Example sentences of "[verb] at good [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Benefits are withheld for reasons indirectly related at best to the activity in question . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Once myth was destroyed , the metaphysical drive survived at best in attenuated form in the Socratic search for knowledge ; and at worst in a religious syncretism that led only to complete triviality or exotic superstition . |
| 8 | Dens Dark Jewel of Jagen , winning at Best in Show level ( All Breeds ) and Jagen Blue Miami Dolphin , a bitch who gained her title quite quickly . |
| 9 | IN A culture and a century that have doubts about matching up to Prince Hamlet , feeling fitted at best to the role of attendant lord , it 's astonishing that Shakespeare 's Henry V should become , except at a time of national emergency , a resonant figure of any sort . |