How To Use Not bad In A Sentence
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It's not bad but neither is it brilliant - which won't bother 99 per cent of buyers one jot as they are in it for the image.
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Not bad for someone who failed to shine at school and feared he would end up in a coalyard.
The Sun
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I found the final rather involving, which given that rugby is in essence a game of catch taken extremely seriously is not bad going at all.
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A few appeared at the same time on both legs and were slightly raised but not 'knobbly', and not bad enough for her to want to stop wearing skirts.
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It's not bad to be reminded that there's a whole horde of men of his generation out there in the sticks for whom the old shibboleths are pretty important.
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If the word tendonitis is included, it's not bad," starter Mike Mussina said.
Bats
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Wade was smart and not bad-looking, and he could be funny when he wanted to.
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Not bad for a man who has had two hip operations.
Times, Sunday Times
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So far this year, I have imbibed on raicilla (not bad - made in the nearby jungle) on the beach at Yelapa, mescal from a community shot glass at a fiesta in Teotitlan del Valle outside of Oaxaca City and some mighty fine double martinis on the River Walk in San Antonio.
The Subject of Mescal
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Not bad for a cathedral city.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not bad for a five-door family car with up to 1,100 litres of boot space.
The Sun
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This factory of a bierkeller is beautifully decorated both inside and out and beer, by British standards at least, is not bad value at just over £2 a half litre.
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But I will not badmouth the detachable magazine option.
Why I Hate Detachable Magazines
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I was all right, not bad.
Times, Sunday Times
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As if it's not bad enough that I have eyesight that requires varifocal lenses, now even those need replacing.
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It's not bad exposition, and it's enthralling in a ‘listening to the stories of an old school friend you've met at the pub’ kind of way.
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I was all right, not bad.
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It's not bad exposition, and it's enthralling in a ‘listening to the stories of an old school friend you've met at the pub’ kind of way.
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Not bad for selling a company whose share price has limped along for years.
Times, Sunday Times
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And if that's not bad enough, now I've got telephone solicitors calling me for charity donations.
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But as cheery, tune-filled postmodern parodies of cheesy slasher movies go, it's not bad.
Times, Sunday Times
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We are the only ones whom Cleon, the great bawler, does not badger.
The Wasps
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Not bad for a man whose position on the political spectrum is roughly a million miles left to that of the average Irish voter.
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As a friend he is not bad, but as an employer, he is a pain in the neck.
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It's not bad, plus it adds some humor be interspersing clips from the film in between levels.
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Tell him you're not bad-mouthing him and would appreciate the same respect.
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Not bad for an incidental photographer who took up photography mostly as a necessity rather than an avocation!
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Not bad for a group valued at 1.49 billion, on shares down a smidgeon at 543½p.
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Not bad double-headers for Perfumed Princes who can barely tell a foxhole from a bidet.
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It'seems not bad. The scabbard was installed afterward. It's rare if it's old and intact Longquan fittings.
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With an adjustable cord at the top and elasticated features to tightly secure the gaiter around the ankle and foot these are not bad at all.
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February 11, 2009 at 2:46 pm not bad, not bad…not digging the green face, but its only concept art…give me the fuckin dinobts bay…all these other robots are ok, but all i want is grimlock eating at least one robot on the big screen….u say everything u do is awesome, but whats more awesome than a robot t-rex….a robot t-rex that can transform into a sword wielding manbot thats what
Devastator Concept Art Hits the Net! | The Movie Blog
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Not bad science knowledge, but not knowledge; does not do bad things, and only do good things. No change of habit, only to correct attitude; did not break down over the threshold, only the legs up.
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“Not bad,” he remarked, rubbing his stubbled chin.
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Ah, that sounds very amiable here; but in five minutes you'll be murmuring in Miss Bandoline's ear, -- 'I've been pining to come to you this half hour, but I was obliged to take out that Miss Wilder, you see, -- countrified little thing enough, but not bad-looking, and has a rich aunt; so I've done my duty to her, but deuse take me if I can stand it any longer.'
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863
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The free drink was a well drink or a beer, not bad.
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Their Spritz al Bitter is a speciality and wines and whiskeys are fairly priced and generously portioned - not bad for a bar in Italy.
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And it is not bad luck when the other team 's goalkeeper makes good saves.
