Example sentences of "[verb] at good " in BNC.
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| 1 | Objectively the chances of reaching the Chancellor 's 3 per cent growth target in 1994 are mixed at best . |
| 2 | IBM has invested so much in the development of , and so much more in the marketing of , OS/2 2.0 that it has to plough on with it even if in 18 months ' time it becomes clear that it is becoming at best a respectable also-ran in the desktop stakes . |
| 3 | Here too the distinction was not absolute , and hides many other differences ; but the bulk of the lower clergy were half educated at best , and led quite a different life from their superiors . |
| 4 | When he plays Sibelius with the New York Philharmonic tomorrow , a rare appearance here , they expect at best a draw . |
| 5 | Mr. Pannick , for the Secretary of State , reminds us that a prisoner serving a sentence of life imprisonment has no right to be released on licence ; he has at best a hope that the Secretary of State will release him in the exercise of his discretion under section 61(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 1967 . |
| 6 | To date , the Oxfordshire scheme has at best only partially met its intention to promote a greater ( contractual ) accountability in schools . |
| 7 | Furthermore , he has at best only two years of political life ahead of him . |
| 8 | As the group moved at best speed towards the start line , evidence of the recent tank battle littered the area . |
| 9 | Britain 's current " standfast policy " was deemed at best a short-term solution . |
| 10 | Benefits are withheld for reasons indirectly related at best to the activity in question . |
| 11 | BLENHEIM Group , the leading exhibitions organiser with a strong City following , yesterday revealed better-than-expected annual results and hinted at better to come . |
| 12 | When English was established in British universities criticism played at best a minor part in it . |
| 13 | In part this was due to his commitment to the nationalist cause , though he played at best a minor role in the creation of Connolly 's Irish Citizen Army . |
| 14 | A coherent strategy for retrospective conversion has not been attempted for the UK ( although it is known that there are stirrings of such an initiative in a European context , involving the British Library ) and lack of institutional funding for such unglamorous activities has ensured at best a piecemeal approach . |
| 15 | Look at better ways to get rid of used nappies . |
| 16 | Disgruntled governors who feel , rightly or wrongly , that they are not fully informed about the school can become at best difficult and at worst disruptive to LMS and its development . |
| 17 | Given an electorate of 28 million , the final four opinion polls sampled at best 0.0098 per cent and at worst 0.0062 per cent . |
| 18 | There is often disagreement between spouses ; wives complain at best about lack of help and support from their husbands , at worst that their husbands make increased demands and take out their frustrations about the relative on their wives ; husbands complain that their wives are so |
| 19 | Wall Street is beginning to firm up its forecasts for IBM Corp 's first quarter figures , with the consensus at around 20 cents a share and the more bearish going for 50 cents — but if Technology News of America 's straw poll of the market around the US and Europe is anywhere near right , the loss is going to be a whole lot worse than that : the returns suggest that the company will have sold at best between 25 and 30 mainframes this quarter , where the Wall Street forecasts assume it did nearer 50 machines . |
| 20 | Wall Street is beginning to firm up its forecasts for IBM Corp 's first quarter figures , with the consensus at around 20 cents a share and the more bearish going for 50 cents — but if Technology News of America 's straw poll of the market around the US and Europe is anywhere near right , the loss is going to be a whole lot worse than that : the returns suggest that the company will have sold at best between 25 and 30 mainframes this quarter , where the Wall Street forecasts assume it did nearer 50 machines . |
| 21 | ‘ We still trade from there , but in order to thrive we have had to look at better ways of selling . ’ |
| 22 | Employees need to look at better ergonomic furniture . |
| 23 | Given the time it takes to write and then publish a book , our apparently insatiable appetite for the stuff causes real problems : the satirical observation conceived now is likely to look at best , a little tired , and , at worst , incomprehensible , in twelve to eighteen months ' time . |
| 24 | Compulsive investors in the UK 's OTC market enjoy at best a love-hate relationship with the stocks , the dealers , and the whole manic unpredictability of it all , weighted against their interests though it is . |
| 25 | It demonstrates that the totalization is never achieved and that the totality exists at best only in the form of a detotalized totality . ’ |
| 26 | These images build up into stereotypes ; generalizations about what is to be expected of older people , which are based at best on partial information rather than the full diversity of their real lives . |
| 27 | It is in fact a movement : a coming together of teachers whose common conviction it is that teaching up to now has been conducted in far too random and amateurish a fashion , based at best on a kind of inspired guesswork , and that it ought to be possible by putting our minds to it , and applying the sort of thinking that is successful in other fields , to do a better job than before . |
| 28 | Since none of the countries have the separate specialty of venereology or genito-urinary medicine , the undergraduate teaching on these diseases is fragmented at best and may even be nonexistent . |
| 29 | The weak interwar democracy serves as the model for an authoritarian rule today in which parliamentary opposition and public criticism are resentfully tolerated at best . |
| 30 | Moving at best , but too often tricksy . |