Example sentences of "have [be] a good idea " in BNC.

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1 Publishing the old figures compiled from Job Centres , said Mr Hibbert , alongside the new ones might have been a good idea just to show how misleading the old ones had been .
2 ON THE eve of polling day the Prime Minister was asked whether , on reflection , it would not have been a good idea for him to have debated with Mr Kinnock on television .
3 By what route this strategy will proceed is unclear — technology swapping , OEM or other — however , the company admits that it probably would have been a good idea had Tandem Computers Inc and Pyramid had meshed their respective hardware and Unix software experience in that area two years ago .
4 He had n't shaved recently , and a little soap might have been a good idea .
5 I 'd already decided I wanted to go into the Army and it would n't have been a good idea to have anything on my record about supporting some left-wing group .
6 For some time now , the SARA Executive has been seeking input more generally from the rowing population for the updating of its Development Plan , but what might have been a good idea to achieve this seems set for a less than successful conclusion .
7 But would n't it have been a good idea to ask a relative or neighbour to go with her or to look after the children who were not going to receive attention ?
8 I was forced to concede B&B had been a good idea !
9 Lugh was not sure , now , if it had been a good idea to bring Dorrainge .
10 Bringing the Bob Marley had been a good idea , there was n't a cheaper car in the yard , it seemed , except maybe the white Vauxhall Astra with the shirt-button wheels , a car Duncan the Drunken , in a rare lucid moment , had described as a jet-propelled tennis shoe .
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