Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [art] good [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see , although I love her so deeply , I know that Rosamund would not make a good wife for a missionary . ’ |
| 2 | Unless he had changed a lot he would not make a good impression . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 5 Take the photographer 's advice on what will and what will not make a good picture . |
| 7 | As the Archbishop of York observed : ‘ they have shown that it [ planning ] should embrace the whole country , and that without it we can not make the best use of the limited space in our small island ’ ( p. 160 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ farmers do not make the best Group Organisers : not because they are less effective but because they have insufficient time ’ ( this from seven respondents ) |
| 9 | Would she not tempt the best lord in the land to run away with her ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The madness of enjoying the fruits before they were grown ; the madness of believing the dream to be the fact ; the madness of not seizing the best chance he had ever had which would also be his last chance in England . |
| 12 | On a seller and buyer summons the court declared that the seller had not made a good title , and ordered the return to the buyer of the buyer 's deposit on the equitable principle that it is a seller 's duty to disclose fully and frankly in the contract any title defect . |
| 13 | We do not choose the best alternative but the one we can best do something about . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I can not do a good job from a chair on a table ! |
| 16 | Men such as Syd obviously took a great deal of pride in their work — woe betide a fireman or fitter who did not do a good job ! |
| 17 | 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 ) ) . |
| 18 | The palace has almost disappeared and the church has been poorly restored and does not give a good impression of the original . |
| 19 | The Secretary of State did not provide a good defence of the Government 's proposition . |
| 20 | However , they are limited in that they create artificial contexts which may not provide a good basis for predicting performance in other settings . |
| 21 | ‘ There is no doubt that climate affects landform development but it does not provide a good basis for a general theory of landscape evolution' |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | How risible it is that art can not provide a better imitation of life , when we know that life itself is so illusory . |
| 25 | ‘ I have not had a good day ; in fact I have not had two good days . |
| 26 | ‘ Young people become homeless because they can not get a job and they can not get a job because they have not had a good education . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ He has not had a good season with injury and must be a bit depressed — he wants to be playing . |
| 28 | The House has not had a good record in the past years . |
| 29 | The hostility to alleged traitors took extreme form in the murders of Sudbury , Hales and Cavendish , and equally strong was the dislike of the King 's uncle , John of Gaunt — his palace of the Savoy was burned down ( although it is uncertain whether the Kentishmen or the Londoners played the leading part in this ) and he would probably have shared the fate of Sudbury and the others if he had not had the good fortune to be in the North negotiating with the Scots . |
| 30 | She had her own ideas of social justice , and not paying a good employee like Lily because of a death in the family was not one of them . |