Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] for [art] good [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But Great Malvern was worth visiting , if only for the best one-liner of the conference , from Joan Beck , chief inspector of Doncaster SSD : ‘ Equal opportunities is all very well until someone else gets the job you wanted . ’
2 A separate report indicated that Iran may have been working on the development of such a weapon on and off for a good decade .
3 Ant : And now for the best bit !
4 It is not a bad idea to say ‘ thank you ’ every now and then for the good things in your life .
5 The following quotation from Norman Conway , a grammar school chemistry teacher interviewed by Brian Jackson and Dennis Marsden ( 1962 ) , shows how the competition for scarce university places ( and ultimately for a better job for the teacher ) , especially in the context of bureaucratic mass-assessment can allow the instrumental pursuit of extrinsic rewards to drive out the expensive ‘ educational side ’ :
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