Example sentences of "[conj] it [is] good for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Not really because it seems to do any good but just because the thinking is that it 's better for him than other commercial products , ’ says Kathleen . |
| 2 | I think we 're all agreed that it 's better for us to die honourably together in this way than to risk a worse fate at the hands of the enemy . " |
| 3 | However , I would add that it is best for you to experiment with your paper stretching technique . |
| 4 | While some workers believe that the best place for a child is within a family , and that it is better for a child to be placed transracially than to have no family , anxiety is increasing about the outcome of transracial placements . |
| 5 | 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 : |
| 6 | It is small wonder that Dr Underwood finds it a ‘ little disconcerting ’ as the inference of the inquiry , as far as it has gone at present , would appear to be that it is better for a child to stay in East London sleeping irregular hours in ill ventilated shelters and eating fish and chips than to have fresh air conditions in one of our Camps with regular hours of sleep and plenty of well prepared wholesome food ( in which vegetables fresh from the garden play a large part ) forming a diet balanced in accordance with the best advice obtainable from the Board of Education and others … |
| 7 | I agree that it is better for the pigs to get beat in Europe , but it would be good if they progressed a little , no further than we did but enough to get tired out . |
| 8 | Their argument is that it is good for the tournament , a s well as the players concerned , if as many as possible of the higher ranked competitors survive the early rounds . |
| 9 | Androgyny , or what he calls the ‘ liberal supposition ’ that it is good for men and women to become more and more alike , creates in Mailer an aversion , ‘ a species of aesthetic nausea ’ ( pp. 134 — 5 ) . |
| 10 | The Bank of England , old nanny that she is at heart , always believes that it is good for her charges to learn patience . |
| 11 | They do it so rarely that it is good for them . |
| 12 | Do n't buy a hard bed in the mistaken belief that it is good for you . |
| 13 | The common-sense view of sleep is that it is good for you , providing an opportunity for recovery from fatigue , is essential for growth , and crucial in cure from illness . |
| 14 | Many experts claim that it is good for your growing baby , too . |
| 15 | ‘ I like the idea of organic food because it does n't get treated with pesticides and other chemicals and it 's better for the environment , too . |
| 16 | So they can stay on normally , in some part of the year it is dark , but yet there 's other people around and about , and they get in situ before very late , so the twelve and twelve suits them , and it 's better for health and safety , and erm , in other , Mr Chairman . |
| 17 | Because , you know , it , it 's cheaper to run your vehicles on low sulphur diesel , and it is because you do n't get the deterioration in it , and it 's better for the , it 's better for the atmosphere . |
| 18 | I need , at the moment in terms of corrective action on quiffs , I am sending quiffs out to procedure owners , and I need to know whether suggestive procedure changes or not , and it 's better for me if it is out in that order then I can go through and mark the quiffs off as being erm the changes or not . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | She says it 's ages since she 's done any exercise , and it 's good for her . |
| 21 | She 's OK ’ with Mrs Lennox and it 's good for her to get away from me for a bit just now and again . |
| 22 | And it 's good for us to recognise and to be aware and to realize , that in a day when we are so often just numbers , that as individuals we matter to God . |
| 23 | Money from rubbish — it 's a can of worms that 's every entrepenur 's dream and it 's good for the environment . |
| 24 | Milan is full of excellent coffee shops and it is better for the visitor to choose what appears to be best for him , her or them . |
| 25 | Choice of equipment is vital and it is better for a beginner not to buy his clubs before going to a professional for his lessons . |
| 26 | At first you resent it , but then you get used to it , and it is good for being a creative writer . |
| 27 | She lets them come and go as they please and it is good for the crew . |
| 28 | There is alot of talent in this town and it is good for people to hear it . |
| 29 | ‘ It is good for the passengers to have a choice of airlines and it is good for the airlines themselves to have to respond and innovate . |
| 30 | ‘ That 's when I brought the kids in — I 've never been afraid to do it before and I wo n't hesitate to do it again if it is best for the club . |