Example sentences of "is good for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It turns out that the public has a right to know only what those who control the media think is good for them . |
| 3 | They are prone to accumulate more nutrient than is good for them ; and , of course , they tend also to accumulate toxins . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There is no doubt that most people in Britain eat far more than they need , and probably more than is good for them . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The punters , who have by now learned what is good for them , have not been opposing him . |
| 8 | Which means that both parties to the negotiation must feel that the outcome is good for them . |
| 9 | They do it so rarely that it is good for them . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | Consequently , they 're always coming in a bit behind the boys because the boys have been playing for a bit longer , and I think it 's very important that if girls are being offered the opportunity that the opportunity is good for them , and that it 's not going to put them off the game of football because they 're always in the position where the boys consider themselves a bit better . |
| 12 | At a time when English officialdom has been worrying about the fact that some among their top youngsters are playing more golf than is good for them , Stevely has had the same feelings where his own pupils are concerned . |
| 13 | Going up and down tracks is good for them and makes them very relaxed and happy . |
| 14 | Still to come on Central News … the patients who say pressure is good for them . |
| 15 | ‘ She will want to talk forever , longer than is good for her , ’ he said , very softly . |
| 16 | His motto seems to be ‘ what is good for me , must be good for everybody else too ’ . |
| 17 | Besides , meanwhile , I 'm still smoking more than is good for me . |
| 18 | The experience of tragic art confirms that the relation of pleasure and awareness is two-way ; if a welcoming of the sharpest awareness of things from which we most deeply recoil , without any reservations of the sort of ‘ This hurts but it is good for me ’ , can make even the fate of Lear or Oedipus enjoyable , it would seem that there can be no involuntary quickening of awareness without joy . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I would n't recommend this one it 's just this is good for me because it 's got sort of |
| 22 | It is good for me to get out and do the shopping ; I enjoy that bit of fresh air every day , and it is something I have got to do because this is when I meet people . |
| 23 | That is why I think it is good for me to go back to Scotland to remember that there is a world outside London and television . |
| 24 | How else is the good reader to establish what is good for him or her individually ? |
| 25 | Encourage her to run faster as exercise is good for him ? |
| 26 | Babur is good for him , getting him to do things like this . |
| 27 | A certain amount of stress is good for us . |
| 28 | Save the rainforest because it is good for us . |
| 29 | Exercise is good for us and gives us a much better shape . |
| 30 | Everyone knows that reading is good for us , but terribly hard work ; the satirical novel , in its currently predominant Sharpeville-mode , is one answer to the dilemma . |