Example sentences of "[modal v] not [verb] a good " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , they are limited in that they create artificial contexts which may not provide a good basis for predicting performance in other settings . |
| 2 | I was told the service was really only for pilots flying unaccompanied , who could not maintain a good lookout whilst otherwise engaged , and that the service applied essentially to commercial operations . |
| 3 | While Adorno confines this category to ‘ serious ’ music , Paddison points out that there seems no reason why it could not include a good deal of avant-garde jazz and such rock groups as Frank Zappa 's Mothers of Invention the Velvet Underground , and — he might have added — some post-punk bands . |
| 4 | He was wearing a grubby trench coat with the collar turned up so I still could not get a good look at him , but there was no mistaking his dimensions . |
| 5 | Therefore he could not claim a good title by raising an estoppel against the true owner . |
| 6 | The SDP did not and could not have a good war . |
| 7 | Built in 1540 , these lovely red-brick stables have been loaned to the Horse Rangers by grace and favour since 1964 , and could not have a better tenant than this exclusive voluntary organisation — exclusive that is to children who do not have their own horses and ponies . |
| 8 | If there is danger , you could not have a better man by your side . ’ |
| 9 | Unless he had changed a lot he would not make a good impression . |
| 10 | You see , although I love her so deeply , I know that Rosamund would not make a good wife for a missionary . ’ |
| 11 | The reason Jake had had a change of heart was because he had finally realised for himself that Janice would not make a good mother for Kirsty , and that Shiona , on the other hand , would . |
| 12 | They were also the most likely to say Dad would not make a good job of being a housewife and should be out at work ( 57pc pc compared to 38pc ) . |
| 13 | One ca n't believe that players such as Colin Stephens , Aled Williams or Adrian Davies would not do a better job in the No10 jersey and it seems a far cry from the days when the Welsh stand off factory was in full production . |
| 14 | Once briefed , the photographer should be left to compose the pictures himself and if he says something will not make a good picture his judgement should be accepted . |
| 15 | 5 Take the photographer 's advice on what will and what will not make a good picture . |
| 16 | Consequently a simple histogram constructed from the mass and molar mass of each fraction will not provide a good representation of the distribution and a method must be used to compensate for the overlapping . |
| 17 | ‘ And you will not get a better service for some long time to come , ’ he said on BBC radio . |
| 18 | Delay caused by a failure of the legal aid authorities to act , or act reasonably may constitute good reason , but delay caused by the failure of the plaintiff or his solicitors to act promptly in applying for legal aid , or for the removal of a legal aid restriction , will not constitute a good reason ( Waddon v Whitecroft-Scovill Ltd [ 1988 ] 1 WLR 309 ) . |
| 19 | It promises to be a very close encounter , but North will not have a better chance to redress the balance against the runaway Ulster League winners . |
| 20 | You will not see a better performance than this all year . |
| 21 | Manager Lennie Lawrence saluted Stuart Ripley 's ‘ wonder ’ goal : ‘ If you watch Sky Television , and watch Italian football , you will not see a better goal than that . |
| 22 | I can not do a good job from a chair on a table ! |
| 23 | Unless the registrar is instructed to the contrary , a transfer to the wife and new husband will result in the registration of a restriction to the effect that no disposition by a sole proprietor of the land ( not being a trust corporation ) under which capital money arises is to be registered except under an order of the Registrar or of the Court ( ie the survivor of the wife and new husband can not give a good receipt for capital monies ) ( Land Registration Act 1925 , s58(3) and Land Registration Rules 1925 ( SR & O 1925 No 1093 , r213 as amended by Land Registration Rules 1989 , SI No 801 ) ) . |
| 24 | If you can not find a good substitute , try using prepared ‘ sepia ’ watercolour , diluted with water , or use Mars brown dark pigment , which is easy to prepare with gum water for brush wash drawing . |
| 25 | Even in the first century A.D. the author of the Periplus maris Erythraei can not find a better accomplishment for a king of Ethiopia — to counterbalance his notorious greed for money — than his knowledge of Greek . |
| 26 | Well it certainly is but er I 've grown potatoes myself for years and never had any trouble with them boiling into the water but this year I can not get a good potato , all of my usual favourites like Estima which I 've found is a usually good all round potato , it it 's a monkey for boiling into the water and one thing I can only assume is that the weather 's had a lot to do with it , my ground 's been waterlogged most of the season . |
| 27 | We rested quietly and most comfortably in Sligachan Inn , than which I can not imagine a better retreat in the early summer of late autumn , either before or after the great throng , who , coming from north and south to it in the height of the tourist season , make it a place of stir . |
| 28 | How risible it is that art can not provide a better imitation of life , when we know that life itself is so illusory . |
| 29 | Because here you have an opportunity to go launch yourself onto a self employed erm platform and can not provide a better platform for that and I would say that would n't I he 's thinking . |