Example sentences of "good as [pers pn] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought the shows were often not as good as they could have been . ’ |
| 2 | But if the pageboy William is talking , making noises , or turning paper napkins into darts , you could say , ‘ All the children have been as good as they could be , even little William ! ’ |
| 3 | ‘ We have not been as good as we could have been in producing statistically valid trials . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ We have not been as good as we could be in doing statistically valid trials ’ |
| 5 | Having released two singles — ‘ June ’ — and ‘ Childhood Revisited ’ — in the late eighties on an independent label — Ashanti recorded a demo containing a song called ‘ Real World ’ , which was despatched to Polygram and , according to Boyd , ‘ within 20 minutes they were prepared to make us an offer which , at the time , was as good as we could get . |
| 6 | They were as good as we could make them , we felt , and we had a long think . |
| 7 | ‘ Results were as good as we could have hoped for given the difficult economic background throughout the year , ’ he said . |
| 8 | A lack of isobars however was not necessarily good as it could indicate an area of high pressure , and in winter this usually meant fog . |
| 9 | There is no doubt that performance can be improved in many cases , but the fundamental question has to be asked whether such foliar feeding or boosting is merely making up and filling a gap left by normal cultivation that is not as good as it could be . |
| 10 | about how stuffy it is , and the like when we agreed that is was erm not as good as it could be , may I just say erm , but we have n't got any , if you like , er statistical measurement , and one of the actual points that were starting to do now is we 're actually going to start reporting tu , temperature and humidity on the first , second , and third floors within G P House . |
| 11 | ‘ We all had a good view of you , yesterday , ’ said Ron , ‘ but not as good as it could be . ’ |
| 12 | We all know that there 's a fundamental divide within the Conservative party which no amount of packaging can camouflage , although the packing last time round perhaps er was n't quite as good as it could have been . |
| 13 | His job is to look after us both as regards our work at the Institute as well as on recreational trips , and he does his best , although his English is perhaps not as good as it could be ( at least he sometimes does n't seem to understand what we say ) . |
| 14 | Now we do n't have huge , we we .. we 've turned down our thing so that we do n't get the kitchen sink , which is also off the mains , brrrr splattering everywhere , so that could explain why mine is n't as good as it could be , yes you 're right . |
| 15 | He wanted me to look as good as I could . |
| 16 | So I had to make the speech best as I could and it went down all right I think . |