Example sentences of "[conj] it is good for " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , I would add that it is best for you to experiment with your paper stretching technique . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 : |
| 4 | 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 … |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | The Bank of England , old nanny that she is at heart , always believes that it is good for her charges to learn patience . |
| 9 | They do it so rarely that it is good for them . |
| 10 | Do n't buy a hard bed in the mistaken belief that it is good for you . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Many experts claim that it is good for your growing baby , too . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | At first you resent it , but then you get used to it , and it is good for being a creative writer . |
| 16 | She lets them come and go as they please and it is good for the crew . |
| 17 | There is alot of talent in this town and it is good for people to hear it . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | A l neroli is a lot in face creams cos it is good for the skin . |
| 21 | The experience of tragic art confirms that the relation of pleasure and awareness is two-way ; if a welcoming of the sharpest awareness of things from which we most deeply recoil , without any reservations of the sort of ‘ This hurts but it is good for me ’ , can make even the fate of Lear or Oedipus enjoyable , it would seem that there can be no involuntary quickening of awareness without joy . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Save the rainforest because it is good for us . |
| 24 | No true supporter of any country would want Wales to remain in the doldrums , but would rather see them return to a competitive level because it is good for the game . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | In short , while it is good for third party service providers , it is administratively inefficient for investors , brokers and companies and ties up capital needlessly in the securities system . |
| 27 | Possibly this is why the argument as to whether it is better for a woman with young children to stay at home or go out to work goes round and round in circles . |
| 28 | In my view , what should happen here is that cats should not be allowed to roam around in places where they could have a dramatic adverse effect on populations of animals , even though it is better for the cat . |