Example sentences of "[adv] not a good " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ On the other hand , perhaps not a good idea , ’ said Sacco . |
| 2 | mind you it 's perhaps not a good idea to go and have a look not with this |
| 3 | So not a good day for City , but they should n't lose heart , as the score line the home side , and on another day might well be reversed as they were not that much difference in the goals . |
| 4 | She told TODAY : ‘ I am just not a good traveller . ’ |
| 5 | So does that mean that he is a good teacher of music , he 's just not a good disciplinarian ? |
| 6 | Once you begin your revision , it 's generally not a good idea to undertake new reading . |
| 7 | However , this is still not a good result . |
| 8 | I feel this is possibly not a good thing at this present time , when every spectrum of Rottweiler size , shape and type can still be found in the show ring : further expansions of the gene pool can only have a destructive effect . |
| 9 | Similarly , the Christmas period is usually not a good time to start with a puppy because your home is likely to be in turmoil , and you may have visitors . |
| 10 | In particular , it is usually not a good idea to expand the length of a sentence by inserting — as in the passage above — a long PARENTHETICAL ( i.e. a sentence in brackets or between dashes ) . |
| 11 | So it is probably not a good idea to give yourself a facial just before going out . |
| 12 | It 's probably not a good idea to lower the flaps but , in any case , make up stout control locks for all surfaces . |
| 13 | It 's probably not a good idea to try and call park things late at night , because the movements of people are rather different after 5 o'clock , their handsets usually are n't manned . |
| 14 | A near tragedy was clearly not a good start but this was not your run-of-the-mill trip . |
| 15 | It is easy to argue , invoking self-righteous precedents , that the lady who hurries to assist the injured animal or pedestrian in the street or who feeds the beggar on her doorstep , but who fails to get excited about suffering in general and shows a disinclination to contribute to Oxfam , is really not a good Samaritan ; that she is morally short-sighted in letting ‘ distance ’ be a factor , and that she should be equally concerned for suffering whenever and wherever . |
| 16 | He did play really well in the Championship year but any time I saw him last year he seemed to be nervous on the ball , surely not a good thing for a Centre Half . |
| 17 | Maybe not a good one , but it was |
| 18 | So over all a deserved win — i just hope Speedy is back soon as Hodge is definitely not a good enough player . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I 've got a whole list of funny errors , some a bit too near the bone to repeat on the air , but they 're extremely funny , and it 's certainly not a good way of getting your application noticed by misspelling . |