Example sentences of "good as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it works the better as the fingers slide and touch and play while you close your eyes and empty your head of every other sensation being fed into it . |
| 2 | Under certain conditons this approximation gets better as the sample size gets larger . |
| 3 | Oxford got better as the game went on . |
| 4 | On the contrary ; he seemed to get better as the game progressed , winning tackles as if to order , losing little in the air . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Nicholas was sympathetic : ‘ He is only as good as the players we give him . ’ |
| 9 | Good as the concert was , it was rather too middle of the road for a tour titled ‘ The The vs The World ’ and , sadly for fans of the more paranoid earlier work , Johnson 's attempts to darken the proceedings ended up looking silly . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Now I 'm quite happy to argue we 're twice as good as the Japanese , but I 'm not prepared to claim we 're four times as good , which is what these figures suggest . |
| 12 | On paper it has the price , performance and specification to worry a car as good as the Vauxhall Carlton GSi 3000 24v . |
| 13 | He looked smashing , he decided , shyly proud , as good as the Duke of Edinburgh any day . |
| 14 | The working principle of Balcon 's life was that a ‘ film producer is only as good as the sum total of the colleagues with whom he works ’ , and he understood better than anyone else at the time how to turn the studio into a source of creative energy . |
| 15 | Cannelini beans replaced tinned and a bechamel mixed with Pecorino Romano from Lina Stores , Brewer Street , London W1 , stood in for the cottage cheese , It was every bit as good as the original , if somewhat more sophisticated . |
| 16 | Prospects for the highest-rated shares to open at a premium of up to 30 per cent continued to look good as the stock market held steady yesterday . |
| 17 | Prospects for the highest-rated shares to open at a premium of up to 30 per cent continued to look good as the stock market held steady yesterday . |
| 18 | The painting is not nearly as good as the recent Young Contemporaries show in Manchester , where the sculpture was non-existent . |
| 19 | The street clothes had to look as good as the stage clothes . |
| 20 | We can never get it as good as the black people do , 'cause it 's their music . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Though perhaps not quite as good as the banana . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ It 's as good as The Living Body , is n't it ? ’ said Elinor . |
| 23 | But then these bands do n't realise they ca n't make records as good as the Stones . |
| 24 | It bubbled and spat through a layer of brown scum that stained the outside of the pan , but it smelt good , almost as good as the dinners Frankie sometimes had at school . |
| 25 | ‘ She 's decided the Empire Road launderette is n't as good as the old one , in Cambridge Street , though , ’ he told Mrs Ames . |
| 26 | I know as good as the next man what is hip but we decided to forget all that and just concentrate on good songs . |
| 27 | Good as the band may well be , they ca n't escape the fact that huge gigs are not the most enjoyable of experiences . |
| 28 | I just could n't take a journey in a confined space with a man who pronounced Sgurr na Ciste Duibhe as Sisty Dub and did n't think it was as good as the Lake District . |
| 29 | As understatements go , it 's a beauty — a bit like saying the Sun newspaper is not quite as good as The Independent . |
| 30 | A 67 in those conditions was as good as the famous Henry Cotton 65 . |