Example sentences of "bad as it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 He had her foot in his hand before she could stop him and his indrawn breath made her aware that it looked as bad as it felt .
2 Did it sound as bad as it felt ? ’
3 ‘ Tucker again ; Exeter , 4 January : Come if you can but it 's not so bad as it seemed . ’
4 But perhaps it was n't as bad as it looked , and in any case one could n't go on sitting here , being stared at by the whole of St Petrock's-on-Sea while Chignell waved smelling salts under one 's nose .
5 The contour lines on the map were remarkably close together for the final descent but we decided it could n't be as bad as it looked .
6 ‘ It was n't as bad as it looked , ’ Sacco said .
7 It was , I did n't erm believe that the picture of constraint that was painted in appendix two was quite as bad as it looked .
8 ‘ Not as bad as it looked on first assessment .
9 things went from bad to worse then as United defender Colin Andreson got sent off … for a challenge that was late but not as bad as it looked … ref had different thoughts
10 things went from bad to worse then as United defender Colin Andreson got sent off … for a challenge that was late but not as bad as it looked … ref had different thoughts
11 Still , it did n't smell as bad as it sounded .
12 If so was it as bad as it sounded on the radio ?
13 That is not as bad as it sounds .
14 In engineering , cellulose is never used in the completely dry condition so that the range of strength and stiffness is not quite as bad as it sounds .
15 What happened , what , it 's not as bad as it sounds , it 'll .
16 But it is n't so bad as it sounds , really it is n't .
17 But is it as bad as it sounds ?
18 The balance-of-payments deficit is not as bad as it looks , partly because it stems from private sector choices rather than public sector profligacy , and is thus inherently less inflationary as individuals can not resort to the printing press to ease the burden of their debt ; and partly because much of it may be imaginary , since the figures omit the ‘ balancing item ’ of unrecorded net receipts from overseas assets .
19 But the news is n't as bad as it looks .
20 However it is n't quite as bad as it looks because the amount that you will have paid in will only feel like £4,520 .
21 But it is not as bad as it seems , and it is fairly typical for any dozen books selected at random .
22 The ascent from here to the summit looks fairly fearsome but it is not as bad as it seems .
23 This is n't as bad as it seems ; switching a PC on and off does it more harm than leaving it powered up .
24 Month after month , as the British economy has languished in a deep and damaging recession , the only reaction from a puzzled and beleaguered Government is the claim that it is not as bad as it seems and that good times are round the corner .
25 Its not actually as bad as it seems .
26 There 's a lot of erm , conflicting ideas about using Abbey 's rate book and , and you might look very confusing in itself , but actually it 's not half so bad as it seems .
27 It does n't taste as bad as it smells .
28 I mean today I 'm not gon na open me shopping on the bus but I mean it 's not nearly as bad as it has been
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