Example sentences of "[adj] experience be 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 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 .
3 Adjectives will creep in , if my own experience is anything to go by .
4 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 .
5 There seems to have been a generally similar scheme of attack , if similarities to the Kentish experience are anything to go by .
6 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 .
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