Example sentences of "[adv] so bad as " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the worst of it all , he often thought , ended in a place like this , then nothing was ever so bad as you pretended . |
| 2 | You will find it is n't nearly so bad as you expected ! |
| 3 | Parker smoked and drank his beer and it was not nearly so bad as he had first supposed . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | So I guess morally it did not seem quite so bad as might be inferred by the definition of the activity itself . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |