Example sentences of "[was/were] for the good " in BNC.
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| 1 | While everyone agreed the changes in living standards since the film was made were for the better , there was some nostalgia for farming as it was when they were young . |
| 2 | ‘ Some were for the better but a lot were for worse . |
| 3 | Secretly , under layers and wads of protest , was her admission that he was right , that these things were for the best . |
| 4 | Whatever lay ahead , maybe it was for the best . |
| 5 | ‘ They said it was for the best , ’ said Gloria . |
| 6 | We were both sad , but it was for the best . |
| 7 | Dad did n't speak to Mum on the phone , and he did n't see her , knowing that this was for the best in the long run . |
| 8 | ‘ Father O'Neill has gone — it was for the best , ’ he told her . |
| 9 | Despite his brotherly teasing and criticisms , he was devoted to her and would not be speaking in this fashion unless he felt it was for the best . |
| 10 | ‘ But it was for the best that it did n't survive , ’ Cynthia said quickly . |
| 11 | I thought it was for the best . |
| 12 | I decided to decide that it was for the best . |
| 13 | Perhaps it was for the best . |
| 14 | All I can say is that it was for the best of reasons . ’ |
| 15 | Another winner from Newcastle was for the best overall score from the two rounds of golf which Steve Ridley , surveyor won . |
| 16 | As it happened , it was for the best . |
| 17 | ‘ So everything was for the best , Maggie ? ’ |
| 18 | Her soul , God rest it , it has left — People say " it was for the best " . |
| 19 | Well , maybe it was for the best . |
| 20 | Glass accepts this was for the best . |
| 21 | Besides , in some ways the change was for the better . |
| 22 | No doubt this was for the good practical reason that as royal taxation became more frequent separate and additional councils for the church 's own business became more inconvenient : there was a limit to the number of times the clergy could be summoned from their parishes and livings to provincial assemblies in London or elsewhere . |