Example sentences of "not [be] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that might not be such a bad thing . |
| 2 | Perhaps resting there would not be such a bad thing for a week or two longer ? |
| 3 | But that may not be such a bad thing , says Ian Marshall . |
| 4 | While programmers have not been able to do that the results they have achieved suggest that this may not be such a good idea . |
| 5 | Bukharin was warning that there should not be such a fundamental revision of policies as would mean a return to the arbitrary and commandist methods of ‘ war communism ’ , This meant that , for Bukharin , industrialisation should proceed within the established framework . |
| 6 | If you have to rely solely on public transport then the rural life may not be such a good idea , unless everything that you have to be near is within your area . |
| 7 | Returning now to the context of a church planting team , it will not be such national pronouncements that are being sought : rather it is the expression of words from God that build up the individuals listening . |
| 8 | If Jimmy Shine were so loveable and bright , he could not be such an ecumenical failure at everything from school to girls , from New York to San Francisco , from painting to living . |
| 9 | Looked at from this angle , the mystery may not be such a mystery after all . |
| 10 | A member of our research team will show a tape of one of the programmes and hopefully that will persuade whoever it may be that it might not be such a bad thing to appear on it . |
| 11 | If your partner is opposed to condoms , uncooperative or not interested , sexual intercourse may not be such a good idea . |
| 12 | This nature presumably explains the truth that if a is a causal circumstance or cause of b , then b can not be such of a . |
| 13 | But the imbalance grows on you , even if structurally it may not be such a good idea , since some very squat buttresses on the left-hand or north wall had to be built on during a partial restoration of the building in the last century . |
| 14 | And he did n't take much interest in my mother either and that put enough emotional pressure on her to maybe no , not be such a good mother as she might otherwise have been . |
| 15 | But I come from Tobermory , a Scottish island village where it would not be such a craven blunder . |
| 16 | You can not be such a pessimist . |
| 17 | If he said ‘ Good morning , men ! ’ as he passed by then it might not be such a bad day . |
| 18 | However , such a mental exercise may be found to be of more benefit to him than could any rules , and as such may not be such a bad thing . |
| 19 | I was up ‘ til midnight making the gekhakte chicken liver and roasting the turkey for the sandwiches and doing the potato salad , so you 'd better not give me any nonsense about your latest low-fat diet , Rebecca , or you either , Rainbow , though a little slimming routine might not be such a bad thing for you , except today 's a special occasion , so just tuck in . |
| 20 | Does the Minister agree that there should not be such a gallery and that our collections should be dispersed throughout the whole of Scotland ? |
| 21 | On second thoughts , it might not be such a bad idea , if only for a different reason . |
| 22 | Obviously the housing requirements should not be such as to generate harm to environmental interests . |
| 23 | It might not be such a bad thing — if we can get decent cover for Beeney at a cheap price , we should still be able to get a decent fee for Lukic . |
| 24 | Now only if I knew Jamie Forrester tickets may not be such a problem at times … |
| 25 | This man , with his town-bred ignorance , combined with his native shrewdness and suspicion , would not be such an easy person to work for . |
| 26 | As a matter of general law , apart from the statutory provisions and the Law Society 's regulations , the firm 's name must not be such as to deceive the general public into believing that it is dealing with some rival firm . |
| 27 | 10.4 Any design or instruction furnished or given by the Purchaser shall not be such as will cause the Seller to infringe any intellectual property rights . |
| 28 | The reaction from Ulster Unionists has been an almost automatic rejection , but Downing Street has been keen to point out that Foley has been vocal in his criticism of the IRA and his appointment might not be such a bad move . |
| 29 | There can not be many who would say the same of Tyson . |
| 30 | In the harsher 1990s there will not be many corks popping at companies that fail to : |