Example sentences of "[be] good for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Expensive gestures may be good for political show ; they will also mean more waste dumped in the wrong places . |
| 2 | There is a certain medicinal thinking behind the labelling , a feeling that a book that is difficult to read and difficult to obtain meaning and enjoyment from , must be good for young people in some way . |
| 3 | Its true reasoning was that doubled car consumption would be good for General Motors and what was good for General Motors , as its president , Charles E. Wilson , memorably announced as his political philosophy , was good for the country . |
| 4 | On this line of reasoning , two humans mentioned separately might be good for plural reference , while a human and an animal will be less good ( although plural reference is by no means ruled out in many cases ) . |
| 5 | ‘ What we saw this evening has to be good for British tennis . ’ |
| 6 | They must be good for manual dexterity and keeping children occupied . ’ |