Example sentences of "[not/n't] a [adv] good " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything 's owned by the by the government and er , I know it 's not a right good thing , like , but if it could work properly , it would be a damn good thing . |
| 2 | ‘ We are concerned and the scenario for us is not a particularly good one . |
| 3 | This is not a particularly good joke , but it was delivered neatly . |
| 4 | Chelsea are not a particularly good team and they did not have to play well to win this often tedious match . |
| 5 | Jogging is not a particularly good form of exercise ( especially on city pavements ) ; all that pounding can put a great deal of strain on the lower back and can damage the knees . |
| 6 | It is not a particularly good book and Niki despises it , but it does have some home truths in it . |
| 7 | Though it was not a particularly good painting , as it happens , Ian had tried especially hard at it ; very hard in fact . |
| 8 | These figures suggest that interviewing by telephone is not a particularly good way of cutting down the high refusal rate customary in sociolinguistic surveys ; but interestingly , Nordberg ( 1980 ) reports a very much lower refusal rate in Sweden . |
| 9 | Here , he was not a particularly good teacher , but he was by no means a disaster . |
| 10 | The Eighties were not a particularly good time for the young . |
| 11 | On the other hand , it 's not a particularly good idea to read too many obstetric textbooks about unlikely complications . |
| 12 | Should n't we have the courage to say ‘ This is not a terribly good idea ? ’ |
| 13 | So er I thought well he , he was not a too good a rep because he , he could n't answer this question . |
| 14 | They have a piano — not a very good one ! — which is connected to a computer . |
| 15 | Now I might have extra players so that there can be some moments of rest for the players in one of the very long symphonies ; but in Bruckner 's day it was often a matter of re-scoring a passage because you knew that the third horn was not a very good player and that is all you had . |
| 16 | If you are recovering from an over-use injury , an immediate return to tarmac-pounding is not a very good idea . |
| 17 | Gedge agrees it is a great statement , but not a very good song . |
| 18 | Unfortunately he was not a very good business man . |
| 19 | But it is not a very good one , since it is available only until the moment that Titius brings suit . |
| 20 | Or they are but I 'm not a very good person to bring out these effects , I do n't know which is true . ’ |
| 21 | Unfortunately it was not a very good lute , as the assistant in the music shop to which he tried to sell it pointed out at — unnecessarily — great length . |
| 22 | Admittedly , I suppose , it is not a very good idea for Foreign Office ministers to use pejorative nicknames in public , but no one could really complain that it was a filthy racist slur . |
| 23 | It was not a very good French side , but they showed many of the basic national virtues and that was what gave them their narrow victory . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , you 're not a very good judge of character , though , are you , Lauren ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ There are the possible makings of not a very good night for the Republicans , ’ said CBS television newsreader Dan Rather . |
| 26 | Annus Horribilis ? 1992 was certainly not a very good year |
| 27 | It was not a very good day today , and he had a terrible feeling that it was going to get worse . |
| 28 | Working through a lunch-break is usually not a very good idea . |
| 29 | It 's not a very good story , is it ? |
| 30 | Surely , implanting the word ‘ lemon ’ in a potential critic 's mind is not a very good idea ? |