Example sentences of "badly as " in BNC.
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1 | Eliot by writing as badly as he knew how … . ’ ) |
2 | But the stories have a universal appeal simply as stories , and it is good that the underlying programme seldom obtrudes as badly as in the gift-shop passage above , where the helpful aside about tourism affecting rural culture worldwide strikes a primary-school note . |
3 | The Kiwi tour continues at Wigan , where after the Oldham upset , the home side need a confidence booster almost as badly as the visitors , whose efforts so far have been disjointed . |
4 | Bottom-placed Barrow came from 14-0 down after 10 minutes to level 24-24 at Bradford but finished as badly as they had started , leaking a further 12 points in the final 14 minutes . |
5 | The initial deleterious effects of cost accounting struck the press as badly as they upset the railways , education , local Soviet administration , and trade . |
6 | If he played golf as badly as that he 'd pack it in . |
7 | The hall and the gallery and the enormous stained glass windows which faced the door as you came in , and the three reception rooms were ours , and as I suffer from terrible claustrophobia , I thought it was a wonderful place to live although David , who I am sure does n't suffer from claustrophobia as badly as I do , being British and like most British people , would be content to live in smaller environments . |
8 | The trouble is that his men have done just as badly as the old guard . |
9 | So widows in large houses ( who always feature prominently in arguments about property taxes ) will not do as badly as under the rates . |
10 | Sometimes 1 would try to withhold my gift of words as the only way I could convey to him that he was withholding something I needed as badly as he needed my poetic ability . |
11 | All in all it was not turning out as badly as he had feared . |
12 | His plan had misfired as badly as mine . |
13 | When the government decreed that student numbers should be cut , that university grants be cut , and that overseas students should pay their full fees for courses and board in the UK , LSHTM with its large overseas intake suffered initially only as badly as other London colleges . |
14 | You also ca n't help noticing that attempts to drag the Royal Family into the 20th Century have failed as badly as attempts to do the same for this other great British anachronism . |
15 | Twice fought over , she has suffered as badly as any country in the world . |
16 | ‘ I know I can direct just as badly as the people who made all those clinkers with me , ’ he joked . |
17 | ‘ And although I do n't think I 've played as badly as people have said , I think I can get more out of myself , and more out of others around me , if I play in a midfield alongside Gazza . ’ |
18 | How sad to see our old people not just robbed but beaten up so badly as well . |
19 | He joked to Philippa that he might react as badly as the sting victim on the TV show two weeks earlier . |
20 | The recession has hit the Church Commissioners as badly as everyone else . |
21 | So do n't write off the ‘ old country ’ yet Amanda it is n't doing as badly as it thinks . |
22 | In present everyday usage the phrase could be understood to mean quite simply that capital , or more precisely , the people disposing of it , treats labour , or more precisely , the people employed , so badly as to create resentment . |
23 | Since Ralph de Faye was a member of the house of the Viscounts of Cha tellerault this means that with the one exception of the Viscount of Thouars — who had earlier suffered badly as the result of a quarrel with Eleanor — she had been joined by all the leading barons of Poitou and the Angoumois . |
24 | The Conservatives would not always win under the electoral system of 1918 , but they would rarely do so badly as to allow anyone else to win . |
25 | In constituencies they fared as badly as their West German counterparts , and nationally even worse , winning overall only 0.4% of the votes . |
26 | IBM files performed better the larger the bucket capacity , while ICL files performed better the smaller the bucket capacity ; very roughly , the six-record buckets were equivalent , while IBM two-record buckets performed as badly as the ICL fourteen-record buckets . |
27 | ‘ Obviously not as badly as you did . ’ |
28 | Not too badly as yet , but the indications were there : bright eyes and heightened vivacity when he arrived , and a mild but spun-out dreariness when he went . |
29 | Moreover , the shock of the 1929 Wall Street crash and the ensuing economic depression ( which hit the primary-producing nations of Latin America particularly badly as the industrialised countries slashed imports ) had two correlated effects . |
30 | I have never seen a King dressed as badly as you were ! |