Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [art] bad " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has the worst reputation of any ‘ creepy-crawly ’ in the public imagination , and yet its bite , which is extremely rare , is no worse than a bee sting . |
| 2 | He said Daphne even though she is married now I am willing to forget the bad talks that were going around about him being foolish and wanting her back . |
| 3 | The government was not prepared to invite the bad publicity that would be generated by starting deportations during the Christmas period , he added . |
| 4 | This sets a bad example to teenagers , many of whom are overweight and eat too much junk food . |
| 5 | The sad fact is , however , that in Britain the old have the worst housing of any group . |
| 6 | As I explained in the previous chapter , there is no export zone anywhere that has a good record on linkages , but few have a worse record than the maquila industry . |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps because it 's so easy to believe the worst of you . ’ |
| 8 | It is possible that the wars of 573 to 575 marked the worst period of civil war in sixth-century Francia . |
| 9 | He was said to have had a family in Belgium at one point , known Janke Adler , met Gauguin in a park , scribbled all over the statues at L'Ecole des Beaux Arts when a student in Paris , and lost all his money when the Japanese had the bad taste to conquer his rubber plantations sometime during the confused struggle for Manchuria during the opening stages of the last big one . |
| 10 | The old 911 had the worst laid-out cockpit of any new car . |
| 11 | ‘ Even by collective choice , it is easy to make a bad appointment , ’ says Siobhan Hamilton-Phillips , chief executive of the Vocational Guidance Association , which ranks many blue-chip corporations among its regular clients . |
| 12 | We stood in the doorway for a while until our eyes adjusted to the darkness and then , stooping low to avoid the worst of the smoke , we made our way through the crowd to a space that had been cleared for us close to the fire . |
| 13 | True , each sub-period was historically specific : while the years 1978–81 showed equally bad rates of manufacturing job loss in all the major areas of the North of Britain ( Table 5.4 ) , the aftermath in 1981–84 revealed the worst continuing rates in northern England ( the Northern Region , Yorkshire & Humberside and the North West ) . |
| 14 | This is one of those channels where it 's hard to find a bad sound ; everything set on 5 is about right , full-bodied but still jangly , exactly how it should be . |
| 15 | In photographic terms , this is called backlighting , and the camcorder 's attempt to find a compromise setting generally results in the under-exposure of the foreground , though some machines have metering systems which are sufficiently sophisticated to avoid the worst effects of this . |
| 16 | So therefore was there anything for me as a consumer go along to the theatre , have a back programme that has been sponsored by Hydro Electric to use the bad example . |
| 17 | Rumours about impending changes will occur anyway , and staff not fully informed are likely to fear the worst . |
| 18 | Christmas Day 1941 saw a bad air-raid on Rangoon in which many were killed and injured . |
| 19 | Compared with the other great all-rounders of his time , Imran Khan , Richard Hadlee and Kapil Dev , he is certainly the best batsman and best slip fielder , but Hadlee and Imran are more dangerous bowlers , and much less likely to have a bad day . |
| 20 | The Abbey National , now a bank , and the Leeds Permanent and the Halifax building societies were quick to break the bad news to already hard-pressed homeowners by stating that mortgage rates will probably have to rise by around 1.25 points to 14.75 per cent . |
| 21 | In the play , Cyrano de Bergerac 's single voice was more effective to drive the bad actor Montfleury off the stage than the protests of all the rest of the audience to restrain him . |
| 22 | Or is it , more simply , that wanting to know the worst is love 's favourite perversion ? |
| 23 | But somehow Mr Jaggers made us all show the worst side of our characters , and encouraged Drummle , who we all disliked , to annoy us . |
| 24 | But they all declared the worst is over . |
| 25 | We all feared the worst when BR withdrew InterCity services from the Settle & Carlisle . |
| 26 | They had discussed the possible reasons for such a meeting as they made their way to the farm , and all feared the worst . |
| 27 | For this most unspontaneous of artists , it is better to have a bad reason for something — a tenuous or cabbalistic reason — than to depend on chance , subjectivity and the moment . |
| 28 | Then , many had the bad luck to be infected whereas here we are talking about only a few people . |
| 29 | The monu-ments are grotesque ; each reflects the worst aspects of the taste of its time . |
| 30 | Certainly American Intelligence was unable to confirm the worst of the fears . |