Example sentences of "bad as the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're as bad as the rest ! ’ |
| 2 | Mum was as bad as the rest . |
| 3 | The French press is not as bad as the English . |
| 4 | Leeds need no telling that they were not as bad as the scoreline suggests but that matters little with only five games to play . |
| 5 | Oh , I am as bad as the man who ravished you . ’ |
| 6 | Almost as bad as the thorn bush , Lollo said . |
| 7 | Another in the series which will help the modern reader keep things in perspective is Susan Thomas on the Bristol Riots , which shocked the nation in 1831 , caused massive destruction in the city centre , in comparison with which the St Paul 's riots ( never as bad as the press would make out ) look like a tea party . |
| 8 | Are they actually as bad as the press makes out , the flats ? |
| 9 | As bad as the CO . |
| 10 | It was almost as bad as the word ‘ hospital ’ . |
| 11 | Nicholas still denies the exchange was anything like as bad as the court supposed and although he paid £1,300 damages to the victim , h e remains adamant that an injustice was done . |
| 12 | The child 's refusal to comply may not seem as bad as the child 's habit of answering back . |
| 13 | The Chatterbox , although he is not as bad as the interrupter , is still a nuisance . |
| 14 | ‘ A fellow at work said the class system here is as bad as the caste system in India . ’ |
| 15 | Confronting and accepting the reason for the tension is often the best way of dealing with it , since if you look logically at the cause it is often not as bad as the imagination would suggest . |
| 16 | The obsession , which affects more boys than girls , can be as bad as the eating disorder anorexia , said Dr Dorothy Rowe . |
| 17 | ‘ I was reading some rubbish in The Guardian … it 's almost as bad as The Observer … ‘ he said . |
| 18 | He felt a terrible queasy emptiness in his stomach at the thought ; it was as bad as the prospect of Dyson 's going on television . |
| 19 | If the condition of the rural clergy was as bad as the book claimed , who was to speak for the government in the provinces ? |
| 20 | In reality it 's nowhere near as bad as the Scouse hype during the 80's , it 's just that we found that a bit easier to take . |
| 21 | People who write things like that make themselves as bad as the thing they attack . |