salutary

Preposition: in

• respect: The example of the West Coast Main Line upgrade is salutary in this respect, both in terms of cost and coordination.
• condition: The skin of birch, worn inside the shoes, promotes a perspiration that can prove salutary in various chronic conditions.

Infinitive complement

• remember: It's salutary to remember that the vast majority of stolen antiques the police recover are never claimed.
• think: It is salutary to think what £ 1 million would buy 100 years ago.
• see: It is very salutary always to see the other side of the question!
• reflect: It is salutary to reflect that a multinational company would have ' sweated ' ( realized ) this hidden leverage capital years ago.
• remind: It would be salutary to remind ourselves of the story so far.
• compare: It is salutary to compare the attention paid to teaching BSL to deaf pupils with that paid to teaching English to hearing pupils.

Modifies a noun

• reminder: The whole episode was a salutary reminder of the dangers of the ' incident pit ' .
• lesson: For each of us, the dive was a salutary lesson.
• tale: Sunday 21st April Go Back to top 1. A salutary tale!
• shock: It was argued that printing the words might give a salutary shock to skeptical readers.
• effect: The salutary effects of reciting this teaching are also described ( paras.

Modifying Another Word

• very: Very salutary is an occasional hour of serene sadness, indeed a good agony will sometimes yield a grand harvest.
• also: Furthermore, the survival of cheese from the same deposit was also salutary.
• so: The effect of all this was so salutary that even now the faith is persisting intact in those parts.
• however: It is however salutary to remember the genuine need for originality in the creation of a copyright protectable database within the Directive.

Used with adjective complement

prove: The skin of birch, worn inside the shoes, promotes a perspiration that can prove salutary in various chronic conditions.