Example sentences of "[was/were] good for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | the wheels were better for the wetting . |
| 2 | Powered aircraft naturally flew more frequently and the consequent draughts were good for the aeroplane and bad for the fungi . |
| 3 | If there were ever any doubts about whether the arts were good for the economy of New York City , a new study seeks to prove that they are . |
| 4 | When the headmaster telephoned the boy 's father , he was told by that unusually permissive parent that , if the teachers could not hold his son 's attention , it was better for the boy to educate himself at home . |
| 5 | The weather was better for the flight back along the north coast , and we got views of the 8,000-foot-plus Picos de Europa which we 'd missed on the way down . |
| 6 | The parents decided it was better for the child to be taken away . ’ |
| 7 | That he was not abstracting water but merely utilizing it and returning to the river the same amount in improved condition , because contact with the turbine had aerated it , and it was better for the fish . |
| 8 | Surely that was better for the children ? |
| 9 | ( 2 ) ( a ) The justices were under a duty to consider whether it was better for the child for a secure accommodation order to be made rather than no order at all being made upon the application ( in accordance with section 1(5) of the Children Act 1989 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ The justices were under a duty to consider whether it was better for the child for a secure accommodation order to be made rather than no order at all being made upon the application in accordance with section 1(5) of the Children Act . |
| 11 | He reckoned that it was better for the new Iranian prime minister , Shapour Bakhtiar , that the Shah stayed in Muslim country and he thought that Hasans influence would help " keep Khomeini under control " |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 : |
| 17 | Haldane also saw that there must be evolutionary conflicts between different levels of selection , that what was good for the individual might not be good for the species , what was good for a male might not be good for a female , and , above all , what was good for a gene might not be good for an individual . |
| 18 | In the colonial context , the word ‘ participation ’ had an uncomfortable ring about it , quite alien to the ideology of the political ‘ status quo ’ , and the colonial administration and agricultural extension service knowing what was good for the African cultivator . |
| 19 | Which was good for the soul , but bad for knees and dignity . |
| 20 | He thought it was good for the RISC environment but he 's content with the Windows solution Univel is adopting for the Intel environment , which is apparently on the brink of shipping . |
| 21 | Univel Inc president Joel Applebaum last month said in an interview that the Sun Microsystems Inc WABI Windows Application Binary Interface ‘ is not baked yet ’ : he thought it was good for the RISC environment but he 's content with the Windows system that Univel Inc is adopting for the iAPX-86 environment which it is apparently on the brink of shipping ; meanwhile , Univel says it is selling into Europe , South America and the Middle East . |
| 22 | Afterwards we all said that it was good for the game that the transplant of power which had begun at the Sydney Football Stadium in our bi-centennial year had taken so robustly . |
| 23 | I thing recently the bus service has got dreadful since they brought in er private buses to their local areas , it was good for the first few months , but when they find out that its not paying at all , they take them off , they do n't tell you , the bus just disappears so your left with the usual one that used to be on . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's evolution ; when we still lived in caves we used to go out and hunt and whoever brought back the mammoth or whatever ate the best meat and got to fuck the women , and all that was good for the human race . |
| 25 | And it did n't worry him when he got into the sensitive parts with his drill ; my strangled cries were of no avail and he carried on remorselessly to the end : I had the impression that Hector thought it was cissy to feel pain , or maybe he was of the opinion that suffering was good for the soul . |
| 26 | And it was er They used to great pride in their in their er stacks because they had to make them as neat as they could and er well built , so that if the So that w that was good for the To keep the the wind keep them dry . |
| 27 | Seen through this end of history 's telescope , the Great Depression was good for the Royal Bank . |
| 28 | said this change of emphasis was good for the profession as a whole . |
| 29 | In racing terms the going was good for the championships which were split into four age groups … in all of them the start was like a cavalry charge as they ran off to tackle the 6000 metre long course … the best local performance came in the girls race where Nicky Slater from carterton who runs in the Radley colours came second … |
| 30 | ‘ We scored some quality goals and it was good for the fans whose support so far this season has been fantastic . ’ |