Example sentences of "[adv] as [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I 've persuaded the people who matter that I 'm the best man to work with you to help us clear this up , but I 'm like a football manager , Cameron ; I can be replaced at a moment 's notice and I 'm only as good as the results I get . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | There is a clear analogy to computers here which are only as good as the individuals who are responsible for their programs : An error in either case results in chaos . |
| 34 | But remember , codes have no legal status and they are only as good as the organisation 's power to enforce them . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | The most stringent policy document advocating the best practice is only as good as the level of compliance achieved . |
| 37 | The strength of any restaurant business lies in its reputation — you are only as good as the last meal you have served — and in order to preserve the high standards that have brought this business so very far , Forte need people who can match the best in the industry : people with some supervisory level experience under their belts ; with a real commitment to customer service , lots of enthusiasm and driving ambition . |
| 38 | The indemnity is , of course , only as good as the vendor and , if appropriate , its guarantor . |
| 39 | Even then , of course , an indemnity is only as good as the persons required to give it : and if the equity partners themselves become bankrupt in the wake of the firm 's insolvency , the salaried partner is left exposed . |
| 40 | A racing driver 's only as good as the car he drives ; even when he 's the prodigious Johnny Herbert . |
| 41 | ‘ A grammar or secondary school is only as good as the quality of primary education and the girls who are coming into the school . |
| 42 | A man 's only as good as the |
| 43 | Well it 's only as good as the person putting it in . |
| 44 | This is only as good as the screws holding it in place in your front door . |
| 45 | A manager is only as strong as the staff will enable that manager to be ? |
| 46 | Telemine is only as large as a conventional torpedo — of which two British versions were sufficient to sink the Argentinian cruiser General Belgrano with the loss of more than 300 lives during the Falklands war last summer . |
| 47 | Note that the orbit is only as large as the Sun 's diameter and in addition the separation r of the stars varies by a factor over any orbit . |
| 48 | To this could be added the possibility of building the towers only as high as the wall itself , thus enabling the cannon used for defence to be moved along its length ( now on one level ) to whichever part it was most needed . |
| 49 | He assumes that his family is not only as old as the hills , but rather more structural , and that nature , although on the whole a good idea — ‘ a little low , perhaps , when not enclosed with a park-fence ’ — is none the less ‘ dependent for its execution on your great county families ’ . |
| 50 | Some were only as big as a chicken , while others grew to a length of about 5 metres . |
| 51 | And a heart is only as big as the love it holds : |
| 52 | Well that 's , it was n't a obviously as high as the flood twenty seven years ago . |
| 53 | The English aristocracy have , it seems , rather less to answer for than the French ; they are merely as redundant as the dinosaur . |
| 54 | Rather , after that first heart-clenching moment when she saw him — so tall , so incredibly right in formal dress — she felt more wretched than ever : he was merely as courteous as the occasion demanded . |
| 55 | This is not necessarily as great as the increase in the liabilities of the target company related to the breach of warranty , particularly if the purchaser has only paid a nominal price for the shares in the first place . |
| 56 | This was not necessarily as great as the frisson of excitement which comes from watching his jolly exciting films but it should not be disregarded for all that . |
| 57 | And , to descend to crude practicalities , you are going to get very much less money for what you have done , though it is only fair to add that if you are lucky and clever enough to create a story that catches editors ' fancies then it can be anthologised time and again and in the end bring in perhaps as much as a full-length book that has failed to get wide paperback sales . |
| 58 | On orders from the White House , perhaps as many as a million federal government emloyees are now subject to testing . |
| 59 | On some days ( not enjoyed by any of us ) perhaps as many as a quarter of our cases will be requests for euthanasia . |
| 60 | Here , there is less possibility of philosophical variation , but this second characterization of the nature of the causal items is perhaps as important as the first . |