Example sentences of "quite [adv] bad as " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | So I guess morally it did not seem quite so bad as might be inferred by the definition of the activity itself . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Indeed , he told himself as he walked briskly across the courtyard toward the covered way that led past Pathology and Pharmacy to the rear of the hospital and his own unit , it was not quite as bad as it might have been , taking it all around . |
| 5 | Although , ’ she added , ‘ not usually quite as bad as this . |
| 6 | Not quite as bad as I have seen on our modern commuter stations , but we were jam packed and could not be parted from our scant luggage . |
| 7 | There is nothing quite as bad as watching other people eat and drink what you are trying to avoid . |
| 8 | In engineering , cellulose is never used in the completely dry condition so that the range of strength and stiffness is not quite as bad as it sounds . |
| 9 | The Turks were not quite as bad as many hostile western historians have painted them . |
| 10 | We shall just have to pretend it 's not there , there 's not , there 's not quite as bad as when I had to speak for Amnesty on Radio Essex last year and it was live , as every word , every word I spoke was being you know being heard by a lot of people and that 's , that was very , that was very intimidating . |
| 11 | It overtook me , but it was n't quite as bad as before . |
| 12 | ‘ I know I look a complete wreck , ’ answered Felicity Suvarov with a mischievous gleam in her remarkable eyes , ‘ but I do n't feel quite as bad as I look . ’ |
| 13 | No it was n't quite as bad as that , Ray er what do you call it had already done it . |
| 14 | However it is n't quite as bad as it looks because the amount that you will have paid in will only feel like £4,520 . |
| 15 | ‘ Not quite as bad as that , Taggy ! ’ |
| 16 | It was , I did n't erm believe that the picture of constraint that was painted in appendix two was quite as bad as it looked . |
| 17 | erm and realise that no you do n't sound quite as bad as you think you might . |
| 18 | I 'll quickly rattle through the next one effectively nothing more has happened at Napier , they went off for their Christmas holidays about the fourth of November and came back about the nineteenth of January er , not quite as bad as that but nearly as I mean they 've even longer holidays than we 've got and we get a fortnight at Christmas and New Year |
| 19 | erm we I mean we , we , we 've looked at the , the peasant tenant relationship erm and my , my opinion is that basically you know it was n't quite as bad as everyone 's made out erm but al okay we 're saying that warlords were , were very imperialistic and they were a huge fact to be considered but in Hunan and within the south erm eastern region say |
| 20 | I have n't , mine 's not quite as bad as that but er he was wrong I think . |
| 21 | Well , you and I , you and I , have both come across people , not quite as bad as that . |