Example sentences of "have not been [adv] bad " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be sure , its performance has not been notably worse than its main rivals ' — similarly sprawling groups such as Germany 's BASF , Hoechst and Bayer , Du Pont and Dow Chemical of the US , France 's state-owned Rhone-Poulenc and Italy 's state-owned EniChem , which has been allowed to bumble along for years without worrying too much about profits . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 | The superintendent was looking relieved that the incident had not been as bad as it might have been . |
| 7 | Mr Wilkinsion said he was pleasantly surprised that the loss of traffic had not been as bad as feared . |
| 8 | Looking back at that period , the crucial difference in Conservative politicians was between those who thought that the last twenty or thirty years had not been too bad , and who were sceptical that anything better could be achieved , and those who hoped that something better could be won and saw the last quarter of a century as a slow but steady decline . |
| 9 | Until he was seven his life at home though poverty stricken had not been too bad . |
| 10 | Women from the ‘ lower classes ’ demanded an end to it all , saying ‘ 1918 had not been so bad , and things would now too surely not be so bad ’ . |
| 11 | As Gillespie remarks , even in Edinburgh , the craft unions were able to see to it that only union men worked Linotypes , and " by the end of the century , it was generally agreed that the effect of machines on employment had not been so bad as feared " . |
| 12 | It had n't been too bad , apart from people being cold and wet and getting eaten all the time . |
| 13 | It had n't been as bad as she had feared . |
| 14 | She was upset , but later reflected it had n't been as bad as it could have been . |
| 15 | A living death , it had seemed to him and Jim , but maybe it had n't been so bad . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , now , it 's not been as bad as that , ’ he said , shamefaced , and laid his arm awkwardly round her shoulders and drew her close to him . |
| 18 | It 's not been too bad , David . |
| 19 | He 's not been too bad but I tried to put him to sleep upstairs did n't I this afternoon ? |
| 20 | And it 's not been too bad in the rush hour on the er local public transport ; I 've no problems to report to you on either the buses or the trains . |
| 21 | I have n't been too bad over the past few years but I 've certainly been left with the legacy of my habit . |