Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] is anything to go by " in BNC.
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| 1 | If German experience is anything to go by , initial public wariness will be replaced by warm approval , as residents come to appreciate the manifest advantages of living in a residential area that has been reclaimed from domination by the car . |
| 2 | ‘ You come under the sign for twins , if this card is anything to go by , ’ he said , picking up the card Myra had sent . |
| 3 | But , if sterling 's performance against the US dollar and West German mark is anything to go by , the worry of 16 per cent base rates will continue . |
| 4 | But if his reputation as one of the great Kings of French history is anything to go by , then the means he used were justified by the end , the destruction of the Angevin Empire . |
| 5 | If the Australian experience is anything to go by , the cost here to government , employers and insurance companies could soon run into millions of pounds . |
| 6 | ‘ If previous form is anything to go by , we 'll be here for three to four hours . ’ |
| 7 | That may not be too far off if the progress of the last 50 years is anything to go by . |
| 8 | If this year 's hairy , cosmically-inclined fest is anything to go by , Reading ‘ 93 will be alarmingly similar to Reading ‘ 73 , where ten-minute tom tom solos meet spliffed-up , spaced-out poses , the Glam lies down on that boggy broadway where the Salvation Army tent provides soup and a roll for ten pence and Manic Street Preachers are the punk rock of the future . |
| 9 | The evidence is that you stand as good a chance of getting the choice of currency right as the experts if the return from the managed funds is anything to go by . |
| 10 | How Bunce Court got through the war it is hard to imagine , but get through it did and with flying colours , if the testimony of former pupils is anything to go by . |
| 11 | Adjectives will creep in , if my own experience is anything to go by . |
| 12 | DROPPING your aitches is something of a crime if My Fair Lady is anything to go by , and the game that her fair ladyship the Queen was playing in last week 's Echo Memories had indeed committed that crime . |
| 13 | If the Church and secular press is anything to go by , a period of intense lobbying has begun with the various groups and interests within the Church of England backing their preferred candidates , or perhaps as significant , blacking others . |
| 14 | If Thai superstition is anything to go by , a concomitant expansion in the human population can be expected . |
| 15 | And if the successful return to our screens of Thunderbirds last year is anything to go by , then the cartoon characters will be the hottest toys on shop shelves this December . |