Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [art] bad " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But is n't it the case , ’ I ask him , ‘ that while people are piling into the cinemas to see the worst exports of Hollywood , they are also piling in to see our own films , such as Alan Parker 's The Commitments , which has after all just won the Bafta award for best film . ’ |
| 2 | The heavy clutch and cumbersome gear change remain the worst feature . |
| 3 | Though cholesterol has a bad reputation , a raised level of cholesterol in the blood being one of the risk factors associated with heart disease , it is actually an essential component of the body . |
| 4 | But until the moment he scored the equalising goal , the article claimed , ‘ if someone had held a referendum to find the worst player on the field , Gascoigne would have deserved a large chunk of the votes — or maybe all of them . ’ |
| 5 | McNaught-Mandli has the worst possible start number for the first leg of the cup , which is against the clock from the start , for she is drawn to go first of 46 competitors from 13 countries . |
| 6 | Arriving , triumphant , in Ulm in the late afternoon , I had within half an hour found the worst hotel I had been in in years , with the modest staff and a parking ticket to boot . |
| 7 | Middlesbrough has the worst accident statistics of Cleveland 's four boroughs . |
| 8 | DALLAS lawyer Bryan Garner has started a contest to find the worst examples of legal writing in Texas . |
| 9 | In the south midlands , Northamptonshire has the worst problem . |
| 10 | Mr Edgar caught a bad cold , which seemed to get worse and worse . |
| 11 | With just 15% of the vote Labour came a bad third at the last election , but a recent opinion poll , commissioned by the Liberal Democrats , revealed a surge in support for Mr Kent at the expense of Sir William — narrowing the gap between the two parties from 22% to 7% . |
| 12 | Scientists at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh are using biotechnology to produce a protein in large quantities which can ‘ filter ’ the blood of AIDS patients and remove the agent causing the worst symptoms . |
| 13 | Last year the Yorkshire Water Authority tentatively began the first stage of a £150 million programme to eliminate the worst coloured waters from such towns as Huddersfield , Halifax , Bradford and Sheffield . |
| 14 | The machine tool industry meets the worst of the problem , as it is at the end of the manufacturing cycle and can not respond quickly either in recession or in a boom , because of the long lead-times involved in production and delivery . |
| 15 | Where the future can not usefully be predicted , it makes sense for policymakers to assume the worse and plan for heavy demands on services by the very old . |
| 16 | By the simple device of warning his readers to expect the worst , de Pomiane gets his message across . |
| 17 | It can not be assumed that in all cultures and historical epochs the expression of disparaging remarks about other peoples creates a bad impression . |
| 18 | Manager Edward Stein fears the worst after Barnet 's company secretary Stanley Beller warned him the club would be put into liquidation inside 24 hours unless ‘ things are sorted out . ’ |
| 19 | Once the horse has been hurt , especially if the horse has been hurt more than once , the horse forms the bad habit in response to its fear of pain , and removing the pain does not remove the fear of pain . |
| 20 | The most violent of the revolts and the most serious disorders have occurred in places where tyrants perpetrated the worst outrages . |
| 21 | A good proportion of our work concerned our availability to act as an unacknowledged arm of the social welfare service to drug users in crisis situations , providing a front-line service for the ‘ speed freaks who 's OD 'd on the results of a bent script ’ , or the ‘ acid heads having a bad trip ’ , for we were in the streets , the pubs , the clubs , the crash pads , and communal houses frequented by the new ‘ alternative society ’ . |
| 22 | Is not aircraft noise the worst form of air pollution in London ? |
| 23 | At worst , they are a facade hiding the worst excesses of management . |
| 24 | Middlesbrough fans feared the worst when central defender Nicky Mohan was sent off for a second bookable offence . |
| 25 | Parker daubed his eye ( the blood appeared no worse , but a steady , it must be an annoying , trickle ) with the tail of his shirt . |
| 26 | She comes into the room like a shy actress making a bad entrance , to find us poised round the door like actors on the set . |
| 27 | It has been common practice to anticipate the worst load conditions in setting the count required to generate the RETARD signal . |
| 28 | The change was due to the greater proportion of patients with colonic disease , which in this study had a worse prognosis . |
| 29 | The press apparently had expected Steffi 's invincible reign to last for several years — when last year Graf had a bad year ( by her standards ) the men and women of the press understandably searched for reasons for it — and voiced them . |
| 30 | Its activities led to the British Film Weeks of 1924 , which involved screening a programme of British pictures , accompanied by the sort of ballyhoo which left the public , according to critic Paul Rotha , ‘ hypnotized into readiness to applaud the worst picture in the world because it was British . ’ |