Example sentences of "have not [be] [adv] bad " in BNC.
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| 1 | The superintendent was looking relieved that the incident had not been as bad as it might have been . |
| 2 | Mr Wilkinsion said he was pleasantly surprised that the loss of traffic had not been as bad as feared . |
| 3 | Looking back at that period , the crucial difference in Conservative politicians was between those who thought that the last twenty or thirty years had not been too bad , and who were sceptical that anything better could be achieved , and those who hoped that something better could be won and saw the last quarter of a century as a slow but steady decline . |
| 4 | Until he was seven his life at home though poverty stricken had not been too bad . |
| 5 | Women from the ‘ lower classes ’ demanded an end to it all , saying ‘ 1918 had not been so bad , and things would now too surely not be so bad ’ . |
| 6 | As Gillespie remarks , even in Edinburgh , the craft unions were able to see to it that only union men worked Linotypes , and " by the end of the century , it was generally agreed that the effect of machines on employment had not been so bad as feared " . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , now , it 's not been as bad as that , ’ he said , shamefaced , and laid his arm awkwardly round her shoulders and drew her close to him . |
| 8 | It 's not been too bad , David . |
| 9 | He 's not been too bad but I tried to put him to sleep upstairs did n't I this afternoon ? |
| 10 | And it 's not been too bad in the rush hour on the er local public transport ; I 've no problems to report to you on either the buses or the trains . |