Example sentences of "n't [be] [adv] bad " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had n't been too bad , apart from people being cold and wet and getting eaten all the time . |
| 2 | I have n't been too bad over the past few years but I 've certainly been left with the legacy of my habit . |
| 3 | And you know this brings another important aspect up which is very important about communications , erm you know we 've jollied along talking about what communication is making sure people know you know what you want etcetera etcetera etcetera but also do n't forget that different people can have different perceptions of the same same things but as I say here we are we sat here we done we 've done about an hour an hour and a half on written communications and yet you know when we passed the papers around it has n't been too bad but there has been different things that people have gone for both in the writing of these reports and both in the marking of them as well . |
| 4 | Chris has n't been too bad though , his ears have been reasonable . |
| 5 | Yes touch wood , for flowers it has n't been too bad a year , so far , we have n't had very . |
| 6 | A living death , it had seemed to him and Jim , but maybe it had n't been so bad . |
| 7 | This year he would n't even have the fallback option of his sister and her family , something that he always approached with a grim sense of duty and then often wound up thinking , at the end of the day , that perhaps it had n't been so bad after all . |
| 8 | Well the atmosphere is very bad indeed in Belfast because er we had this before of course twenty years ago we had various bad situations but it has n't been so bad in recent years , but this last fortnight , er we 've had U V F killings , then we had this terrible bomb by the I R A killing the protestants in the Shankhill Road . |
| 9 | It had n't been as bad as she had feared . |
| 10 | She was upset , but later reflected it had n't been as bad as it could have been . |
| 11 | ‘ It ca n't be as bad as all that . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | God be trusted , Longford and Granard would n't be as bad as that . |
| 14 | That wo n't be as bad as killing him outright . " |
| 15 | You think it ca n't be as bad as all that , and then you turn on the radio and it is . |
| 16 | ‘ It wo n't be as bad as the |
| 17 | ‘ It ca n't be as bad as all that , surely ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It probably wo n't be as bad as you think , ’ said Penry briskly , and launched into a description of the house he 'd bought on the banks of the River Wye near Builth Wells . |
| 19 | It probably would n't be too bad . |
| 20 | Trade ca n't be too bad , not for the priest nor for the prostitute . |
| 21 | It should n't be too bad at all , she said to her brother , if he was as charming as Hector had been , and more polished with it ! |
| 22 | If Jones has learned from this moderate performance the long-term problems wo n't be too bad . |
| 23 | ‘ Forty would n't be too bad , ’ she said in a sort of bright , almost hard voice I had n't heard before . |
| 24 | Perhaps it would n't be too bad . |
| 25 | Said no but you come from Essex so you ca n't be too bad . |
| 26 | You think , well there 'd be lots of time to think and read , it would n't be too bad . |
| 27 | Hysterectomy ca n't be too bad : 96% of a group of Australian women who have had the operation say they are pleased to have had it , while 55% say they wish that they had had it sooner ! |
| 28 | It seems heavy trucks use it every day , so it ca n't be too bad . ’ |
| 29 | It wo n't be too bad ; my habit is small . |
| 30 | Away to Oxford ca n't be too bad — could this be the year ? ? |