Example sentences of "what is good for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be for animal welfare , as distinct from merely being against animal cruelty , is to believe that we have a duty to improve the quality of animal life , by ensuring — so far as this is possible — that other animals are the beneficiaries of what is good for them , not merely that we should avoid being cruel to them . |
| 2 | If the people at Chesky know what is good for them , they will give ‘ Wild Earl ’ his head and record whatever he wants : there is almost no other pianist around playing his kind of repertoire with his kind of zest . |
| 3 | The punters , who have by now learned what is good for them , have not been opposing him . |
| 4 | How else is the good reader to establish what is good for him or her individually ? |
| 5 | His motto seems to be ‘ what is good for me , must be good for everybody else too ’ . |
| 6 | This is just the objectivity which is to be claimed in general for the good ; what is good for me now is not necessarily good for you or for me at other times , nor even what I now spontaneously prefer , it is what anyone would spontaneously prefer for me if sufficiently aware from my present viewpoint . |
| 7 | Well , most obviously I have learnt that what is good for me can not necessarily be applied to everyone , although I still tend to dish out unsolicited advice . |
| 8 | At the same time , we are often too busy to eat regularly , grabbing what is easiest rather than what is good for us . |
| 9 | It believes that it knows best and what is good for us and for our children . |
| 10 | Life do n't mean doing only what is good for you , Floyd . |