Example sentences of "[verb] n't been [adv] bad " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Chris has n't been too bad though , his ears have been reasonable . |
| 4 | Yes touch wood , for flowers it has n't been too bad a year , so far , we have n't had very . |
| 5 | It had n't been too bad , apart from people being cold and wet and getting eaten all the time . |
| 6 | It had n't been as bad as she had feared . |
| 7 | She was upset , but later reflected it had n't been as bad as it could have been . |
| 8 | A living death , it had seemed to him and Jim , but maybe it had n't been so bad . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I have n't been too bad over the past few years but I 've certainly been left with the legacy of my habit . |