Example sentences of "[was/were] good for the [noun] " 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 parents decided it was better for the child to be taken away . ’ |
| 6 | ( 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 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Surely that was better for the children ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 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 | look I said I do n't mind vinyl , I do n't mind good vinyl the only good , the only one that , it was good for the toilet , but I got it in a pack cos we 've got such a small single toilet |
| 17 | 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 … |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | said this change of emphasis was good for the profession as a whole . |
| 21 | 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 : |
| 22 | ‘ We scored some quality goals and it was good for the fans whose support so far this season has been fantastic . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Which was good for the soul , but bad for knees and dignity . |
| 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 | I was only doing what I thought was best for the hotel . |
| 27 | Given the world as he saw it , Bill was seeking to do what was best for the United States . ’ |
| 28 | In these two cases , the motivation for the institutional preference was quite different : one based on what was felt to be best for the sufferer , and the other largely on what was best for the carer . |
| 29 | Once we were at Arrancay together , I thought we 'd be able to talk it out — decide what was best for the future . |