Example sentences of "not such a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will probably not be necessary to form an objective statement on all expectations , eg ‘ Opening presents on Christmas morning rather than Christmas eve ’ is not such a critical issue as decision-making or finances . |
| 2 | If this telegraphic style goes beyond our standard expectations , it is certainly not such a radical deviation as the opening " sentence " of Joyce 's Finnegans Wake , which is the completion of its last : riverrun , past Eve and Adam 's , from swerve of shore to bend of bay , brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs . |
| 3 | Confidentiality is therefore not such a strong theme and the results of nursing audit have always been available to managers . |
| 4 | Being without these tensions , pentatonic tones are therefore more bland , movement between them is free , and there is not such a strong feeling of the need for resolution as in the diatonic system . |
| 5 | We 've gone back and forth a couple of times on pickups and pickup placement — one of the problems with having 24 frets is that the pickup has to be slightly further towards the bridge and it 's not such a warm sound , so there might have to be some compromise there . |
| 6 | It is interesting to note that their evolution was a long and gradual one and not such a revolutionary concept but simply an extension of where we are now i.e. in centesimal potency ( 5th edition ) philosophy . |
| 7 | Although introduced during the World Cup , it was not such a revolutionary advance as had been claimed . |
| 8 | Not such a nice teddy though is it ? |
| 9 | but it 's not such a nice stool as this , it has n't got the knobs on like that . |
| 10 | ‘ Mr Shah , ’ said the engineering master , ‘ is not such a nice man as you think ! ’ |
| 11 | The 1895 workshop of Alfred Morgan , undertaker and funeral furnisher of 2 Craven Buildings , Wych Street , Strand was not such a far cry from the confusion witnessed fifty years earlier by Oliver Twist in Mr Sowerberry 's establishment . |
| 12 | It was not such a good day for Waverley , Edinburgh 's third side in the last eight . |
| 13 | Other of his remarks prove how influential Minton was at this date , for beside Bryan Winter 's Blue Landscape he noted : ‘ Not such a good Minton as No 10 ( Prunella Clough 's Lowestoft Harbour ] — but better than No 37 [ Minton 's Jamaican Landscape ] . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I had done Moliere 's The Misanthrope with him and The Hypochondriac , which is much more difficult and not such a good play . |
| 15 | ‘ Not such a good customer recently , ’ retorted Nubenehem , letting herself flop back down on her couch . |
| 16 | Choosing a field some distance upwind on the other hand , is not such a good idea . |
| 17 | Ideal in good weather ; not such a good idea when rough . |
| 18 | ‘ Often clients think it 's a good idea to come here but after a few weeks they think it 's not such a good idea . |
| 19 | According to Cary Cooper , professor of organisational psychology at UMIST , this is not such a good idea . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm sure I would if he 's a friend of yours , Harry , but I think it 's not such a good idea for you to include me with Aubrey and Madeleine . |
| 21 | Dear me , that 's not such a good idea . |
| 22 | In sparring , this is not such a good idea , since the techniques do not lend themselves to repetitive actions . |
| 23 | Not such a good idea ! |
| 24 | I , no I , I get the impression that , you know , everyone just everyone just kind of freaked out end of nineteen forty six forty seven and they were just , oh God what are we gon na do now , wh what can we do to get some more support , oh excellent , yeah , let's go for equal distribution , what a great idea and then all of a sudden they think oh no , it 's not , you know , perhaps it 's not such a good idea after all . |
| 25 | Not such a good idea ! |
| 26 | But when you start to think about it in terms of erm sort of psychological explanation as you 're becoming used to , then it becomes perhaps not such a good way of thinking about perception Matlin 's got some very examples in it of this of those sorts of things By and large were concerned with people 's experience , self-reported experience quite often , of the phenomena saying well tell me what you see when you look at it rather than being based on the sort of lovely stuff that we love , good solid empirical data , yeah ? |
| 27 | Provided you did n't get away with , you , you know your first example 's okay , but your second example where you said , ‘ Well , I hope the Council some good , I have n't the authority , ’ that 's not such a good example , because , to the listener |
| 28 | and maybe , you know , that 's not such a good thing , but we were looking at the Phillips , erm |
| 29 | The correct character may often have a lower confidence because it was not such a good match with the Freeman database . |
| 30 | Not such a great idea on long flights as it tends to cut off circulation in several different places . |