Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] be [pron] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The room would be packed shoulder-to-shoulder and the show , if previous years were anything to go by , would probably be okay . |
| 6 | ‘ If previous form is anything to go by , we 'll be here for three to four hours . ’ |
| 7 | If we go only by the legislation and other portents , then the outlook is overcast at present and we are not sure how it will clear ; if commitment and current initiatives are anything to go by , then the prospects are brighter . |
| 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 | Because he was n't just the same hard , tough personality that he always had been : he was now far more dangerous — certainly if her present fragile emotions were anything to go by . |
| 11 | But if his practical measures are anything to go by , he may be thinking of the Libyan nation , for he discourages international marriage not only with English or American persons , but with Algerians , Egyptians and Palestinians . |
| 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 | France is now facing its second period of cohabitation between a right-wing government and a socialist president , and if the statements of the conservative leaders are anything to go by , it is likely to be tougher than it was last time . |
| 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 | THE day of the indie guitar band dominating local music appears to be on the wane , if recent developments are anything to go by . |
| 18 | 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 … |
| 19 | If recent events are anything to go by , one forum for this ‘ dialogue ’ will be the courts of law . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Mehdi Moghadassi If past performances are anything to go by , this should be quite a disturbing work . |
| 22 | If Thai superstition is anything to go by , a concomitant expansion in the human population can be expected . |