Example sentences of "[prep] as good [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We searched for kilometres — it seemed — to find a crossing point , eventually reaching a lake and being forced to cross at a place that was nowhere near as good as a dozen we had passed and dismissed as unsuitable . |
| 2 | ‘ I still use Marshalls and I 've got a 100-watt head , although it 's nowhere near as good as an early '60s 50-watt Marshall which I used for about nine years before it got stolen . |
| 3 | It 's slow , flickery and nowhere near as good as the PD version we had on the Megatape . |
| 4 | Unfortunately the resemblance ends there as his songs are nowhere near as good as the master 's . |
| 5 | They rarely look anywhere near as good as the real thing , but they will be cheaper , and easier to keep clean . |
| 6 | Having watched Leeds during their high spots , particularly the early 70's , I feel that the Championship team of 1992 , while not being individually anywhere near as good as the old masters , the TEAM itself played more attractive and exciting football . |
| 7 | Now you 've got I mean the autostradas that they build are n't as good as , as , nowhere near as good as the autobahns in er in Germany and through th you know , Switzerland and that . |
| 8 | They have been so successful that the strongest machines available are now about as good as the best mainframes of five years ago . |
| 9 | The images were returned by the on-board TV cameras and yielded detail on the Mercurian surface down to about 1 km across , about as good as the Moon viewed through a telescope with a magnification of × 120 and about 300 times better than the pre-Mariner 10 images . |