Example sentences of "[adv] good [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously , there is some truth in the old maxim that " you get what you pay for " , but as in many other areas of life , price and value are not always synonymous , and you should be very wary of accepting without questions that something is necessarily better because it costs more . |
| 2 | Mick was less fortunate , and when I awoke in the depressing gloom of dawn , he reported that the weather was very much better than it had been for a long time . |
| 3 | And as you may be aware that er in , in , in in the local elections this year , in May , the Conservative Party did dramatically well , much better than it did in the general election yeah ? |
| 4 | ‘ Demand was so good that it expanded from there , and George was happy to act as consultant , in return for being given some ground space at Ramsey to grow on Bonsai — his current passion . ’ |
| 5 | Gabriel put his flat trumpet to his lips and pretended to blow — and , underneath the cart , a shawm blew a nasal fanfare : the timing was so good that it startled even Gabriel . |
| 6 | Food never tastes so good as it does after a long day 's hike . |
| 7 | In Wilson 's eyes the condition of the British seaman was scarcely better than it had been half a century earlier . |
| 8 | It 's just good that it looks like we 're winning . |
| 9 | It did Thom himself little good but it exacerbated the inarticulate anger of other officers at the pettiness of the regulations in the face of the array of temptations . |
| 10 | Visibility on the water was slightly better than it had been on land — there were no hummocks , and somehow night never seems quite so dark at sea as on land . |
| 11 | Slightly better than it had been previously . |
| 12 | I mean we did n't know this , well Mark knew , but I did n't know and there was some as Germans and some as English forces it was really good and it got erm the D J got all the old records and all that really was a good night ! |
| 13 | I enjoyed the gnocchi in a friendly watering hole along the road , however , and the Elban wine was just as good as it had been 30 years ago . |
| 14 | But having rejected a compromise which , for boxing , was about as good as it gets , he ca n't continue claiming innocence if it leads to the heavyweight division again disintegrating into chaos . |
| 15 | Todd was 75th on Tour in driving distance , and that 's about as good as it gets . |
| 16 | Right , that 's as good as it gets I 'm afraid . |
| 17 | The game looks as good as it plays too . |
| 18 | This one from Panasonic looks as good as it sounds . |
| 19 | AS GOOD as it got for the deranged Los Angeles combo . |
| 20 | Each dish came beautifully presented and tasted just as good as it looked . |
| 21 | Her appetite restored , she dug into the salad , finding it every bit as good as it looked . |
| 22 | Capitalism is not as good as it claims . |
| 23 | When you plan a display , include scented flowers , either shop-bought or home-grown , so that your arrangement smells as good as it looks . |
| 24 | It tastes as good as it looks , too — a rich , moist fruit cake , full of all kinds of mouth-watering goodies like currants , sultanas and cherries and almonds , and generously laced with Grand Marnier to give it even more flavour . |
| 25 | All too often , low-price guitars which look good are severely let down by their tone , but the Mad Axe sounds as good as it looks . |
| 26 | The South Bank Show is as good as it has ever been — serious , humane and unstuffy — though its theme tune now sounds is beginning to sound jolly dated . |
| 27 | Under recreation Noel Ernest Ackroyd Moore lists ‘ pricing books for the local Oxfam shop ’ ; Natalie Wheen ‘ windsurfing , women 's issues , whisky , laughter , anarchy ’ ; Joanna Trollope ‘ very long baths ’ ; Anthony Wright ‘ attempting to make coffee that tastes as good as it smells ’ . |
| 28 | A spiritual void needs to be satisfied , so what is offered as serious and sacrosanct must be as good as it pretends . |
| 29 | PRINCE 'S new £50 million record contract is not as good as it seems . |
| 30 | It becomes I I do touch on this at one point in my submission , it becomes even better if it has links . |