Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] bad [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could only make for bad blood between the Li clan and himself and shatter the age-old ties between their families . |
| 2 | He began life as a commercial photographer and worked for Renault , but he was sacked for bad time keeping after late nights in the darkroom . |
| 3 | He does n't think about bad debt , only about positive cash-flow . |
| 4 | The Professional 's wife , acting as Steward , was dismissed for bad language and automatically it cost her husband his job . |
| 5 | In short , we should call the offence reckless driving , but the occurrence of death , even though it may be regarded as bad luck , should aggravate the sentence . |
| 6 | To put it another way , President Reagan 's plans are likely to attract the kind of remarks that another John — McEnroe not McElroy — normally reserves for bad line calls . |
| 7 | ( a ) Why might society wish to ban drugs that neither help nor harm the diseases they are claimed to cure ? ( b ) It is sometimes argued that regulatory bodies will be blamed for bad things that happen in spite of the regulations ( e.g. a plane crash ) but not blamed so much for good things that are prevented ( e.g. the quick availability of a safe and useful drug ) by stringent tests and regulations . |
| 8 | Political parties have often been attacked as bad things in the body politic . |
| 9 | It is indeed difficult to conceive of bad faith which would not automatically render applicable one of the two traditional control mechanisms . |
| 10 | Urgh they 're the ones that smell like bad fish ! |
| 11 | The phone in the cellar had rung with bad news . |
| 12 | If an Act of Parliament says that A ( who may be a minister or a commission or a local authority or an individual ) shall be the person to settle certain specified questions and that there shall be neither appeal to nor review by any other body or person ( including the courts ) , then A's decisions are unchallengeable so long as ( a ) it is A , not another , who decides , ( b ) A decides those specified questions and not others and ( c ) A does not act in bad faith or with similar impropriety . |
| 13 | In spite of modern climbing gear and boots , present day mountaineering and fell walking in bad weather is still difficult and at times dangerous . |
| 14 | July 30 : DHC–2 Beaver floatplane N67151 crashed in bad weather near Dillingham , south west of Anchorage , Alaska . |
| 15 | At least 20 people were reported killed on Nov. 18 , when a Soviet military transport aircraft crashed in bad weather at the Amderna air field on the polar Karskoe Sea . |
| 16 | George can only advise , issue ultimatums and final warnings , while England No 2 Lawrie McMenemy has made it clear how the international camp looks upon bad behaviour . |
| 17 | Caducius was built at Sunderland in 1857 , and was en route to Salerno with a cargo of coal when she sank in bad weather . |
| 18 | I suppose the presence of such qualities would be considered in bad taste . |
| 19 | This is obviously a terrible place to be caught in bad weather or poorly acclimatised . |
| 20 | That was England 's 26th triumph in Europe and whether the latest exits can be blamed on bad luck or tactical naivety is a matter for conjecture . |
| 21 | Conflict is thus blamed on bad management , lack of leadership , poor communication , or ‘ bloody-mindedness ’ on the part of individuals or interest groups that impinge on the organisation . |
| 22 | Some of that was blamed on bad weather . |
| 23 | America 's faltering recovery continued with a 6.7% rise in housing starts in April over the previous month , lower than had been expected after a first quarter in which housing starts had been curbed by bad weather . |
| 24 | The road from Aarau to Brugg passes through Bad Schinznach , a health resort with one of the richest sulphur springs in Europe . |
| 25 | So what can we do about bad habits in horses ? |
| 26 | Invariably it 's done through bad timing or trying to rush it . |
| 27 | Jovially swapping innuendos which a year earlier would have been seen as bad taste sexism by the singer . |
| 28 | People die of bad chicken . ’ |
| 29 | To guard against bad group decisions , we can all watch for the characteristics given above . |
| 30 | It 's not necessarily done with bad intentions , but unless there 's much greater flow in and out , then I fear we 're on a downward path . |