Example sentences of "was not a good idea " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was not a good idea . |
| 2 | Obviously it was not a good idea to keep Nigel at home for what was little short of a week . |
| 3 | As Jenna waited to be collected in Paris she began to think that this was not a good idea after all . |
| 4 | Gurder was right , universal education was not a good idea . |
| 5 | It was not a good idea . |
| 6 | The other two ate it only because not eating it would be impolite , and it probably was n't a good idea to be impolite to people who had spears when you did n't . |
| 7 | Matt was peeing in the river when one of the sparks came up and told him it was n't a good idea . |
| 8 | Of course , Tom has a short temper , so it was n't a good idea . |
| 9 | Until I had myself out of the frame , it was n't a good idea to drag anyone into the case who was n't there already . |
| 10 | A little too late , she remembered that it was n't a good idea to goad Julius 's temper into life . |
| 11 | Now that she was actually out here in the dark , on her own , it occurred to her that this really was n't a good idea at all . |
| 12 | Perhaps it was n't a good idea to launch into open warfare against someone like Eleanor . |
| 13 | I reckoned it would take her three or four minutes to get back to her flat , but maybe it was n't a good idea to hang around the neighbourhood . |
| 14 | I already knew it was n't a good idea ; I could hear the tone of my voice rising higher and higher as I spoke the sentence , and that was always a sign I was getting into some sort of verbal mess . |
| 15 | And started off by the sea but that was n't a good idea really was it ? |