Example sentences of "not [verb] good [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An excellent evening meal was had by all , dispelling the myth that you can not eat good food in the UK . |
| 2 | ‘ And did it not make good sense to tell Rober' what is going on ? ’ |
| 3 | But this principle does not constrain the courts to invent an ambiguity or to construe an ambiguity in a way which does not make good sense . |
| 4 | Just as the creoles did not want good government manned by the civil servants of an absolute monarch , so they would not accept rule by a metropolitan parliament , managed by Spanish liberals . |
| 5 | It follows that , because our young men can not earn good money , they can not afford to marry and take their wives out of the labour market . ’ |
| 6 | A strategy set out in this format does not guarantee good advertising : that depends on the ability of the creative team , helped by the rest of agency account group , to produce a good idea ; on the ability of agency and client to recognize it as such : and the team 's combined ability to turn it into a real , working campaign . |
| 7 | People are not wanting good furniture . |
| 8 | Do n't worry about some Strangelove of a character turning your innocent little toy into a satellite vaporiser , theory has it that military research is second rate because you can not do good research behind screens of secrecy and away from the cut and thrust of peer review . |
| 9 | Institutions can not provide good parenting , but may be a valuable bridge between the child 's own family and other permanent homes . |
| 10 | However small your event is , do n't hold it in a hotel or other venue that does not provide good crowd flow , catering service , easy-to-reach toilets and any other facilities you need . |
| 11 | Hundreds of landings on one particular airfield or gliding site do not provide good training for landing in fields . |
| 12 | It also reports that it is refusing to pay ICM for an exit poll that showed Labour ahead : ‘ We 're not paying good money for shoddy goods . ’ |
| 13 | He got a sheet of paper about that long to all concerned we have no salt , pepper , mustard , vinegar , our clock does not keep good time , er |
| 14 | Weekend press comment about the fragility of the recovery meant they were not expecting good news . |
| 15 | not getting good work out , people |
| 16 | Trouble is , Piper , some people do not appreciate good music , especially when they are dodging flying shrapnel . |
| 17 | We do not have good evidence to support the timing mechanism . |
| 18 | If you do not have good technique then you will have problems hitting good shots . |
| 19 | ‘ Access to information is a problem in developing countries which do not have good infrastructure , ’ he says . |
| 20 | Did I not have good reason to be angry with the man ? ’ |
| 21 | Some varieties do not produce good pollen , others are very good , but are poor receivers and not good seed-bearers . |
| 22 | Thus , a mercantile agent in possession of the registration book but not of the vehicle itself can not confer good title under section 2 of the Factors Act , Beverley Acceptances v. Oakely ( 1982 C.A. ) . |
| 23 | The mercantile agent then will not confer good title on X under section 2 of the Factors Act if he does not make the contract of sale with X until after he has returned the goods to their true owner , Beverley Acceptances v. Oakley . |
| 24 | Therefore the garage can not confer good title under section 2 of the Factors Act . |
| 25 | In this situation he can not confer good title on the sub-purchaser unless that sale falls under an exception to the nemo dat principle . |
| 26 | The company says farmers not achieving good control from their herbicide should not automatically blame resistance . |
| 27 | Someone hiring goods under a hire-purchase agreement is not a ‘ buyer ’ and therefore can not pass good title under either the Factors Act , section 9 or the Sale o Act , section 25 . |
| 28 | the language properly conceived , and perverse forms of speech and thought : among the vast mass of the Population , it is certain that if a child is not learning good English , he is learning bad English , and probably bad habits of thought ; and some of the mischief done may never afterwards be undone . |
| 29 | A bona fide purchaser of a stolen ‘ cultural object ’ does not acquire good title and is under an obligation to return it . |
| 30 | Thus someone taking only a pledge can not acquire good title by virtue of this provision . |