Example sentences of "good [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Smoking is not good for the lungs . |
| 2 | Cook is the most observant woman , and parlourmaids have to be of a noticing cast of mind , otherwise they would n't be any good for the job , would they , sir ? ’ |
| 3 | Their argument is that it is good for the tournament , a s well as the players concerned , if as many as possible of the higher ranked competitors survive the early rounds . |
| 4 | The ‘ trade union question ’ would cease to haunt the Labour Party and while that might upset some Conservatives it would be good for the country . |
| 5 | ‘ This will be good for the Montenegrin economy too . ’ |
| 6 | That did no good for the Smurfit price in Dublin , and maybe the nonchalance with which the group now treats the Square Mile reflects the hurt it felt at that piece of analysis . |
| 7 | But it wo n't be good for the party . ’ |
| 8 | Garlic ‘ good for the heart ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It 's good for the confidence to know that the captain wanted me , ’ Larkins said . |
| 10 | ‘ The clubs have that much power over players it 's as if they own them , and this is n't good for the game in the North . |
| 11 | Delta is good for the South and South-west and has a more interesting selection of commuter airlines . |
| 12 | There was a moral dilemma here , since what was good for the survival of the colony was harmful for others in a society which Makarenko wished to see participating in group ownership on collective lines . |
| 13 | Thus he had an inherent antipathy to the idea that law , even Church law , canon law , could achieve anything that was good for the Church . |
| 14 | Rather , it followed from the notion that the economic development of Britain and of the colonies was interdependent and complementary , and that what was good for Britain was good for the colonies . |
| 15 | That seemed to me to be a nice balance — good for our shareholders , good for our company and good for the country , as I saw it . |
| 16 | ‘ February is only a short month , so it is not going to have a devastating effect on figures , and there are now signs that the recession is bottoming out , which has to be good for the industry , ’ a spokesman said . |
| 17 | Clothes like this are good for the location filming on Going Live — warm , comfortable and bright , which is vital for TV |
| 18 | The new guarantee , good for the first year after purchase , would entitle consumers to free repairs , a replacement on loan or compensation if the product is not repaired within five days ( three for motor vehicles ) , the choice of a refund or replacement if the fault can not be put right in three attempts , or if the product is under repair for 30 days in any 12-month period . |
| 19 | It would be good for the Hong Kong citizens , and it would be inconsistent for Thatcher not to do this , since she has said , for the Falklands , that a people should be able to choose their own government , and we should n't give in to dictatorships . |
| 20 | Other varieties were made on farms in small quantities and were usually for home consumption only , but the resurgence of interest in farmhouse foods coupled with milk quotas that forced farmers to look for ways of using their surplus milk , has brought about a revolution in British cheesemaking , which is all to the good for the cheese eating public . |
| 21 | He sat down , knowing in his heart of hearts that for as long as Randy Mueller had a major part to play in UM 's corporate planning , his basic criteria would be : ‘ Is it good for the Corporation ? |
| 22 | Is it good for the United States ? |
| 23 | 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 : |
| 24 | Not only good for the deportment , this exercise frees the hands for programmes , literature and eating cooling icecream . |
| 25 | Its true reasoning was that doubled car consumption would be good for General Motors and what was good for General Motors , as its president , Charles E. Wilson , memorably announced as his political philosophy , was good for the country . |
| 26 | Not only did the BBC believe that it alone knew what was good for the audience , its pretence of impartiality was bogus and it absorbed and suffocated with banalities all differences of opinion : |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | How something that is good for the company will be good for them . |
| 29 | He secured two admission tickets but when he arrived he found they were only good for the front doors where ‘ already hundreds were waiting ’ . |
| 30 | 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 . |