Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv] bad " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that attitude has been very bad for the industry as a whole . |
| 2 | When my rheumatoid arthritis was very bad it has been very bad and very chronic , and it still can be some days , erm I had more ways of getting up and down those stairs and I got up and down , but I had to invent ways to do it . |
| 3 | He makes a face like a little boy who has been very bad . |
| 4 | ‘ The recession has been very bad for our customers . |
| 5 | And there has been more bad news for employment in Oxfordshire : |
| 6 | But trade has been so bad that organisers have had to shed at least half their shop staff . |
| 7 | This problem has been so bad that the company has returned to temporarily producing its old-style model to bridge the gap . |
| 8 | But this cold has been so bad today . |
| 9 | It must have been pretty bad , for Mrs Whitfield to change like this . |
| 10 | ‘ It must have been pretty bad ; you were shouting and screaming the place down ! ’ |
| 11 | She did n't quite , but what she did understand was that she hated this woman , and the thought momentarily came to her that that man would n't surely have been as bad as this mean-faced nun . |
| 12 | I think it would n't have been so bad if he had n't swore at me so much , that was worse than hitting me . |
| 13 | And it would n't have been so bad il the owner had been anybody else but Mrs Rumney ; I found that even discussing the thing with her had become almost unbearable . |
| 14 | I feel that though I 'd been dawdling it would n't have been so bad . |
| 15 | It would n't have been so bad if the two girls in the flat upstairs were at home , but they would n't be back until the end of the week . |
| 16 | If she 'd confessed at the beginning it would n't have been so bad , but how could she tell them now ? |
| 17 | It would n't have been so bad , of course , if it had only been him , but there was that second-year nurse whom she had accused of loitering with him in the corridor — that was going to take some fancy footwork to get out of without loss of face . |
| 18 | ‘ It would n't have been so bad , ’ Souness remembered , ‘ but for the fact that one of our assailants was wielding a sword . |
| 19 | Er it would n't have been so bad you know because we when we set out first it was just you know to be successful at home and then we were successful over here and that was you know was the serious big surprise . |
| 20 | Er had had such a record , I mean if he 'd smashed just er a lampshade or something like that it would n't have been so bad , but to actually get rid of a third of all the crockery in one fell sloop was er well it was fairly excessive . |
| 21 | The other affected blindness and certainly had something wrong with his eyes , though half the population of Egypt suffered from ophthalmia and the eyes could n't have been too bad since he relied on them every day . |
| 22 | Actually , it could n't have been too bad , as we met the girl , and she is determined to stay in China to the end of the contract , in spite of what happened . |
| 23 | I had kept all the abuse that had been happening to me very much to myself — it seemed to me that I must have been very bad . |
| 24 | He says : ‘ It would have been very bad to perform at a butcher 's wedding . ’ |
| 25 | It must have been awful bad in the hens |
| 26 | I do n't think Place can have been all bad , even if he did kill someone . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ So you see , Anna — he could n't have been all bad , ’ Merrill reminded her . |
| 28 | In general the years from 1793 to 1815 do not seem to have been particularly bad in real-wage experience for the Cornish miners , though they suffered like others from the famine price levels of 1795 , 1801 and 1812 , in each of which crises they rioted . |
| 29 | At one stage , in her early fifties , the depression had been so bad that she had been admitted to hospital . |
| 30 | He had been amazed when Sutton rang to say he had become editor , especially as the British Telecom line had been so bad that he had misheard and thought Sutton had taken over at Today . |