Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [art] bad [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although she had never shown even the remotest sign of lameness I was looking at the worst case of hip dysplasia I had seen for some time . |
| 2 | After that has been discovered the temperance reformer may decide that the corkscrew was made for a bad purpose , and the communist may think the same about the cathedral . |
| 3 | The Halloween night fight at London 's Earls Court was hyped as the worst nightmare for one of the boxers . |
| 4 | Even when they knew he was going through a bad patch they would continue to deliver dangerous back-passes to him . |
| 5 | This denial was particularly important , since at the time the Thatcher administration was going through a bad period in terms of popular opinion on issues such as unemployment , social services , and housing . |
| 6 | An attitude of fatalism may be seen in typical phrases from traditional low-income black American subculture such as ‘ I 've been down so long that down do n't bother me ’ , ‘ I was born under a bad sign ’ and ‘ It 's an uphill climb to the bottom ’ . |
| 7 | He knew now why Aeroflot was known as the worst airline in the world . |
| 8 | Thus the scene was set for the worst disaster in the history of the British Army . |
| 9 | It was suffering from a bad wound on its hip , and it had either lost or been abandoned by its mother . |
| 10 | Stella could n't tell whether she was acting or not — she looked dreadful , as if she was suffering from the worst sort of headache , and yet she kept watching herself in the glass , turning her face this way and that , peering forward to follow the track of a tear rolling down her cheek . |
| 11 | Paul Jordan from Kidlington in Oxfordshire was suffering the first pains of a heart attack , when his GP told him the agony was caused by a bad bed . |
| 12 | In Kharkov and Poltava lack of fuel was cited as the worst problem of all . |
| 13 | Some 200,000 members were expected to lose most of their savings in what was described as the worst collapse of a deposit-taking institution in Australia since 1990 . |