Example sentences of "it [be] [adv] not a good " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's probably not a good idea to lower the flaps but , in any case , make up stout control locks for all surfaces . |
| 2 | It 's probably not a good idea to try and call park things late at night , because the movements of people are rather different after 5 o'clock , their handsets usually are n't manned . |
| 3 | Once you begin your revision , it 's generally not a good idea to undertake new reading . |
| 4 | mind you it 's perhaps not a good idea to go and have a look not with this |
| 5 | I 've got a whole list of funny errors , some a bit too near the bone to repeat on the air , but they 're extremely funny , and it 's certainly not a good way of getting your application noticed by misspelling . |
| 6 | So it is probably not a good idea to give yourself a facial just before going out . |
| 7 | It is certainly not a good idea to arrive hoping to fill a basket , or even a hand ( unless you know an employee ) with greenhouse fruit . |
| 8 | In particular , it is usually not a good idea to expand the length of a sentence by inserting — as in the passage above — a long PARENTHETICAL ( i.e. a sentence in brackets or between dashes ) . |