Example sentences of "[adv] as good as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But remember , codes have no legal status and they are only as good as the organisation 's power to enforce them . |
| 2 | The most stringent policy document advocating the best practice is only as good as the level of compliance achieved . |
| 3 | Well it 's only as good as the person putting it in . |
| 4 | A phone is only as good as the system it is plugged into . |
| 5 | Visits are only as good as the preparation made before them . |
| 6 | ‘ At the end of the day , a system is only as good as the user wants it to be , ’ says Peterborough Software 's David Laking . |
| 7 | I suppose a guitar is only as good as the number of styles you can successfully impose upon it , and this one went through the card without a problem . |
| 8 | The indemnity is , of course , only as good as the vendor and , if appropriate , its guarantor . |
| 9 | The solicitor 's defence is only as good as the quality of the information in the written documents . |
| 10 | ‘ A grammar or secondary school is only as good as the quality of primary education and the girls who are coming into the school . |
| 11 | Any guidebook is only as good as the input of information into it , and this is an opportunity to make sure the guide is up to date and accurate . |
| 12 | Though I do not doubt the considerable advances made in certain ultrasound centres in Britain and the United States in the use of fetal ultrasonography as an adjunct to prenatal diagnosis of fetal trisomy 21 , the evidence in the Down 's syndrome register is only as good as the information provided to the cytogenetics centres from people requesting karyotyping . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The strength of your business is only as good as the strength of its suppliers and customers , and the relationship will need to be a much closer , less adversarial one . |
| 15 | A racing driver 's only as good as the car he drives ; even when he 's the prodigious Johnny Herbert . |
| 16 | Er a person 's always as good as the team behind him |
| 17 | Is she really as good as the lab boys say ? ’ |
| 18 | America will soon be finding out whether their new president is really as good as the image he presented on TV . |
| 19 | A lie is not simply as good as the truth : it is better , because unlike the truth , lies are completely malleable and creatures of their maker . |
| 20 | ( Under the scheme , those who belong to an occupational scheme which provides a pension at least as good as the state can partially contract out of the state scheme and pay a lower contribution . ) |
| 21 | This scheme provided for a mixed system of public and private pensions , with many of the better paid and more secure groups of workers able to ‘ contract out ’ into private schemes so long as they were at least as good as the State Earnings Related Pensions Scheme ( SERPS ) . |
| 22 | There 's plenty of detail in the smaller pictures of the humans , too , and the book as a whole adds up to a great experience for a child — almost as good as a day out at the zoo ! ( 2–5 ) |
| 23 | It was almost as good as a ride at the fun fair . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ Though perhaps not quite as good as the banana . ’ |
| 26 | As understatements go , it 's a beauty — a bit like saying the Sun newspaper is not quite as good as The Independent . |