Example sentences of "[prep] good a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he does as good a job on the new houses then no one will object . ’ |
| 2 | If she told them what she was doing they would probably support her , probably do as good a job for her as they did for Nina . |
| 3 | Although dualistic it was quite different from Platonism : cosmic time was not the moving image of eternity but ‘ at best a caricature of eternity , a defective imitation far removed from its model ’ . |
| 4 | But a track record of success is at best a measure of past management expertise in fair times . |
| 5 | Clearly such arrangements were not ideal — they could be exhausting for children and were at best a compromise among the law , the need for education , and the reality of poverty . |
| 6 | There are numerous difficulties in making an historical study which depends entirely on written evidence , which may not represent the experience of the mass of children , and is at best a distillation of the views of the literate classes . |
| 7 | Like the legendary biographies of the Romantic poets , realism is at best a by-product of art and not its raison d'être . |
| 8 | The Estlins hoped that at best a merger of the BFASS and others could be achieved . |
| 9 | Without it , we would have been left with the feeling that natural selection is only a destructive process , or at best a process of weeding-out . |