Example sentences of "for [art] good [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Some were for the better but a lot were for worse . |
| 2 | The main reason for the better than expected results appeared to be a delay in expenditure by the regional governments but in the longer term he said that cuts in public expenditure had helped to reduce the budget deficit from a peak of almost 13 per cent of gross national product ( GNP ) in 1982 to 7.8 per cent in 1988 and 6.6 per cent in 1989 . |
| 3 | Changes for the better since his youth : ‘ Nothing . ’ |
| 4 | Full-time workers are engaged to promote ‘ The Maharishi Effect ’ — the theory that a community or area will be changed for the better if one per cent of the population meditates . |
| 5 | You have plenty of good ideas about how things can be changed for the better or how your home can be improved , modernised or beautified . |
| 6 | Unless we understand this process we will remain as superstitious and powerless to change the world for the better as were our forebearers . |
| 7 | I know people say well oh it 's , of course it 's changed ownership , well things change ownership and it can be for the better as well for the worst ca n't it ? |
| 8 | Employees change for the better when they work in the community . |
| 9 | Last season definitely took a turn for the better when Kerslake came , and Kelly has made this season 's success in no small part . |
| 10 | Permission was given for " making of such engine or Engine Buildings or Buildings for the better & more effectual discovery , working and conveying on of such mines and veins … |
| 11 | There are always two tasks for professionals involved in social change : to change society for the better and to change attitudes . |
| 12 | On a range of third-world issues their policies have taken a turn for the better and are broadly the same as those of Labour — support for the Palestinians , dialogue with the ANC , endorsement of the ‘ safe haven ’ for the Kurds . |
| 13 | Terry Philpot , in the second of two articles , suggests how the situation could be changed for the better and the profession portrayed more positively |
| 14 | Some of these may not be changes for the better and deserve to be treated with some suspicion : the tendency to de-humanise the author-function ; the license offered to slipshod architects of style to pinch and pastiche without mercy and the insinuation of academic jargon into criticism and production . |
| 15 | " This Meeting having considered an overture of the Kirk Session of Bowmore … respecting the procuring of Mortcloths for the better and ordinary Classes of people … do hereby agree to Guarrantee to the said Kirk Session , that whatever sum shall be laid out in the purchase of the said Mortcloths , the Princl. sum and interest shall be reapid to the Session , before they are rendered unfit for use … |
| 16 | But what is wrong with change for the better and doing what one is good at ? |
| 17 | IT is probably all for the good that Alain Prost left McLaren to join Ferrari at the end of the season because I doubt his autobiography , Life in the Fast Lane , will be nestling in the McLaren chief Ron Dennis 's Christmas stocking . |
| 18 | Dr Mann 's central theme was the ability of humanity to use scientific knowledge for the good or the bad of his fellow man . |
| 19 | for the good or not ? |
| 20 | A similar relative price term may affect the demand for the good as well : if demanders feel that the price of the good is high relative to its likely future value , they may well delay purchases until the price is lower . |
| 21 | Each voter pays a tax price for the good and this is implicit in the slope of the budget line 12 . |
| 22 | It involves the completion of all partiality , the overcoming of all senses of alienation and it brings a fulfilment of desire for the good and the beautiful beyond the capacity of human understanding . |
| 23 | Religion was the base for the principles of society and they are all for the good and well being of society . |
| 24 | Let us hope for the best but be prepared for the worst . |
| 25 | While in India Aung San gave a press conference where he snapped out that he was ‘ Hoping for the best but prepared for the worst ’ . |
| 26 | But was n't it for the best that his son be separated from Jennifer ? |
| 27 | Far more pupils are taken on than can hope to succeed in practice , and if you have not been able to impress any barrister sufficiently with your qualities to be taken on , it may perhaps be for the best that you are forced to look to a different career at this juncture . |
| 28 | ‘ But it was for the best that it did n't survive , ’ Cynthia said quickly . |
| 29 | Nonconformity 's dependence on laissez faire and , in the case of Methodism , on competition among five separate bodies , had not always worked for the best and there had been a lot of wasted effort . |
| 30 | Secondly , the Soviets ' penchant for canvassing exhaustively for the best and cheapest may succeed in these objectives , but at the cost of enormous delay between the time when applications are approved and machinery actually installed . |