Example sentences of "[verb] not be kind to " in BNC.

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1 The weather has not been kind to the river in recent weeks and today is no exception .
2 Time has not been kind to this view either .
3 The 20C has not been kind to the Jews and the community in Prague has never recovered from its suffering at the hands of the Nazis .
4 Dave Berrow , who has had committments to his Browing Starlets side which has cost him the chance to fish some possible points earning events , admits that the draw bag has n't been kind to him for quite a while .
5 NEW YORK has n't been kind to Nigel Kennedy ; critics are suspicious of his taste for rock , jazz and a large audience .
6 The season has n't been kind to Somerset 's Ricky Bartlett .
7 The years had not been kind to Robert Dexter .
8 I have not been kind to my back ; I had accidents when I was a boy , tree-climbing and biking , and I have spent many years skiing .
9 The 1980s have not been kind to Bolivia — and especially not to its devastated tin-mining communities .
10 The last ten years have not been kind to him .
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