Example sentences of "not [det] a good [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not such a good day for Waverley , Edinburgh 's third side in the last eight . |
| 2 | ‘ I had done Moliere 's The Misanthrope with him and The Hypochondriac , which is much more difficult and not such a good play . |
| 3 | ‘ Not such a good customer recently , ’ retorted Nubenehem , letting herself flop back down on her couch . |
| 4 | Choosing a field some distance upwind on the other hand , is not such a good idea . |
| 5 | Ideal in good weather ; not such a good idea when rough . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | According to Cary Cooper , professor of organisational psychology at UMIST , this is not such a good idea . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | Dear me , that 's not such a good idea . |
| 10 | In sparring , this is not such a good idea , since the techniques do not lend themselves to repetitive actions . |
| 11 | Not such a good idea ! |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Not such a good idea ! |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | and maybe , you know , that 's not such a good thing , but we were looking at the Phillips , erm |
| 17 | The correct character may often have a lower confidence because it was not such a good match with the Freeman database . |