Example sentences of "as good [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the other thing is of course that Mrs is d doing like she 's taking the , the modern musicals and things that have been , you know , down in London , like Cats and Starlight Express and things and she 's trying to imitate those , well there 's no way she could ever get it as good so she 's better off doing something completely different . |
| 2 | Readers can be expected to spot which of these quotations are forgeries , and they must also have doubted in their time whether this writer was as good as the early tributes made out . |
| 3 | By these standards , Levi would appear to be an imperfect Jew , and this could well be an opinion that underlies the talk about his later books being not nearly as good as his earlier ones . |
| 4 | These tend to rot in the sun and though the treads might be as good as new , they will have to be changed because of the cracks in the walls . |
| 5 | I 'm being allowed onto her ecologically correct territory , and no one there will know how we kissed and almost , as good as , made love … but I will and she will . |
| 6 | She decided to treat herself as good as she would if she was In Love with Jay . |
| 7 | But there will never be an exercise as good as squats for working all of the muscles together . |
| 8 | Of course even the best power carving system is only as good as its edge . |
| 9 | Where these opportunities are not as good as possible , we have tried to show some of the many ways in which older people can be helped . |
| 10 | If you are looking for a picture book on Nepal for a present or a memento of a trip then this is certainly as good as , if not better than , many of its rivals . |
| 11 | His view is that what the Soviet Union has in small quantities is as good as the technology of the West , but that the country lacks the ability to turn out production volumes . |
| 12 | As a result , the mobility of the charges as they travel through the transistor is twice as good as any similar , submicron p-channel mosfet transistor yet built . |
| 13 | At a time when Pound was principally a student of Provençal poetry , he appears to have been as good as his word , and to have travelled on foot over the terrain in question . |
| 14 | Waugh 's ‘ senile slobber ’ against Eliot — he as good as called Eliot ‘ a drunken helot ’ — has been remarked on several times , notably in his son Evelyn 's autobiography , A Little Learning . |
| 15 | I do not expect to see another version as good as Binyon 's … |
| 16 | I say new civilization , I do n't know that I care about its being so very different from the best that has been , but it must be as good as the best that has been . |
| 17 | Nicholas was sympathetic : ‘ He is only as good as the players we give him . ’ |
| 18 | Robertson recognised that women in her profession must be twice as good as men to progess as far in their work . |
| 19 | Lowndes found that management controls and stock levels were not as good as they had hoped . |
| 20 | A spiritual void needs to be satisfied , so what is offered as serious and sacrosanct must be as good as it pretends . |
| 21 | These will end up in the pot , a bit skinny from their hyper-active existence , but tasting five times as good as any bird you can buy . |
| 22 | Bradford 's Yorkshire Cup semi-final replay against Halifax , if it is half as good as the first game at Thrum Hall , will be the most keenly contested of tomorrow 's fixtures . |
| 23 | But it seems a shame not to challenge yourself because other people say you 're not as good as you used to be . |
| 24 | Hence ‘ a policeman is only as good as his interest in his and surrounding areas ’ ( FN 30/11/87 , p. 28 ) . |
| 25 | Not as good as yesterday evening when I dined on roast chicken , not very well cooked , but certainly much better than this homely fare . |
| 26 | That dream was as good as my last leave . ’ |
| 27 | Crossing over to the sink he bent down , lifted up two floorboards and produced a small wooden barrel , exclaiming , ‘ Now , Piper , you must try this , it 's almost as good as your best Highland whisky . ’ |
| 28 | In the Tver guberniia conditions in 1926 were as good as anywhere outside a few industrial regions . |
| 29 | After several hundred miles they are as good as new with a reassuring grip in most conditions . |
| 30 | At the end of this test I can find no failings in the manufacture or materials of the Veta V. Despite all the use I 've made of them they are as good as new . |