Example sentences of "good [noun sg] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neutral tint is a good base for the colour of cloud shadows . |
| 2 | Busy carers may make good provision for the physical needs of the parent without considering how they must be feeling . |
| 3 | But although Harold Wilson was in artistic matters a Philistine , he was better than the later Philistines , since he recognised that the ambit of British culture should not be controlled by his own personal predilections , and he responded with speed and generosity to applications from Jennie Lee for better support for the arts . |
| 4 | They were desert-dwellers , so Moses could scarcely have had better preparation for the wilderness journeys with Israel than these years of nomadic life . |
| 5 | For the areas of work traditionally offered by lawyers , the legal aid scheme provides very good coverage for the poor . |
| 6 | Arthur Sidney Herbert , who died suddenly in hospital in April 1991 at the age of 78 , was a member of Ealing for over 40 years and in his younger days was a good all-rounder for the first XI . |
| 7 | He talks about seeing his publisher , and getting a better contract for the next book . |
| 8 | Indeed , such an academic structure might provide a good opportunity for the exercise suggested by Graff , in which students ( many of whom would probably be women ) would consider a feminist anthology of women poets of the past , and discuss how far they are admissible into the existing poetic canon , and what theoretical criteria might govern such admission . |
| 9 | Clearly , however , the disputed collectorship was creating an unusually good opportunity for the enemies of the Montrose interest to split that interest and thus prepare the way for an attack upon it on a future occasion . |
| 10 | As they were both due in London in connection with the case , and as Coleman was also there seeing Salinger , Buhler suggested that it might be a good opportunity for the three of them to get together . |
| 11 | AFTER five minutes Loughlins missed a good opportunity for the Swifts . |
| 12 | It is a good opportunity for the couple to combine their tastes and talents . |
| 13 | Dave Thomas , spokesman for the band , said it was a good opportunity for the band to reach a wider audience . |
| 14 | A further ‘ flaw ’ in the Bond conditions , but written in in good faith for the security of the Club in its early days , was the option of the Bondholders to receive either 3% interest , or free playing membership if holding a block of 4 x £25 bonds . |
| 15 | A director owes a fiduciary duty to the company ; there is nothing which a director can do in his or her capacity as a director which is not required to be done in good faith for the benefit of the company . |
| 16 | On the facts of most of them breach of duty could have been established on the conventional ground that the directors had failed to act in good faith for the benefit of the company . |
| 17 | The director of a company has a duty to carry on the business of that company in all respects in good faith for the benefit of that company and not for the benefit of other group companies . |
| 18 | The City keeper denied Millwall 's new signing John Byrne just before the end , but it was a good debut for the £250,000 signing from Sunderland . |
| 19 | What better protection for the rich world 's vanishing wildlife than a tract of land that stays untouched because people are frightened to visit ? |
| 20 | Compared to open-reel tape machines they are also easier to load and store and provide better protection for the tape . |
| 21 | Jigsaws are a good purchase for the d-i-yer trying to build up a reasonably comprehensive tool kit . |
| 22 | Tiredness was frequently a good excuse for the moods in which he would be less than charming. , |
| 23 | The need for sound social democratic education was never greater than it was today and there was never a better opportunity for the building up of a strong National Socialist Party . |
| 24 | Bowles and Gintis criticise the human capital theory as providing ‘ a good ideology for the status quo ’ and for the fact that ‘ the contribution of schooling to growth over the last half century may on balance have been negative . ’ |
| 25 | And yet Penzias makes a good case for the new golden age , and his urbane discourse is both enlivening and instructive . |
| 26 | Commissions and Collaborations makes a good case for the BBC 's role as a patron of the arts — not only for respectable institutions like the Proms , but works that may be difficult , controversial , fey , or just not very successful . |
| 27 | Certainly Frager makes a very good case for the use of the early instrument . |
| 28 | On the other hand , there is also clearly a good case for the type of external validation operated by the CNAA , whereby course proposals are essentially considered by ‘ peer groups ’ made up largely of staff from institutions within public sector higher education , together with some members of the universities . |
| 29 | There appears to be prima facie a good case for the existence of a dialect continuum in the Caribbean , given the social forces and conditions that have shaped life and language there in the last three centuries . |
| 30 | Johnson ( loc. cit. ) indeed , makes a good case for the mosaic as a product of a group of mosaicists based at Ilchester — an argument which , even if not accepted in detail ( section 4.8 ) , reminds us of the important affinities between this mosaic and others to the south . |