Example sentences of "good as we [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's the flaw in Red Wedge — their chiding logic of pragmatism ( ‘ as good as we 'll get … let's face facts ’ ) is in fundamental antagonism to pop 's intolerant utopianism . |
| 2 | In the past , whenever he has erred on the side of too much order , the judgment inside the Soviet Union and outside has been that ‘ Gorbachev is as good as we 'll get ’ . |
| 3 | They were as good as we could make them , we felt , and we had a long think . |
| 4 | ‘ We have not been as good as we could have been in producing statistically valid trials . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Results were as good as we could have hoped for given the difficult economic background throughout the year , ’ he said . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It 's not as good as we can do in England , but it 's the Inspiral attitude : we wo n't make any profit because we 're bringing a boatload of gear over , but everyone will remember it . ’ |
| 8 | As long as the limitations are recognised and understood and those who allocate are seen to be acting fairly and using socially accepted criteria such as equity and efficiency , the use of rough , though conceptually sound , mechanisms ( for example , the original RAWP formula ) is most probably as good as we can get . |