Example sentences of "[not/n't] a bad [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not a bad couple of hours ' detecting by any means , but I was disappointed with the lack of jewellery finds . |
| 2 | When it first opened , it sold Molson Ale on draught , which is not a bad drink at all . |
| 3 | An old adage , possibly even a cliché , but not a bad philosophy if you want the sort of holiday where you can get involved , meet local people , be an individual rather than part of a package . |
| 4 | Not a bad turn round . |
| 5 | Anyway , it 's not a bad amp , but the one I 've got at home is much better . |
| 6 | You know I 'm not a bad loser ! |
| 7 | You know I 'm not a bad loser ! |
| 8 | I 'm not a bad loser Phil |
| 9 | They were seated now , on Rab 's ruined chairs ; and Rab noticed that Doctor — some surprise — had not a bad leg . |
| 10 | Not a bad experience , because there was an Englishman with Erlich 's name on a sheet of cardboard waiting at the entrance to Immigration . |
| 11 | Wallace not a bad buy . |
| 12 | Not a bad shopping list . |
| 13 | Well it 's not , it 's not a bad hedge and it 's now starting to get you know |
| 14 | ‘ How would I feel in these circumstances ? ’ is not a bad beginning , although it can not be an ending . |
| 15 | Although less ‘ angry ’ than in its earlier incarnation , this time it was a Sounds ' single Of The Week — not a bad achievement for a band whose rise had only begun in earnest a little under a year ago . |
| 16 | Although less ‘ angry ’ than in its earlier incarnation , this time it was a Sounds ' single Of The Week — not a bad achievement for a band whose rise had only begun in earnest a little under a year ago . |
| 17 | If this year we have to stabilize in this way , do these things , then that 's not a bad achievement compared with what we set out with three months ago . |
| 18 | ‘ Not a bad pub , ’ Dixie says . |
| 19 | You had not a bad skinful yourself last night ! ’ |
| 20 | Pamela washed them once and will not bother to wash them again until they are saturated with her own smell , not a bad smell , made up as it is of tea , musk oil , turpentine and taramasalata . |
| 21 | What 's more it 's all included for around £15 per trip — pretty good value you 'll agree , and not a bad way to budget for a terrific night out . |
| 22 | It is easy enough to put another interpretation on the behaviour of the Robinses , to argue that they were doing their best in trying circumstances ( to forbid German was not a bad way of teaching English ) , and that they had their work cut out dealing with precocious children . |
| 23 | Not a bad way to go , in a blaze of your own gunpowder . |
| 24 | So I mean if I , if I produced for instance si five or six masters and then people can go and do copies here and there that 's actually not a bad way of doing it . |
| 25 | Yeah , it 's not a bad way to start . |
| 26 | That , I would say , is not a bad price to pay for a machine that is probably as fast as any I have played with . |
| 27 | Yeah , it 's not a bad price |
| 28 | and they 're not a bad price for all that , you see and I 'd get rid of her wardrobes that she 's got |
| 29 | that 's not a bad price |
| 30 | Not a bad price either . |