Example sentences of "good for [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is true , certainly , that feeling good for no particular reason , and the sensation of warmth , do not involve objects or contents that can be said to be determinate in a certain sense . |
| 2 | ‘ British publishers have had it good for a long time . |
| 3 | Well I do n't know , I think he 's covered up he 's not good for a long time , I did n't know he was that bad . |
| 4 | Well like that 's good for a wee girl who 's still going to college and what not right ? |
| 5 | A sideways knit band is good for a button-to-the-neck cardigan or jacket . |
| 6 | The prospects may therefore be good for a long-term strategy which aims at both restricting the scale of most operating units and granting them a reasonable degree of operational autonomy in order to make participative democracy a feasible proposition , while developing further the economies of administration , co-ordination , etc. which are at present realised by large-scale enterprises . |
| 7 | This is inappropriate for a number of reasons : first , because you are primarily assessed on relative quality ( " good for a second-year dissertation " ) rather than absolute quality ; second , because there is no point in simply rewriting someone else 's ideas ( you might as well submit their original book or article instead ) ; and third , because it underestimates the possibilities of disagreement , adaptation and development which exist in all areas of the field . |
| 8 | The forelock-touching peasant is still around in print , and always good for a condescending laugh . |
| 9 | Each RAID level is good for a particular kind of data . |
| 10 | Third : sign the biggest , nastiest , quickest fast bowler you can find and make sure he 's good for a full season and wo n't go missing half the time . ’ |
| 11 | E any good for a titty wank |
| 12 | No , no good for a titty wank |
| 13 | In the colonial context , the word ‘ participation ’ had an uncomfortable ring about it , quite alien to the ideology of the political ‘ status quo ’ , and the colonial administration and agricultural extension service knowing what was good for the African cultivator . |
| 14 | Relaxation is good for the immune system — and will help you fight off illness . |
| 15 | RELAXATION is good for the immune system and will help fight off illness , according to devotees of yoga . |
| 16 | Then he noticed an open gate and beyond it a side door which he approached ; here he was told that his tickets were only good for the front door while the side doors were reserved for members . |
| 17 | He secured two admission tickets but when he arrived he found they were only good for the front doors where ‘ already hundreds were waiting ’ . |
| 18 | The WRU ( bless ‘ em ) are also good for the odd pronouncement . |
| 19 | He opened by stating that he felt ‘ that a complete separation of crime from sin would not be good for the moral law and might be disastrous for the criminal ’ . |
| 20 | What held good for Stoke Poges held good for the Western Isles ; Kathleen Raine has given us a description , worthy of Thomas Gray , of the burial of an old Scotswoman : |
| 21 | He was disavowed by the Dutch government and compelled to leave hastily , but his buccaneering had done no good for the federal idea or for the Netherlands . |
| 22 | The lesson , I think , there is to pick a course that will create the sort of environment in which performance can be maximised , rather than to pick something which appeared to have more vocational use , but may not be as good for the individual student as a course that he or she will enjoy . |
| 23 | That monocle would be no good for the classless image . |
| 24 | He said : ‘ I 've always maintained that Paul Byrne is too good for the Irish League . |
| 25 | I do n't believe that the method of selling cars with huge discounts that has been going on in the US for some time is good for the companies , and I also do n't think long term it 's good for the industrial base of the country and therefore ultimately for the customer . |
| 26 | Some say it is good for the Prime Minister to mix with the crowd and others that for a Prime Minister it is less than dignified . |
| 27 | Heath was n't particularly good for business and Callaghan was n't particularly good for the working class . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ The call-offs mean that if anybody plays well against Germany he will have done himself a lot of good for the immediate future . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ It 's good for the American patrimony ’ , he says , explaining that when the tax advantage was removed , many important works that might have been donated were instead sold at auction to non-Americans whose countries have strict patrimony laws . |
| 30 | This theory of a ‘ verbal inspiration ’ especially held good for the Greek translation of the Old Testament , commonly called that of the Seventy ( Septuagint ) , made at Alexandria in the third century bc . |