Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [art] bad [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Overall , these families frequently tend to be placed in the worst housing or on the worst estates , partly perhaps because of their inability to pay higher rents , and partly because local authorities have always been inclined to allocate poor people and slum dwellers to particular estates ( Gray , 1979 ) . |
| 2 | We have to remember in terms of timing that we started with the Gulf War and then moved into perhaps what will be seen as the worst recession since the '30s . |
| 3 | Unfortunately the same could not be said of the bad weather ruling which reared its ugly head too often . |
| 4 | This means that an action can not be founded on a bad cause . |
| 5 | And the on-going tabloid obsession with Charles and Diana 's marriage : ‘ Oh , they must be going through a bad patch . |
| 6 | Such progression may of course merely be preempted by the worse prognosis of HIV disease itself . |
| 7 | You 'll be known as a bad girl even if you 're as pure as the Prophet 's daughter . ’ |
| 8 | In a sense , greater values are at stake in the operation of aircraft , ships , and railways , because many lives are involved , more than would normally be risked by the bad driving of a motor vehicle ( although there is an important exception here in the operation of buses and coaches , which are more akin to planes , boats , and trains ) . |
| 9 | They might thus be characterised as the two Ugly Sisters who through their actions succeeded in making the British economy the Cinderella of the industrialised world — and the USA could be cast as the Bad Fairy who ensured that the Ugly Sisters always got their way . |
| 10 | Notice that the determination of such rates presupposes an understanding of what counts in a culture as ‘ deliberate ’ , and that a high rate need not necessarily be viewed as a bad thing by the culture concerned . |
| 11 | As he said himself : ‘ We do n't want to be sitting on a bad result for the next 3 ½ months . ’ |