Example sentences of "be so bad as " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 " . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Nothing is so bad as having to imagine . ’ |
| 5 | 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 … |
| 6 | 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 ) . |