Example sentences of "[pron] [be] bad [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you think any of them are bad Claire ? |
| 2 | I 'm bad man . |
| 3 | People milled past , skirting me as though I were bad luck . |
| 4 | Poor productivity , according to the DTI , is to be blamed partly on bad management of the workforce and partly on lack of investment ( which is bad management in another form ) . |
| 5 | Of note this time round are cosmic headhunters Mooseheart Faith Stellar Groove Band and Praise Space Electric , the twisted 14th Wray who invite you to a ‘ Yuppie Deadhead Party ’ and the mutilated shriek of Boris And His Bolshie Balalaika which is bad drug craziness at its frothing , wild-eyed best . |
| 6 | You see , if three guests suddenly leave , after their fishing holiday , when you are at position four on the board , your name is catapulted to top position — missing out on second- and third-best positions , which is bad news given the quality of all the fishing available . |
| 7 | It is , of course , a good thing that Extreme dislike war and racism , print addresses for Greenpeace and Amnesty on the sleeve and so forth , but they have nothing of interest to say on the topics ( Nuno wishes that ‘ we were all colourblind , so we could live together peacefully ’ , which is bad news for traffic light designers ) and blow up their tiny philosophical points and questions to elephant size , but in the end , orchestras , big productions and songs in three parts can not disguise lame tunes and lack of anything to say . |
| 8 | The Edinburgh side are now at full strength which is bad news for Kelburne whose international players , David Fowler and Michael Starling , have to readjust to the indoor set-up after their trip to Cairo last week with the Scottish outdoor squad . |
| 9 | That concluded a half which was bad news for the candidacy of McClair to partner his volatile new colleague . |
| 10 | Witnesses at the time stated that it was roofless , which was bad news for any building in the foothills of the Pyrenees , where the wind always blows and snow regularly falls . |
| 11 | Plenty was bad news . |
| 12 | SCHOOLKIDS who are bad spellers will be docked exam marks in a Government crackdown announced yesterday . |
| 13 | It 's very hard to get work , but it 's a very small community and if you 're bad word gets around . |
| 14 | You 're bad guys ? |
| 15 | Sorry , old boy , you 're bad news , ca n't help . ’ |
| 16 | Because he had the freedom to hang around with anyone , it only seems natural that somewhere along the line he was going to get mixed up with people who were bad news . |
| 17 | ‘ It is not as though we are bad shopkeepers or have been foolish with our money . |
| 18 | We are not as accomplished as the best German orchestras , and this is not because we are bad string players , but simply because we 're a kind of pot pourri , we have all kinds of different string styles in England . |
| 19 | One is bad money and the other 's a mad bunny ! |
| 20 | Well , if you think the last one was bad wait till you see this one . |
| 21 | I 'm sure that they could have found other examples where solicitors were not doing the job very well and were charging a lot of money because let's be realistic there are good solicitors and there are bad solicitors and I would n't pretend otherwise . |
| 22 | There are habits and sometimes there are bad habits and sometimes assume they ca n't hymn composer and our next hymn What is ? |
| 23 | Despite what is written above , there are bad book elements in Enid Blyton 's stories — if we define bad books as those that limit readers ' expectations of themselves and of others . |
| 24 | ‘ Effendi , ’ said the chauffeur earnestly , ‘ there are bad men abroad . ’ |
| 25 | Will there be bad turbulence from obstructions upwind of the field ? |
| 26 | There were bad times as well as good . |
| 27 | The good effects of war can be detected only in the long term , and there were bad effects too , while the consequences of coalition for the party were immediate and almost wholly negative . |
| 28 | But of course there were bad moments now and then , when full realization swooped down upon her , and she had to face the thought of a joyless future for Susan and herself . |
| 29 | Adam Smith did not deny that there were bad examples within the " system of repairing the highroads by tolls " , but in 1776 thought this was because the system was not then of long standing . |
| 30 | Of course there were bad days . |