Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] be anything to go by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those pith-helmeted cavaliers who despatched rhinos with a single well-placed slug from an army pistol while the colonel 's daughter cowered behind the baobab had simple natures but not , if this ox was anything to go by , simple hearts . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ You come under the sign for twins , if this card is anything to go by , ’ he said , picking up the card Myra had sent . |
| 4 | If this scene was anything to go by , Kruger would have him in a cellar with the waters slowly rising . |
| 5 | If Keith Wright 's performance in this match was anything to go by , then he will certainly be glad when Jackson is back riding shotgun with him in the Hibs attack . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ If previous form is anything to go by , we 'll be here for three to four hours . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Adjectives will creep in , if my own experience is anything to go by . |
| 12 | Later , I reflected that to be in receipt of confidences of this kind , if my own experience was anything to go by , could be insufferably taxing to the patience . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | If the red sunset was anything to go by , those rocks would really have their work cut out next day to be anything less than either hot or sunny . |
| 16 | There seems to have been a generally similar scheme of attack , if similarities to the Kentish experience are anything to go by . |
| 17 | In fact , if the answers given by 40 per cent of women quizzed for a new survey are anything to go by , the EC president might as well Jacques it in … |
| 18 | Aware , as she most certainly was , that she could not be pleased to see him — grief , if past experience was anything to go by , they 'd no doubt be going for each other 's throats before the meal was half over — Leith returned to the kitchen and prepared some salad . |
| 19 | If Thai superstition is anything to go by , a concomitant expansion in the human population can be expected . |
| 20 | 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 . |