Example sentences of "have [be] [adv] bad " in BNC.
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| 1 | The performance of the AGR series has been even worse . |
| 2 | Ronny replaces Swindon-striker Fjortoft for the game tonight — Ronny must have done well in the training sessions ( coach Olsen really put some value on how the players perform in training before the games ) and Fjortoft which has been even worse for Swindon than Deano for us might have a hard time to get the attacker place back ( Fjortoft 0 — Deano 3 — Cole 10 is n't it ? ) . |
| 3 | I think that attitude has been very bad for the industry as a whole . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He makes a face like a little boy who has been very bad . |
| 6 | ‘ The recession has been very bad for our customers . |
| 7 | And there has been more bad news for employment in Oxfordshire : |
| 8 | ‘ It 's become clear that the crop failure there has been far worse than we realised . ’ . |
| 9 | The thinning of the ozone layer over Antarctica has been far worse than expected this year . |
| 10 | But trade has been so bad that organisers have had to shed at least half their shop staff . |
| 11 | This problem has been so bad that the company has returned to temporarily producing its old-style model to bridge the gap . |
| 12 | But this cold has been so bad today . |
| 13 | And although I knew by then that I was wretchedly unhappy in comparison with other girls of my age , this was still what I wanted to do , because however joyless and painful the present might be , the future could have been even worse . |
| 14 | And the Government 's disastrous economic figures would have been even worse but for millions of pounds income from North Sea oil and gas . |
| 15 | It must have been even worse outside ! |
| 16 | It might have been even worse if one of these fairly common replies had been given : " Because it gives people a nice cosy feeling that there 's a home somewhere " or , " Do n't know . |
| 17 | It must have been pretty bad , for Mrs Whitfield to change like this . |
| 18 | ‘ It must have been pretty bad ; you were shouting and screaming the place down ! ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Egg theft would have been far worse had it not been for round-the-clock protection from the army at the end of the season . |
| 21 | I wondered how these men had managed to endure thirty or more trips in what must have been far worse conditions than this ; in bad weather , being shot at , having to concentrate on map reading and peering through bomb sites , and watching out all the time for enemy fighters . |
| 22 | The emergence of a popular culture confirmed many fears and yet there was some compensation in the fact that things might have been far worse . |
| 23 | It is strange to consider that were it not for the intervention of Conservative industrialists , the proposals in this Bill could have been far worse . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I feel that though I 'd been dawdling it would n't have been so bad . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | If she 'd confessed at the beginning it would n't have been so bad , but how could she tell them now ? |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ It would n't have been so bad , ’ Souness remembered , ‘ but for the fact that one of our assailants was wielding a sword . |