Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [adj] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Organically grown fresh fruit and vegetables are better for you and the environment . |
| 2 | Herbs are good for you , they 're a medicine |
| 3 | Times are dangerous for us all . |
| 4 | But people can only provide for their own welfare in a capitalist society if opportunities are available for them in the labour market- and for most , because of transport and accessibility problems , child-care issues and constraints on long-distance migration , it must be the very local labour market . |
| 5 | The recordings are available for you if you wish or will be available for you if you wish to er improve your memory on what has been said during the discussion periods . |
| 6 | But Tory backbenchers are desperate for him to end the drift . |
| 7 | Parents were reluctant for them to leave home too early — particularly because of the loss of income to the family budget that would ensue — and there was a fear also of the independent youth culture with its sexual rituals , such as the ‘ monkey parade ’ , public courting areas where youth proudly proclaimed both its independence and sexuality . |
| 8 | Women had rarely previously been members of Friendly Societies , the extent of their ill-health had been unknown when the Act was framed , and administrators were unprepared for it . |
| 9 | Jane 's chimp-watching patrols were impossible for him , but he visited often until his death from cancer , which left her devastated . |
| 10 | There is a sense of effort trying to vanquish inertia here , as though physical movements were difficult for him ; but the prevailing impression is of a man who found comfort and relief in an ordered and disciplined life . |
| 11 | He remarked that Royal Jubilees were unlucky for him : at the Georgian celebrations he had been injured by stone throwing . |
| 12 | Please help to publicise membership in class — ‘ stand up ’ boards are available for you to put up in class . |
| 13 | And booksellers were ready for it with pretty much the right books at the right prices to enable them to compete effectively for the consumer 's cautiously placed pound . |
| 14 | The next few years were difficult for them all , but when Eb came home , gassed and disabled , he had done his best to put the shop back on a business footing — going in every day to work behind the counter , keeping the books , and not letting customers run up bills they could n't pay . |
| 15 | Going up and down tracks is good for them and makes them very relaxed and happy . |
| 16 | I believe that truths which were there from the beginning in the Christian faith can lie dormant until the social and psychological conditions are right for them to be perceived . |
| 17 | Truths which were there from the beginning in the Christian faith can lie dormant until the social and psychological conditions are right for them to be perceived . |
| 18 | Furthermore , people often associate the feeling that families are part of human nature with the further assumption that families are good for you . |
| 19 | I 'm glad the class was all right on 11 March and especially pleased that things are better for you and Bob ; also that there was such good news of your daughter . |
| 20 | This means that if you hate , say , cottage cheese or liver , do not feel that you simply must include these foods in your diet because you have heard that these things are good for you , or because a diet sheet says you must have them . |
| 21 | ‘ Of course , I realize that things are different for you , living in 1990 and all that . |
| 22 | How will things be different for me ? |
| 23 | That 's what I mean by things being different for you than for me . ’ |
| 24 | Jamie Blandford admitted things were different for him than for his predecessors , most of whom he described as living in blissful ignorance of the world . |
| 25 | Littler was a wily businessman who knew very well that things were difficult for them and realized how badly they needed his business . |
| 26 | The nicest thing about Duckhurst Farm 's clear round afternoons is the atmosphere : they are meant to encourage horse and rider and the owners were happy for me to trot round for five minutes before we faced the first fence . |
| 27 | The patient 's relatives were keen for him to be an organ donor . |
| 28 | But one feels now that the man who stood on the soapbox and who made himself a target for eggs is ready for it . |
| 29 | So erm foreign earnings is important for us . |
| 30 | Your rooms are ready for you . |