Example sentences of "[Wh det] [was/were] good for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which was good for the soul , but bad for knees and dignity . |
| 2 | Given the world as he saw it , Bill was seeking to do what was best for the United States . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Brucan 's reference to the benefits of abandoning the ‘ idiocy of rural life ’ was the typical presumption of a Marxist intellectual that he knew what was best for the benighted peasant . |
| 5 | Once we were at Arrancay together , I thought we 'd be able to talk it out — decide what was best for the future . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 : |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They all wanted whatever was best for the nine children they all missed so much . |