Example sentences of "'s not a good [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 She 's not a good patient .
2 ‘ I know it 's not a good way to go about things , ’ said Peter .
3 ‘ It 's not a good sign that the new government does n't have enough confidence to emerge from protective custody , ’ Mr Roberts said .
4 That 's not a good sign .
5 They 've got a supermarket , if that 's a hairdressers that has n't made it , it 's not a good sign .
6 But do n't add any fertiliser ; these plants will have to stand through the winter , so it 's not a good idea to encourage too much soft growth .
7 It 's not a good idea . ’
8 ‘ I 'm telling you ’ , he said , ‘ it 's not a good idea ’ .
9 However , Debbie thinks that it 's not a good idea to pressurise children into playing an instrument too early .
10 So it 's not a good idea to take anything for granted , especially your relationship . ’
11 ‘ That 's not a good idea , Evelyn .
12 She knows it 's not a good idea to surprise me .
13 It 's not a good idea .
14 It 's not a good idea to leave Miranda all on her own , so why do n't we keep her company ?
15 ‘ In my experience , it 's not a good idea to ask too many questions , in case the answers are ugly , violent ones .
16 It 's not a good idea to stand in plain sight . ’
17 It 's not a good idea to include the year as part of the file name as well , because you might accidentally copy some files into the wrong directory .
18 I know people who will say it 's not a good idea , and that 's the people in commercial television and commercial radio , who , if the B B C started to take advertising , would see their slice of the cake get just a touch less .
19 ‘ No , Kevin , it 's not a good idea .
20 No , it 's not a good idea at all , we should stick with what we have at the moment , the representation of people who opt to pay the political levy .
21 No I jest it 's not a good idea .
22 While it 's not a good idea to overload a drama with symbolism , it 's well worth keeping any eye open for possibilities , both in the planning stage and while the drama 's underway .
23 Now of course it would depend very much on and whether you were in a drought situation as we were until last year or whether it 's like we 've been over this last summer and early winter which is that virtually not a day has passed without we 've had some rain , in which case obviously the roof is going to get cleaned up very much quicker but I have to say that although I 've always been under the impression that it 's not a good idea to save water off a new felt roof er because of deposits that come off the mineral felt .
24 Perhaps I 'll remind you that it 's not a good idea to play games with me . ’
25 It 's not a good idea to pull him off .
26 It 's not a good idea because Richard 's got a streaming cold and James has n't .
27 incidently it 's not a good idea to leave the double glazing bit swinging , erm , or , or the other one .
28 It 's not a good idea .
29 Tt so erm we are thinking it will be , like everybody else , it 's not a good idea to put too much off too far into the future
30 it might be obvious but it 's not a good idea
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