Example sentences of "[adv] at good " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem comes in how these terms are defined : it is , for example , only at best very approximately true that nouns are ‘ the names of persons , places or things ’ , or that verbs are ‘ doing words ’ ; and in some instances it is not true at all . |
| 2 | Stabilisation of high-end systems is several quarters away at best , and the mainframe and storage declines contributed to a $1 per share decline in first quarter gross profits . |
| 3 | Stabilisation of high-end systems is several quarters away at best , and the mainframe and storage declines contributed to a $1 per share decline in first quarter gross profits . |
| 4 | The cases have thus at best produced further guidelines as to the sort of factors to be taken into account . |
| 5 | Elsewhere in the European Community , growth is slow at best , and in some countries the recession is still deepening . |
| 6 | America is trillions of pounds in debt , economic growth is slow at best around the world , the massive defence industry must wake up to a new post-Cold War world and the nation 's infrastructure is in deep disrepair . |
| 7 | This is because the ‘ syntax ’ of theory , the logic on which it is based , is at the root of structures which have historically been used to trivialize , marginalize , and devalue the discourse of women , to pass it off at best as a mere fiction , and at worst as an illicit form of language use or one in poor taste , like the pun . |
| 8 | Dundee 's Andy Nicol , to his astonishment , finds himself lining up against the All Blacks , having begun the season as the Scotland Students ' scrum-half with hopes , possibly at best , of a B-team cap . |
| 9 | Only the Queen , with a total annual income from the state of £475,000 , came out at better than American rates — $1,330,000 — but two-thirds of that sum was specifically for maintaining her enormous household . |
| 10 | At the time of his appointment to PFF , the Command was just getting used to GEE , thought originally to be a bombing aid but really at best an aid to navigation . |
| 11 | The modern convergence , which the contemporary sociology of culture embodies , is in fact an attempt to rework , from a particular set of interests , those general social and sociological ideas within which it has been possible to see communication , language and art as marginal and peripheral , or as at best secondary and derived social processes . |
| 12 | It was made the more difficult because the Iranians were at one remove from the hostage-takers ; even at best , all they could promise was to lean on Hizbollah and ask for a favour . |
| 13 | He could foresee , that even at best , many godly ministers would not agree with their proposals , and part of a bishop 's work would then be to ensure these men were silenced . |
| 14 | Even at best this is a rather crude approximation . |
| 15 | To the extent that the rescues were ideologically inspired and the businesses ideologically managed , then at best the ideology distracted attention from the true nature of the problems to be faced , and at worst served as an excuse for purporting to resolve them by decisions which were patently perverse . |
| 16 | However , since management courses tend to concentrate on basic tasks and procedures , there is a risk that the much larger matters signalled here will be treated rudimentarily at best . |
| 17 | Never at best able to make both ends meet they have become very badly off indeed since the last rise in rents … |