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If that were not bad enough, it turns out that the signage is so complicated that the airline employees whose job is to direct passengers to their flights do not even know where many places are or how to explain how to get there.
Frank A. Weil: Through a Monstrous Looking Glass
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And if that’s not bad enough, my gran is a motorcycle riding social worker with tattoos from one end of her body to the other.
Bliss « A Fly in Amber
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Not bad for salt and has 1.5 teaspoons of sugar.
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Not bad for a people commentators sometimes suggest may be pathologically unreceptive to democracy.
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As a primer, it's not bad, and as a splashproof topcoat it's pretty good, but its best quality?
Times, Sunday Times
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You seem upset - not bad news , I hope?
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If they were no-added-sugar celery flavoured rusks, then they'd probably be not bad for you at all.
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Not bad science knowledge, but not knowledge; does not do bad things, and only do good things. No change of habit, only to correct attitude; did not break down over the threshold, only the legs up.
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His voice, according to Sadd, was "not good enough and not bad enough" to settle his fate, so he continued with the singing lessons he couldn't afford and, as I would platitudinize to his father, "after all, it's his life.
Working Murder
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It gives the LP editor no pleasure to report that staff had taken to sneaking nips of Jameson from the prize and then, as if such larceny were not bad enough, topping up the bottle with water.
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If the driver panics, that is another matter, but that is user error -- not bad engineering.
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Not bad considering their average age is still only 22..
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The Penguin edition is not bad at all, with decent footnotes drawing attention to where Caesar is nuancing the story to make himself look better (the book was published shortly after his return to Rome, engaged in the struggle which ended with him becoming Dictator in 49 BC).
The Dodecahedra
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I ascertained that the driver was not badly hurt.
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As if this was not bad enough, the article was accompanied by a vulgar colour photograph of the winning side in various stages of undress.
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She begins to feel that needs can be met, that unsatisfied needs are not bad, and that she is not bad for having them.
Eating Problems: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Treatment Model
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Not bad science knowledge, but not knowledge; does not do bad things, and only do good things. No change of habit, only to correct attitude; did not break down over the threshold, only the legs up.
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Not bad considering their average age is still only 22..
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It cost 2 dalasi per person which is only about 10 cents for a full length film...not bad.
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Considering we ve got such shit players and shit management that s not bad is it.
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It's not bad for you to honey your boss.
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Not bad science knowledge, but not knowledge; does not do bad things, and only do good things. No change of habit, only to correct attitude; did not break down over the threshold, only the legs up.
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Mini did - not bad for something Sir Alec Issigonis sketched out in response to the national fuel shortage of the late Fifties.
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She was a company director before she was 25; that's not bad going!
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It is fortunate that her two other dogs - a German Shepherd and Pekinese - are not badly affected and settle for hiding under the kitchen table.
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Sex and the City says we're all terribly lonely - and as if that's not bad enough, we're all terribly horny, too.
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As if that's not bad enough, my pipettes were pilfered by the student/postdocs and are now broken, overwound and/or covered in a sludge that may or may not be biological waste.
Messy labs - Part 2
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Its Mr Hamalton's way of teaching us responsibly on looking after kids… Plus as if that's not bad enough tomorrow night is Parent / Teacher night… ugh!
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As if the ordeal of a trial were not bad enough, he and Dolores must now face an arguably worse fate.
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Take away the 2.2 birds killed by the rotors, and the balance for wind energy, + 1707.8 birds per turbine a year, is not bad.
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The wine list is not bad either.
The Sun
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As if that were not bad enough, it does not even appear that the credible alternative leaders are willing to make a stand.
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Not bad for a bloke who claims to suffer from vertigo.
The Sun
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Not bad science knowledge, but not knowledge; does not do bad things, and only do good things. No change of habit, only to correct attitude; did not break down over the threshold, only the legs up.
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Not bad science knowledge, but not knowledge; does not do bad things, and only do good things. No change of habit, only to correct attitude; did not break down over the threshold, only the legs up.
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Aug 21st, 2007 at 9: 54 am paul the red snapper at le bernardin – pricey and fantastic! crab cakes at del friscos are not bad either!
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Not bad for a guy who had been slogging through advertising copy before chucking it all to chase his dream.
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The murals, not badly done, depicted Bacchanalian orgies from various eras of history.
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Tasted the _custode's_ lachryma Christi, which, if it be as good of the sort as he pretends, is middling stuff, but not bad with water.
