Example sentences of "[adv] bad as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The snow is much worse as I finally move out , and the only consolation for the time it has taken is being alone , and arriving late so that the others have already begun on the tent and wood collecting . |
| 2 | ‘ It gets much worse as they get older , ’ they warn darkly . |
| 3 | In fact it became much worse as Diana would make herself sick four , sometimes five times a day . |
| 4 | Even then , it is not so bad as to give you taxi syndrome . |
| 5 | Nothing is so bad as having to imagine . ’ |
| 6 | Czechoslovakia is better off than the other East European nations and has committed 2 per cent of its investment to environmental projects , but there once again are to be found the same dreary environmental statistics of rivers poisoned , sewage untreated , sulphur dioxide deposited and trees dying , even if the figures are not quite so bad as elsewhere . |
| 7 | The House of Lords held that it did not : since the essence of dangerous driving was negligence , a driver should only be convicted of manslaughter if his driving was so bad as to amount to the gross negligence required under the third head of involuntary manslaughter ( see below ) . |
| 8 | If the worst of it all , he often thought , ended in a place like this , then nothing was ever so bad as you pretended . |
| 9 | In Poems and Versions ( Carcanet , £6.95 ) David Wright 's contribution to this sub-genre is so bad as to be fascinating : I turn the leaves of memory To see you , prince of Rathbone Place , In blackout years , defying with Magnanimous and careless spirit … |
| 10 | Both defecting ( refusing to pull ticks off ) is pretty bad , but not so bad as putting effort into pulling another 's ticks off and still ending up infested with ticks oneself . |
| 11 | The first part , on the promenade , was not so bad as the last lap up into the town centre where all the local talent was collected round the cinema and amusement arcade or merely loafing about the pavement . |
| 12 | You will find it is n't nearly so bad as you expected ! |
| 13 | Parker smoked and drank his beer and it was not nearly so bad as he had first supposed . |
| 14 | The punishment was hard because Maggie would miss her visit , but it was not so bad as losing some of her pay . |
| 15 | ‘ Though they may cheat each other , it is not so bad as in the city . ’ |
| 16 | He 'd faced foxes , he 'd helped to drive the Truck , he 'd flown on a goose — but none of them was half so bad as letting a human being actually touch him . |
| 17 | So I guess morally it did not seem quite so bad as might be inferred by the definition of the activity itself . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ One faces a decision , I guess , at such times , about how far to go with company instructions , and since the spirit of such meetings only appeared to be correcting a horrible price level situation , that there was not an attempt to damage customers , charge excessive prices , there was no personal gain in it for me , the company did not seem actually to be defrauding … morally it did not seem quite so bad as might be inferred by the definition of the activity itself . ’ |
| 19 | The general consensus seemed to be that ‘ Yes , there is a problem but probably not so bad as some people have suggested . |
| 20 | Entering the train was not so bad as entering the eastbound one would have been . |
| 21 | I tried to persuade him that things could n't be so bad as the French paper made out or he would have been wired for . |
| 22 | 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 " . |
| 23 | With the soft detergents now in use , this trouble is not so bad as it was a few years ago , but appreciable quantities still get into some rivers , even though the bulk is removed in sewage-purification treatment . |
| 24 | Yet for many years gerontologists , in the many disciplines that make up gerontology , have been arguing that the gloom is overstressed , that future prospects need not be so bad as is often suggested . |
| 25 | And suppose he can obtain his desire , is that so bad as cutting her throat ? |
| 26 | Not so bad as it was then in those days . |
| 27 | Well i i it was n't so bad as where I er as when I went . |
| 28 | In retrospect , wrote Ali in Street Fighting Years , ‘ it was not so bad as we thought ’ , but it ended up in the incinerator , rather than on the streets . |
| 29 | ‘ Tucker again ; Exeter , 4 January : Come if you can but it 's not so bad as it seemed . ’ |
| 30 | There 's a lot of erm , conflicting ideas about using Abbey 's rate book and , and you might look very confusing in itself , but actually it 's not half so bad as it seems . |