linguistic situation in That 's a horse and There are no horses here ) ; second , any aspect of an extra-linguistic context can in principle be mirrored linguistically ; and , third , linguistic context is more easily controlled and manipulated . |