The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Volume 1 (of 3)
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They are not bad in themselves but they're so weak-minded.
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They're loud and raucous, but not bad musicians.
Times, Sunday Times
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Overall, I'm not bad for a man knocking 60.
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Break a planer, an angle grinder, a knife, get cut but not badly.
Daily DIY
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And if that's not bad enough, now I've got telephone solicitors calling me for charity donations.
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Not bad for a mid-size player in a rapidly shrinking industry.
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The third of the trio had the soup, a minestrone and meatball, which was ‘not bad’ - hardly glowing praise.
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Footage captured at night was not bad, though, if a little fuzzy compared with the best on test.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not bad for three old jossers wandering along country lanes for a few hours!
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Not bad for a self-described 'guitar geek who got lucky'.
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Ado!" cried Rodney angrily, "is it not bad enough to be called messmate by _you_, and not be able to deny it?
The Lifeboat
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Many today would argue that international pressures to regulate less and tax less are good pressures, not bad pressures.
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Not bad for a chemical that started as an accident involving a substance aniline, phenylamine that stinks of rotting fish.
The Purpler Tree and the things you talked about last night.
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This detachment is not bad, but it should have the advantage of having as Camp
Work Camp 11017 GW
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A bit flavoury -- not bad, I mean -- but with something of the taste of a duck's egg.
The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories
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Not bad for a group that in 2009 was in breach of its banking covenants.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not bad, he thought, but he was so hungry he would have eaten just about anything by then.
AFTERMATH
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This is the 2 litre direct injection jobbie you find in various other VWs and Audis and it's normally not bad.
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The chocolate and mandarin gateau with cream for Ann was not bad but had clearly been in a refrigerator.
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Not bad at a time when the world economy is likely to have actually declined.
Times, Sunday Times
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They're only ￡40-not bad value, really.
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I was all right, not bad.
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February 1st, 2010 at 4: 37 pm tombaker says: that darned mosser, so proud of his grubby lil’ fingerbooger. not bad, for a feller who gave up on reality and sincerity so very long ago … if he prays hard, and stays in school and away from drugs, he mught just stand a fighting chance. lucky thing, for kids like him, that there are so many compassionate liberals in the world.
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Nowitzki turns his ankle on Sunday, McGrady’s back tightens up last night … if Gilbert’s sprain is not bad, 2 weeks might be doable since you know he’s going to go 24-hr rehab.
Matthew Yglesias » When It Rains
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The abcd abcd efg efg rhyming scheme isn't traditional, but it's not bad for occasional verse.
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Not bad for a man who has had two hip operations.
Times, Sunday Times
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A book that's not bad in context that would fall flat presented in modern terms.
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‘Not bad for your first time, Davis,’ Johnson says as I cross the metal strip that marks the end of the course.
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They're not badly-off but they don't have much money to spare.
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He stamped his feet, pranced, nickered a not bad imitation of Mountain Lad, tossed an imaginary mane, and cried:
CHAPTER X
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The chicken tikka is a little too sweet side, but it’s not bad.
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Not bad for one of football's dodgiest wingers.
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Of this epitaph the first couplet is good, the second not bad, the third is deformed with a broken metaphor, the word crowned not being applicable to the honours or the lays, and the fourth is not only borrowed from the epitaph on Raphael, but of a very harsh construction.
Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope
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Not bad for a movie filmed almost entirely in a language considered long dead.
Christianity Today
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The overall winner will pick up something like £500,000, which is not bad for a tenner per entry.
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In no time we all filled our plates and demolished the food which was not bad for home cooking.
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I've always done well there - quarters, semis and a fourth round I think is not bad.
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Not bad from an industry typically early into any downturn: company ad budgets get cut first.
Times, Sunday Times
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I console myself with the prose - not bad prose but pedagogic, over-correct prose - written by anglophones who have written French.
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Oh Fiona what do you think of our new flat mate Tony then, not bad looking eh Fiona.
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Not bad for a graduate in literature and one who normally took evasive action at the sight of a screwdriver.
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She had her own company by 25-not bad going!
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They're loud and raucous, but not bad musicians.
Times, Sunday Times
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Still, not bad for an original artwork.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not bad from an industry typically early into any downturn: company ad budgets get cut first.
