Example sentences of "not [verb] a good [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I can not do a good job from a chair on a table ! |
| 10 | 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 ! |
| 11 | 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 ) ) . |
| 12 | The palace has almost disappeared and the church has been poorly restored and does not give a good impression of the original . |
| 13 | The Secretary of State did not provide a good defence of the Government 's proposition . |
| 14 | However , they are limited in that they create artificial contexts which may not provide a good basis for predicting performance in other settings . |
| 15 | ‘ There is no doubt that climate affects landform development but it does not provide a good basis for a general theory of landscape evolution' |
| 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 | ‘ I have not had a good day ; in fact I have not had two good days . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ He has not had a good season with injury and must be a bit depressed — he wants to be playing . |
| 20 | The House has not had a good record in the past years . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Never let it be said that the Inspiral Carpets do not like a good breakfast . |
| 23 | Therefore he could not claim a good title by raising an estoppel against the true owner . |
| 24 | We do n't bother any more if we 've not got a good chance of winning . |
| 25 | Despite my luck with the Harlequin ducks the Barrow 's goldeneyes declined to come close enough and I had still not got a good shot when , with reluctance , we left Mýatn . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | This could be for many reasons : for example the database does not contain a good example of that particular form of letter , or the character may have been badly written . |
| 28 | Transworld 's international sales director John Blake said the heat of Olympia 2 did not create a good atmosphere in which to do business . |
| 29 | A single stem planted on its own does not create a good effect . |
| 30 | Whether they value their police service enough or not and whether it needs more money or not to do a good job or whether the authorities should take a look at how it is being run . |