Example sentences of "it [is] good for them " in BNC.

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1 It 's better for them to see their loved ones as they remember them . ’
2 but we 're not allowed to put posters on the walls you know , it 's better for them to stick them at
3 But we 've got a young side at Cardiff now and it 's good for them to play against these players , to see that they 're only human beings after all . ’
4 It 's good for them .
5 I mean it 's good for them learning to be amongst a lot of children and they soon learn that erm they ca n't have their way .
6 It 's good for them though .
7 It 's good for them .
8 It 's good for them !
9 I do n't think it 's good for them moving them about from school to school do you ?
10 Commitment to sport has to be freely given ; it has to be fun ; it can not be foisted on to the poor or the wayward from above because it is good for them .
11 They do it so rarely that it is good for them .
12 The daily ritual of meal-times , for example , may often contain a wealth of deliberately and non-deliberately imparted information for the child , in part confirming his status as a child ( children should be seen and not heard , children should finish their cabbage because it is good for them ) , in part defining the stages of growing up ( older children sit on ‘ proper ’ chairs , drink out of ‘ proper ’ cups , and use knives and forks ) , and in part defining and reinforcing certain adult identities ( father carves the joint , mother brings food from the stove ) .
13 For the normal continuation of the museums ' collecting and activities , it is better for them not to collect pictures by European masters for kopeks in Russia , but to buy equipment and restoration materials with serious money in the West .
14 Surely it is better for them to strive to be literate than to engage themselves in the fruitless task of emulating the speech of the hearing .
15 In the fourth Gospel Jesus tells his followers , heart-broken because he is going to leave them , that it is better for them that he should do so :
16 The county has a view about golf courses — that if there is to be such a development it is better for them to be sited not on good farming land , or in naturally beautiful areas , but on the outskirts of towns .
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