Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb pp] a good [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 On a seller and buyer summons the court declared that the seller had not made a good title , and ordered the return to the buyer of the buyer 's deposit on the equitable principle that it is a seller 's duty to disclose fully and frankly in the contract any title defect .
2 ‘ I have not had a good day ; in fact I have not had two good days .
3 ‘ Young people become homeless because they can not get a job and they can not get a job because they have not had a good education . ’
4 ‘ He has not had a good season with injury and must be a bit depressed — he wants to be playing .
5 The House has not had a good record in the past years .
6 We do n't bother any more if we 've not got a good chance of winning .
7 Despite my luck with the Harlequin ducks the Barrow 's goldeneyes declined to come close enough and I had still not got a good shot when , with reluctance , we left Mýatn .
8 Ireland lost all four Championship matches in ‘ 84 and it was generally felt that McBride had not achieved a good relationship with his players .
9 His talent for empathetic understanding reaches its peak with Sylvia , who has not read a good book in her entire life .
10 It 's not that OSF technology is n't good , they argue , its simply that OSF , and its members , have n't done a good marketing job .
11 If you ca n't , you ca n't so easily if you have n't got a better car .
12 So we have n't got a better mouse driver .
13 ‘ He has n't got a better nature , ’ I said despondently .
14 I ai n't had a good night 's sleep since God knows .
15 Not because I have n't had a good run , just that I 'd like the run to continue .
16 It suddenly struck Viola , in the midst of her rage , that she had n't had a good row for months .
17 If you have n't had a good laugh about work in the past two days , something 's wrong .
18 I had n't had a good War for months ; the last one had been the Ordinary Soldiers versus the Aerosols .
19 ‘ Southend have n't had a good start , but they came back from two down at Luton on Saturday which suggests there 's nothing wrong with their character . ’
20 You just have n't found a good use for it yet . ’
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