Times, Sunday Times
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As if that was not bad enough, Murphy then gave away a second penalty - earning himself a red card as well - to leave Shrimps looking at a hiding.
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Burnell considered this not bad at all.
Somewhere East of Life
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Not bad science knowledge, but not knowledge; does not do bad things, and only do good things. No change of habit, only to correct attitude; did not break down over the threshold, only the legs up.
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If this is not bad enough, a large percentage of women sentenced to prison on parole violations have not committed any new crimes, but rather were returned for not passing their urine tests.
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Note to Greybird: check out my comments box, look wot I did… all on my own… not bad, eh?
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As much as I love it, its strong taste overpowers the avocado - not bad guacamole, but I like a subtler variety.
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Not bad for a team who, six months ago, were thrown out of the qualifying competition for fielding an ineligible player.
Times, Sunday Times
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I feel too yechy to get up but not bad enough to sleep.
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It's not bad, it's just limited, small-scale, almost obsolete when compared to some of the other tracks.
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Is it smart to work from outside, and try to lobby the city council to understand sitting on park benches is not bad, or that sex work is actual work, or that sex and porn is different than (and does not lead to) sexual trafficking?
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Not bad for a sick day entertainment:) queen1988 #entertainment In Jackson finale, seeds of rehabilitation (AFP) allobetchhh I need entertainment.
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Not bad for a bloke who claims to suffer from vertigo.
The Sun
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Not bad for a mere pop single.
Times, Sunday Times
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As I have been part of the filming process for movies it was not bad, and the fact we may make it onto the DVD extras is not bad either.
Tron Legacy Viral: Flynn Lives Group Invades Encom Press Conference in San Francisco | /Film
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Paige groaned, looking at her stomach critically, which had expanded a tiny, teensy bit; not bad at all, but she was ashamed of her unfit body.
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They needed to be resoled after 2 years but a $40 repair on a $300 pair of shoes is not bad.
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Footage captured at night was not bad, though, if a little fuzzy compared with the best on test.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not bad for a leisure business in a moribund economy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Och, Moira, acushla, sure an 'I know how 'tis to ye --" And then with a reaction to virtue, he said sternly, "An 'if they're not bad, why do they go when you call on the blessed saints?
Hillsboro People
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Not bad for a bathroom completely refurbished 18 months ago.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not bad for an outfit that began with one man in a former cocoa works, operating on a one-year-only grant of £15,000.
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In all, the experiment cost an underbudget 1,300 — not bad for building an entire life from scratch.
The Sun
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The parcel leans against a wall hectically Blu-tacked with Julian's drawings: from potato men sprouting arms and legs "My Mummy", to skyscrapers and towers and a not bad charcoal sketch of Raffael, their old alsatian, tattered but surviving.
Polly Samson | The Man Who Fell
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The avuncular groover, born Trevor Beresford Romeo, has picked up an OBE, an Ivor Novello, and two Grammys – not bad going since he started his DJ career pushing bass bins around on shopping trolleys when the budget wouldn't stretch to a bus ticket.
Clubs picks of the week
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However, despite a balance that favors the orchestral winds, the sound is not bad at all.
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Not bad for an old geezer!
The Sun
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And that's not bad for a spacious five-door hatchback.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not bad, and at £4.30 I could forgive the marrowfat peas.
Plymouth's 10 best budget restaurants and cafes
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The ship's only reported mishap came when a coxswain was hit in the neck (but not badly wounded) by a bullet ricocheting off a modern pentathlete's target.
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Not bad for a college dropout from Co Antrim.
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Not bad for a college dropout from Co Antrim.
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It´s essentially chicken stew mixed with a type of maize alcohol called chicha - it tastes disgusting by itself but the food was not bad, even with my contribution!
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A further eight police forces showed some deterioration, but it was not bad enough for them to be reclassified.
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Not bad for a company supposedly in crisis.
Times, Sunday Times
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But he then winds up having three gold medals and two silvers, which is not bad, from his point of view.
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Not bad for a city that started out as a military outpost of Auckland.
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Not bad for selling a company whose share price has limped along for years.
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In March 1917 he received one of those wounds named affectionately by Tommies as a ‘Blighty’ wound - bad enough for you to be sent back home but not bad enough to keep you incapacitated for ever.
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The same policies that have destroyed our public services and infrastructure, as well as creating a mindless, self-centred society, where a drug taking mugger is reggarded as being morally equivalent to you or I, he’s not bad you understand – just different!
