Example sentences of "[adv] good as the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But even the buttons do n't feel as good as the music .
2 Is she really as good as the lab boys say ? ’
3 Well it 's only as good as the person putting it in .
4 Having said that , in a public sector context the income figure as a measure of performance can only be as good as the competitiveness of the markets in which it is earned allows .
5 Visits are only as good as the preparation made before them .
6 Implying that the water we supply is worse than what 's in Europe , and the sewage effluence we put into rivers is not as good as the rest of Europe .
7 He looked smashing , he decided , shyly proud , as good as the Duke of Edinburgh any day .
8 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 .
9 ‘ Though perhaps not quite as good as the banana . ’
10 The most stringent policy document advocating the best practice is only as good as the level of compliance achieved .
11 C. A few years ago , a group of farmers in eastern Britain decided that the market price they were offered for milk , from dairy cows fed on grass , was not as good as the price they could get for beef cattle , which are fattened in pens by being fed with crops of barley .
12 My shilling is as good as the King 's .
13 ( 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 . )
14 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 ) .
15 I treasure the photographs I took of Jack , and following its refurbishment the instrument sounds as good as the day he fashioned it all those years ago — a credit to the man and fitting epitaph to his expertise .
16 ‘ The deputy tries to prove to his manager that he is as good as the man he is replacing , ’ said Broos , doubtless applying that theory to all of Rangers ' outfield worries .
17 A phone is only as good as the system it is plugged into .
18 Unfortunately the resemblance ends there as his songs are nowhere near as good as the master 's .
19 But remember , codes have no legal status and they are only as good as the organisation 's power to enforce them .
20 ‘ 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 .
21 As understatements go , it 's a beauty — a bit like saying the Sun newspaper is not quite as good as The Independent .
22 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 .
23 His view is that what the Soviet Union has in small quantities is as good as the technology of the West , but that the country lacks the ability to turn out production volumes .
24 A claim that the product is not as good as the purchaser expected is a claim for economic loss , which traditionally should be brought in contract .
25 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 .
26 Er a person 's always as good as the team behind him
27 Praise indeed , and you 'll find the traditional inns that we 've selected for your accommodation are every bit as good as the food they serve !
28 The food was good , fresh meat and bone , but though it was better than anything Creggan had had since he had been caught , nothing ever seemed to taste as good as the food he remembered from his homesite .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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