Example sentences of "have not been so 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 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 ’ .
3 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 " .
4 A living death , it had seemed to him and Jim , but maybe it had n't been so bad .
5 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 .
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