Example sentences of "n't [be] [adv] [adv] bad " in BNC.
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| 1 | WITH Venus in your sign from the 8th , life ca n't be all that bad . |
| 2 | Her first sight of a submarine had brought back the pain of Gerry 's death and she 'd had to tell herself that those in the loch were ours , so they could n't be all that bad . |
| 3 | Never to volunteer for anything , for instance ; to keep her bedspace clean and tidy ; never , ever , to forget the eleventh commandment , Thou shall not get found out ; and if you were prepared to agree that every word of King 's Regulations was Holy Writ and accepted that leave was a privilege and not a right , then life in the Navy need n't be all that bad . |
| 4 | ‘ They ca n't be all that bad , ’ said Robert . |
| 5 | Actually , I do n't think too badly of old John as any goalkeeper that wins two league championships ca n't be all that bad ( cue people listing goalies who were crap and have won more ) . |
| 6 | And if they shot her instead — well , perhaps that would n't be quite so bad . |
| 7 | , but I mean a downstairs one would n't be quite so bad |
| 8 | Yeah it wo n't be quite so I hope it wo n't be quite so bad on the M twenty five on the twenty third . |
| 9 | He wo n't be quite as bad again , but will not be much better either . |
| 10 | Actually it would n't be half so bad , if only the other members behaved normally ( i.e. paid no attention whatever to the MP who is speaking ) . |