Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] be a bad [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some might think a little delayed public spending on roads would not have been a bad idea at that time . |
| 2 | I would n't say there was much between the two teams apart from the first half here this afternoon when United , I have n't seen United dominate a side so much for a very long time , and really , I mean you were here Peter , three or four nil at half time would not have been a bad reflection on United 's performance in any way at all . |
| 3 | On the other hand , if ATP wanted to demonstrate that they really are interested in the welfare of more than just the top 75 , as some of their lower-ranked members have recently suggested , then helping Birmingham through its current difficulties , which one hopes are only temporary , would not have been a bad thing . |
| 4 | Her assessment of me changed from one of total hostility to a slightly puzzled statement that my experience with these doctors , in her own words ‘ may prove , after all , not to have been a bad thing for this peculiar chap — half high principle and half unashamed pragmatism — to have been brought into personal dealings with this autocratic profession and to experience at first hand the kind of behaviour that has been driving Ministers of Health to despair for years ’ . |
| 5 | A merger often turns out to have been a bad move for one of the firms involved . |
| 6 | It could n't have been a worse morning for the Queen of England to visit us . |
| 7 | Which , to Charles ' mind , would n't have been a bad thing . |