Example sentences of "good for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Relaxation is good for the immune system — and will help you fight off illness . |
| 3 | RELAXATION is good for the immune system and will help fight off illness , according to devotees of yoga . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He secured two admission tickets but when he arrived he found they were only good for the front doors where ‘ already hundreds were waiting ’ . |
| 6 | The WRU ( bless ‘ em ) are also good for the odd pronouncement . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 : |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | That monocle would be no good for the classless image . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ I 've always maintained that Paul Byrne is too good for the Irish League . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Heath was n't particularly good for business and Callaghan was n't particularly good for the working class . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ The call-offs mean that if anybody plays well against Germany he will have done himself a lot of good for the immediate future . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | er I 'm slightly worried about the effect on the Olympic movement of Atlanta being chosen only in the sense that er that this is the , I think the sixth time in 25 years that a North American city has got it and it does look rather as if the er pressures are now , on the financial side , are now coming very much from the North American continent and I 'm not at all sure that that 's really good for the Olympic movement . |
| 20 | Production tends to be focused on very large plants , erm , and each plant will produce erm , a particular good for the whole world market and so therefore trade must , must increase . |
| 21 | The General Household Survey asks respondents to rate their overall health as good , poor or fairly good for the previous year . |
| 22 | If protection is good for the Welsh water authority , why is it not good for the Wrexham water company ? |
| 23 | The preference for the parent-child relationship as a source of routine moral and emotional support seems to hold good for the white majority , but perhaps less so for people with different ethnic cultural backgrounds . |
| 24 | Seen through this end of history 's telescope , the Great Depression was good for the Royal Bank . |
| 25 | The influx of new citizens from Russia may be exacerbating the friction in the settlements being established in the Israeli-administered territories won from the country 's Arab neighbours in the various attacks on the country since 1948 , and it represents an exodus of skills that Russia can ill afford to lose , but it is doing nothing but good for the vibrant information technology sector of the Israeli economy . |
| 26 | Now if that 's good for the local authority goose , why is n't it good for the banking gander when so much more money is involved . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's evolution ; when we still lived in caves we used to go out and hunt and whoever brought back the mammoth or whatever ate the best meat and got to fuck the women , and all that was good for the human race . |
| 28 | ‘ It just did n't look good for the British car industry which needs all the help it can get . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ What you predict is very well , and good for the intellectual pulses . |