Example sentences of "at good [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , once this perspective is established , any assurance from the other side of real interest in disarmament will naturally be seen as a trick , or at best as a propaganda move . |
| 2 | This is because the ‘ syntax ’ of theory , the logic on which it is based , is at the root of structures which have historically been used to trivialize , marginalize , and devalue the discourse of women , to pass it off at best as a mere fiction , and at worst as an illicit form of language use or one in poor taste , like the pun . |
| 3 | These images build up into stereotypes ; generalizations about what is to be expected of older people , which are based at best on partial information rather than the full diversity of their real lives . |
| 4 | It is in fact a movement : a coming together of teachers whose common conviction it is that teaching up to now has been conducted in far too random and amateurish a fashion , based at best on a kind of inspired guesswork , and that it ought to be possible by putting our minds to it , and applying the sort of thinking that is successful in other fields , to do a better job than before . |
| 5 | In practice , like Richards , they had to rely on intuition rather than analysis , or at best on the consensus of experienced readers , a consensus which , the recent history of criticism seems to suggest , is not all that often achieved . |
| 6 | Solidarity with Southern nationalists is still a major Northern nationalist perception , despite the fact that they view their Southern compatriots at best with indifference and at worst as traitors who sold them out to the loyalists . |
| 7 | The IPA has commissioned a study to demonstrate that industry salaries are comparable at best with other professional advisers like lawyers and accountants . |
| 8 | Sinfield believed that they were often irredeemably tainted by ideology , at best to be read only in historical terms , or subject to symptomatic readings , seeking the fractures and fissures in the mystified surface of the text that showed the ‘ true ’ ideological conditions in which it was produced . |
| 9 | IN A culture and a century that have doubts about matching up to Prince Hamlet , feeling fitted at best to the role of attendant lord , it 's astonishing that Shakespeare 's Henry V should become , except at a time of national emergency , a resonant figure of any sort . |
| 10 | Benefits are withheld for reasons indirectly related at best to the activity in question . |
| 11 | ‘ Nothing in human experience has prepared men , women and children for the modern television techniques of fixing human attention and creating the uncritical mood required to sell goods , many of which are marginal at best to human needs ’ ( Bagdikian , 1989 , p.819 ) . |
| 12 | They had not approved of the baby ; they had thought Phoebe negligent at best for getting pregnant and not taking appropriate action ; they had chivvied her through the later months of her pregnancy with a mixture of indulgence and irritation , cross both that she was pregnant and that she was n't taking it seriously . |
| 13 | Since current levels of utilisation of native pastures are extremely low , being around 20–25% at best for Agrostis-Festuca and about 10–15% for blanket bog and heather-dominant communities , opportunities for improving utilisation should and indeed do exist . |
| 14 | Despite continuing fighting , UN teams managed to repair one power line and one water pipe to the city , where utility supplies have been sporadic at best for months . |
| 15 | But since " the people " are likely to be divided among themselves , the government is likely to be representative , not of all the people , but at best of a majority of them . |
| 16 | As a result , women 's issues are often seen as irrelevant , or at best of low priority , and yet tacking women 's needs is central to improving the status of the most deprived — most of whom are women . |
| 17 | Wall Street is beginning to firm up its forecasts for IBM Corp 's first quarter figures , with the consensus at around 20 cents a share and the more bearish going for 50 cents — but if Technology News of America 's straw poll of the market around the US and Europe is anywhere near right , the loss is going to be a whole lot worse than that : the returns suggest that the company will have sold at best between 25 and 30 mainframes this quarter , where the Wall Street forecasts assume it did nearer 50 machines . |
| 18 | Wall Street is beginning to firm up its forecasts for IBM Corp 's first quarter figures , with the consensus at around 20 cents a share and the more bearish going for 50 cents — but if Technology News of America 's straw poll of the market around the US and Europe is anywhere near right , the loss is going to be a whole lot worse than that : the returns suggest that the company will have sold at best between 25 and 30 mainframes this quarter , where the Wall Street forecasts assume it did nearer 50 machines . |
| 19 | Grazing , in any meaningful sense , is limited to the growing season — at best about eight months of the year . |
| 20 | There is often disagreement between spouses ; wives complain at best about lack of help and support from their husbands , at worst that their husbands make increased demands and take out their frustrations about the relative on their wives ; husbands complain that their wives are so |
| 21 | America is trillions of pounds in debt , economic growth is slow at best around the world , the massive defence industry must wake up to a new post-Cold War world and the nation 's infrastructure is in deep disrepair . |
| 22 | Dens Dark Jewel of Jagen , winning at Best in Show level ( All Breeds ) and Jagen Blue Miami Dolphin , a bitch who gained her title quite quickly . |
| 23 | Once myth was destroyed , the metaphysical drive survived at best in attenuated form in the Socratic search for knowledge ; and at worst in a religious syncretism that led only to complete triviality or exotic superstition . |
| 24 | Although Kennedy himself was interested in some sort of test ban , there was at best in Washington a tendency to regard the issue as " a bit of a sideshow " . |
| 25 | At best in a major conflict it would give allies time to reach agreement on how to use nuclear weapons . |