Example sentences of "so bad as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | Parker smoked and drank his beer and it was not nearly so bad as he had first supposed . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Not so bad as it was then in those days . |
5 | ‘ Tucker again ; Exeter , 4 January : Come if you can but it 's not so bad as it seemed . ’ |
6 | 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 . |
7 | But it is n't so bad as it sounds , really it is n't . |
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 | You will find it is n't nearly so bad as you expected ! |
10 | so bad as she grew older . |