Example sentences of "good as the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it 's only as good as the person putting it in . |
| 2 | ‘ Though perhaps not quite as good as the banana . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But remember , codes have no legal status and they are only as good as the organisation 's power to enforce them . |
| 5 | ( 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 . ) |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | The most stringent policy document advocating the best practice is only as good as the level of compliance achieved . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | My shilling is as good as the King 's . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A phone is only as good as the system it is plugged into . |
| 12 | Visits are only as good as the preparation made before them . |
| 13 | Unfortunately the resemblance ends there as his songs are nowhere near as good as the master 's . |
| 14 | Is she really as good as the lab boys say ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | He looked smashing , he decided , shyly proud , as good as the Duke of Edinburgh any day . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But even the buttons do n't feel as good as the music . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Prospects for the highest-rated shares to open at a premium of up to 30 per cent continued to look good as the stock market held steady yesterday . |
| 23 | Prospects for the highest-rated shares to open at a premium of up to 30 per cent continued to look good as the stock market held steady yesterday . |
| 24 | The working principle of Balcon 's life was that a ‘ film producer is only as good as the sum total of the colleagues with whom he works ’ , and he understood better than anyone else at the time how to turn the studio into a source of creative energy . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | A racing driver 's only as good as the car he drives ; even when he 's the prodigious Johnny Herbert . |
| 27 | A lie is not simply as good as the truth : it is better , because unlike the truth , lies are completely malleable and creatures of their maker . |
| 28 | The indemnity is , of course , only as good as the vendor and , if appropriate , its guarantor . |
| 29 | Er a person 's always as good as the team behind him |
| 30 | 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 ! |