Example sentences of "not a good " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Not a good audience , ’ she declared from behind the screen as Jessie helped her out of her dress , ‘ Typical matinee . |
| 2 | But do n't add any fertiliser ; these plants will have to stand through the winter , so it 's not a good idea to encourage too much soft growth . |
| 3 | Messy cow , bloody garlic all over clothes , not a good idea . |
| 4 | It 's not a good idea . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ What he actually says is a very proper reminder that you can do more good with wealth in the nation , in the community and in the family , but wealth for its own sake is not a good thing . ’ |
| 6 | Their condemnation of the award is not a good omen . |
| 7 | By and large , he was saying what most ordinary people think : that it is not a good idea for very young girls to embark on motherhood , especially if they are poor or a bit dim . |
| 8 | He was not a good fielder at cricket . |
| 9 | Hoskyns was not a good lecturer . |
| 10 | If the students of Lincoln were right in thinking that he was not a good administrator , this church had less administration than any church in the land . |
| 11 | It is certainly not a good idea to arrive hoping to fill a basket , or even a hand ( unless you know an employee ) with greenhouse fruit . |
| 12 | When your dogs are eating it is not a good idea to pat them ; if they think you are trying to take their food they will defend it with your life . |
| 13 | When I came home late after working overtime they 'd say , ‘ she is not a good woman we must not keep her in our house . ’ |
| 14 | It is not a good age to assess people or things . |
| 15 | It is not a good idea to sit in front of a warm fire and relax while having a quiet read as this may cause drowsiness . |
| 16 | ‘ You 're not a good liar , Hans . |
| 17 | It was not a good day for the more established pairings . |
| 18 | It was not a good day for the more established pairings . |
| 19 | He got big , so the legend goes , while good King Richard I was off crusading , leaving King John ( not a good man ) and the villainous Sheriff to take care of business . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's not a good sign that the new government does n't have enough confidence to emerge from protective custody , ’ Mr Roberts said . |
| 21 | He did n't want to exacerbate what he saw as an existing weakness of his own in that respect , and although he was not censorious of other people , I think he was genuinely quite frightened of it , and at one point in the Arts Lab , when there was quite a lot of speed pills , amphetamines , going around amongst the young people there , he did speak out very strongly one evening against it , saying that he personally did not want anything like that around anything he was closely involved with because he felt that it was not a good thing for people to be speeding and it created the sort of vibes that might end up causing problems . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm telling you ’ , he said , ‘ it 's not a good idea ’ . |
| 23 | The most perplexing thing is that the evidence shows that many bids are not a good idea . |
| 24 | He was altogether too dignified and courteous for the rough and tumble of politics , was not a good debater , and left after less than eighteen months . |
| 25 | Michael Foot was not a good Leader of the Opposition . |
| 26 | It is not a good model for human relations , and some of the people who are aflame with political zeal and want to put the entire world to rights are in fact hell to live with . |
| 27 | A Guardian article noted : ‘ A group of Girton , Cambridge , undergraduates in 1959 agreed on television that politics was not a good career for women . |
| 28 | There is not a good cause in the land which does not seek the imprimatur of royal patronage , and the number of official engagements carried out by members of the family doubled during the eighties . |
| 29 | ‘ It is not a good way of dealing with the battle against doping , ’ he added . |
| 30 | This was not a good idea . |