Example sentences of "be for good " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were marching behind the others with great dignity , accountable as they had always been for good order and common sense and respectable behaviour . |
| 2 | If a species is to be excepted , it must be for good particular reasons . |
| 3 | Many of them will , I am sure , be for good . |
| 4 | I ca n't explain why , but it will probably be for good . |
| 5 | I 'm , I 'm going to have to cut you off , cos we 're running out of time , but I very much take the point you 're making , that it could 've had this trade effect on us , just in the last ten seconds Professor Hoskin , is it possible to predict what 's going to happen in the Soviet Union over the next six months , is it gon na be for good , or , or , . |
| 6 | I 'm not staying either , that 's for good and certain . ’ |
| 7 | We all know how vital it is for good health . |
| 8 | At least 30 per cent is for good causes . |
| 9 | Mr Todd , 73 , who is currently on tour with a new play , said : ‘ It is for good conduct and long service as far as I am concerned . ’ |
| 10 | Sometimes the bible surprises us a little bit of course , and it puts it finger on things that we perhaps do n't really want to talk about or we do n't even consider as sins and the bible is quite clear that not all sins are what we do often there what we do n't do in parable that Jesus told concerning the traveller , the man who went down to Jericho , we do n't condemn the priest and the levite for what they did , but we do condemn them for what they did n't do , their sin was not what they did , it was what they left undone , going over and looking at the man was very note worthy , as least there was some interest there and we do n't condemn them for that , but we do condemn them for hurrying along and not reaching out and helping the man in the Pistol of James and chapter four and verse seventeen James says there , any one then who knows the good he ought to do and does n't do it , sins so the sins that you and I comment or the sins rather that we are guilty of are not just the things that we do there of times the things that we do n't do and sometimes there more difficult for us to put a finger on , we can justify them so very easily its been said that all it needs for evil to triumph , is for good men to say or to do nothing well lets look at the , that , illu illustration there that we have in the second book of kings . |
| 11 | The main need of these artists was for good opportunities to exhibit their work ; unlike the equally celebrated group Die Brücke ( The Bridge ) they did not work closely together . |
| 12 | Triadic harmony , which may have originated in oral practice ( improvised parallel singing ) , was for good reasons highly developed in notated music but remains fundamental to most recorded music . |
| 13 | The forecast was for good , but that never means much . |