Example sentences of "more good [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some individuals , affirmative action may still do more good than harm . |
| 2 | That may mean no more than that such a scheme may do more good than harm and that it would do more good than the obvious alternatives . |
| 3 | On looking back , I now realise that corporal punishment , if administered justly and wisely , does more good than harm . |
| 4 | In 1936 , Bertrand Russell , after rehearsing the expected consequences of a new war , posed the question : ‘ Can we imagine any great modern war which would do more good than harm ? ’ |
| 5 | Who , today , believes that a nuclear war would do more good than harm ? |
| 6 | To meet this point I think one must say that Bentham 's view was , in effect , that a right action must not only do more good than harm , but must also be such that neither the particular good it does , nor any other comparable good which might have substituted for it , could have been achieved at less cost in terms of harm done . |
| 7 | We shall then be in a much better position to state when and where screening does more good than harm . |
| 8 | There seems no prospect that screening for osteoporosis will meet the basic requirements for a screening programme — namely , that those offered screening must be better off as a result , that overall the screening programme must do more good than harm , and that screening must represent a better use of health care resources than other competing demands . |
| 9 | It 's only recently that they 've been doing more good than harm and it 's therefore ironic that people have tended to give so much publicity in the last twenty or thirty years to the things that have gone wrong , to the disasters which sometimes do happen with medicines , because really medicines now , as compared with thirty or forty years ago , are doing a tremendous amount of good . |