Example sentences of "[pron] be good for them " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again David may have learnt a valuable lesson — children need to learn how to select friends who are good for them . |
| 2 | It was Fred Wilton who devised the theory that if carp were offered HNV baits over a long enough period , i.e. through extensive pre-baiting , they would eventually recognise that they were good for them , and seek out these baits in preference to low protein types such as bread , worms , potatoes or , indeed , even natural food . |
| 3 | It 's better for them to see their loved ones as they remember them . ’ |
| 4 | but we 're not allowed to put posters on the walls you know , it 's better for them to stick them at |
| 5 | But we 've got a young side at Cardiff now and it 's good for them to play against these players , to see that they 're only human beings after all . ’ |
| 6 | It 's good for them . |
| 7 | I mean it 's good for them learning to be amongst a lot of children and they soon learn that erm they ca n't have their way . |
| 8 | It 's good for them though . |
| 9 | It 's good for them . |
| 10 | It 's good for them ! |
| 11 | I do n't think it 's good for them moving them about from school to school do you ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They do it so rarely that it is good for them . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | For the normal continuation of the museums ' collecting and activities , it is better for them not to collect pictures by European masters for kopeks in Russia , but to buy equipment and restoration materials with serious money in the West . |
| 16 | Surely it is better for them to strive to be literate than to engage themselves in the fruitless task of emulating the speech of the hearing . |
| 17 | In the fourth Gospel Jesus tells his followers , heart-broken because he is going to leave them , that it is better for them that he should do so : |
| 18 | The county has a view about golf courses — that if there is to be such a development it is better for them to be sited not on good farming land , or in naturally beautiful areas , but on the outskirts of towns . |
| 19 | Her guides would have lemon squash because it was better for them and less expensive . |
| 20 | The Presbyterian , Daniel Williams , persuaded a meeting of London Dissenting ministers not to present an address of thanks to the King for the Indulgence , and argued that " it was better for them to be reduced to their former hardships , than declare for measures destructive of the liberties of their country " . |
| 21 | Although I hated the very idea of selling things to people who might not want to buy them ( even if it was good for them ) I made quite a few sales , the main commission deriving from the sale of a Group Insurance Scheme to 32 men from the Times-Herald staff . |
| 22 | I think it was good for them . |
| 23 | She came to see him once , was shy and vague and noncommittal , later wrote to say it was best for them not to see each other again . |
| 24 | That , that , you know , if you give children complete freedom , they will , they will know , as it were , wh what 's best for them , you do n't need any , any rules , or anything . |
| 25 | Take our kids away from us because you reckon you know what 's good for them better than what we do ? |
| 26 | I do n't bother people and they had best not bother me if they know what 's good for them . |
| 27 | We have been responsible for launching our children into life and are well aware that we have made the usual crop of mistakes , even though we have tried our hardest to do what is best for them . |
| 28 | Better still , he loves my children even more than I do and wants what is best for them . |
| 29 | However , three powerful forces — habit , convenience , and ignorance or diffidence about alternatives — propel most people into this decision , rather than any conscious evaluation of what is best for them . |
| 30 | We believe that women have their own needs and are capable of deciding what is best for them . |