Example sentences of "at good [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 But we can be fairly confident , as a starting-point , that Rizzio , Darnley and Bothwell , chief actors in the drama of the last two years of her personal rule , are at best only a part of the explanation .
2 Initial research suggests that at best only a very marginal decrease in the long distance deposit of acid rain would result from a major reduction of sulphur emissions from the UK . ’
3 Intelligence , even codebreaking , is at best only a fragmented adjunct to strategic planning .
4 Neglect or minimization of a task is at best only a short-term expedient , and the housewife 's awareness of this fact causes time pressures to be felt possibly more acutely than they are in other kinds of work .
5 In particular , we need to know far more about those numerous families which moved from the countryside but which experienced only a hum-drum life in the towns or at best only a modest prosperity .
6 Even then , there may be limits to an exclusion — if it is drawn so widely as to protect a party from all liability , even for total non-performance , its effect may be that the party has promised nothing ; there is therefore no contract , or at best only a unilateral one .
7 As more than half the population do not pay income tax this is at best only a half-truth .
8 Furthermore , because of the concentration of the Communist vote in certain traditional strongholds , they have high hopes of holding on to some 20 of their present 26 parliamentary seats , whereas the National Front and the Greens may not win any , or at best only a handful .
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