Example sentences of "[adv] so bad as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even then , it is not so bad as to give you taxi syndrome . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The punishment was hard because Maggie would miss her visit , but it was not so bad as losing some of her pay . |
| 5 | ‘ Though they may cheat each other , it is not so bad as in the city . ’ |
| 6 | The general consensus seemed to be that ‘ Yes , there is a problem but probably not so bad as some people have suggested . |
| 7 | Entering the train was not so bad as entering the eastbound one would have been . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Not so bad as it was then in those days . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Tucker again ; Exeter , 4 January : Come if you can but it 's not so bad as it seemed . ’ |
| 12 | Yeah well that 's not so bad as long as you can get her down at a reasonable hour and get to sleep . |
| 13 | If the worst of it all , he often thought , ended in a place like this , then nothing was ever so bad as you pretended . |
| 14 | You will find it is n't nearly so bad as you expected ! |
| 15 | Parker smoked and drank his beer and it was not nearly so bad as he had first supposed . |
| 16 | Well i i it was n't so bad as where I er as when I went . |
| 17 | But it is n't so bad as it sounds , really it is n't . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | So I guess morally it did not seem quite so bad as might be inferred by the definition of the activity itself . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . ’ |