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Burnell considered this not bad at all.
Somewhere East of Life
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An unspeakably ugly cake, but not bad if you ignore the icing and marzipan.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not bad. You know that feeling, trying to blow a Saint Bernard out your ass?
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Not bad for a leisure business in a moribund economy.
Times, Sunday Times
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The approximations are not bad (giving errors of around 20 %), but this situation is hardly satisfactory.
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The doc's not bad, I decided; she rates a seven, give or take a little.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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Not bad, eh?" said Luzi, waving a hand over the parquet flooring, new washing machine, dishwasher and refrigerator in the kitchen-diner of the two-bedroom flat.
The Guardian World News
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'Not bad,' she conceded grudgingly.
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However, in spite of the conference's attempted focus on the 1960s, Watten's talk was one of the few to actually attempt a contextualizing framework of the decade - not bad for a poet who seeks to subvert direct referentiality in his work.
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Not bad going for a dairy farmer.
The Sun
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He hit around +7 or so in his buzzword bingo score by our count, not bad for the bit more than two sentences we could bear to quote.
The Inquirer
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That was not bad for a first attempt.
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Not bad at all & I had a night cap of decent intown pizza too, so it worked out just swell.
Progressive Holiday Party tomorrow night (Blog for Democracy)
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The chronic pancreatitis whole nation family hospital is not bad administer?
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Wade was smart and not bad-looking, and he could be funny when he wanted to.
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And as if that were not bad enough, he pays them compensation out of what he calls the coffers of Rebecca.
Truly
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As a friend he is not bad, but as an employer, he is a pain in the neck.
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Try Stohrer in rue Montorgueil. not as good as the Real Thing, but not bad
Pasteis de nata
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He's not bad looking but is sporting a mullet, singlet and silver chain.
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Not bad for a college dropout from Co Antrim.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not badly at all, given the immense difficulty of restoring credibility to Labour as a party of government.
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Not bad for a day's nonwork.
Times, Sunday Times
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This further exchange simply underlined the judge's view that counsel was prone to making not bad or mistaken points, but false ones.
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After the debrief, I found out I had shut down with 2,100 pounds of fuel remaining - not bad for a shore-based flight.
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Privacy, space, and refinement are not bad things and we tend to choose them when we can and work in order to purchase more of them, though in the process, we may end up spending less time in environments with haimish and not experience the warm interactions with others that tend to happen in those places.
Michael Rossmann, SJ: Finding God And Community In Simple Dwellings
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Not bad for a bathroom completely refurbished 18 months ago.
Times, Sunday Times
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Call it an impressionistic memoir: as such it's not bad.
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Not bad for a band whose lineup has only been together a couple of years and who inked a big record deal with just a handful of live appearances under their belts.
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When I go out and about people have incredible affection for me and I think well, that's not bad.
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Shepherd's pie is usually quite good, and other ‘pub grub’ - like bangers and mash, sausage and mashed potatoes - is not bad either.
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Not bad for a guy who's never been to school, still has trouble readin' a book with no pictures.
A DARKENING STAIN
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How are you, mate?" — "Not bad, mate, how's yourself?".
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Not bad for a man who is regularly dismissed as boring and uncharismatic.
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Not bad for a "plodder", and not bad for the man whose style of play is the antithesis of the modern day "bomb and gouge" style.
Luke Donald faces Martin Kaymer in Match Play Championship final
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Great monopolists control the supplies, and contract to deliver to these hotels, even in out-of-the-way localities, so much ice-stored, "mousey" fish, "mousey" quails, stringy meat, impossible vegetables and fruits, gathered from the cheapest markets of Europe and of a quality just not bad enough to cause a revolt among the hotel visitors.
More Science From an Easy Chair
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The Hawks are stuck in a rut of being bad enough to miss the play-offs but not bad enough to end up with a franchise player in the draft.
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A second, two thirds and a fourth from four Festival visits - not bad for a horse who supposedly prefers right-handed tracks.
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Not bad science knowledge, but not knowledge; does not do bad things, and only do good things. No change of habit, only to correct attitude; did not break down over the threshold, only the legs up.
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Correction, Senator Bennett scored the 64 in 2008, his lifetime is about an 83, not bad.
Public anger is 'why I am in trouble,' Bennett says
