Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [art] bad " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a tribute I suppose to the English language that there are so many forms of circumlocution that it is remarkably easy to persuade yourself that you have made a bold statement , or conveyed the bad news , whilst in reality there is no conceivable possibility that the recipient has actually understood what you are talking about . |
| 2 | As a top physiotherapist , she is more than used to stretching and flexing the muscles of people who have tortured their frail frame , or endured a bad tackle on the football field . |
| 3 | Discuss your problem with Larry the Lamb or Sin the Bad . |
| 4 | Since the early seventeenth century , despite the central government 's efforts to attenuate , curb or eliminate the worst abuses ( to the extent of publicly hanging the first Governor of Siberia , M.P . |
| 5 | Students held secret meetings and there were rumours of plots to assassinate Mussolini , but these always failed , and It was said that those involved were given long prison sentences or suffered a worse fate . |
| 6 | Nervous controls are not the same as behavioural responses of the kind we have seen in the case of reptiles , which situate themselves at angles to gain the maximum benefit from , or to avoid the worst excesses of , solar radiation . |
| 7 | If you had a cold , aconite would stop it from developing , or keep a bad cold from becoming something worse . |
| 8 | Very often , if they lost their income or savings , or had a bad marriage , or developed a serious organic disease , they did recover from their neuroses . |
| 9 | Firms that avoided the worst excesses of the wheeling-dealing 1980s are making steady profits , and much of the loss was due to expensive restructuring at Shearson Lehman ( which spent $640m ) and Prudential-Bache ( $370m ) . |
| 10 | I think we 're all agreed that it 's better for us to die honourably together in this way than to risk a worse fate at the hands of the enemy . " |
| 11 | Do n't let's just say drugs are bad , because for every one that has a bad time , and some people have a terrible time , you say some people die , I accept that . |
| 12 | She wanted to hate him , and on one level she did , but part of her still wanted him , and that seemed the worst betrayal of all . |
| 13 | Back and forth between its two summits , Points 265 and 295 , swayed the opposing forces , locked together in a crescendo of desperation that typified the worst of the months of ceaseless combat on the Left Bank . |
| 14 | But its thickhead supporters like you that get a bad name for him . |
| 15 | A form of structure that avoids the worst of these disadvantages and in appropriate cases presents some benefits , is matrix organization ( Davies and Lawrence , 1977 ) . |
| 16 | It is generally agreed that making a bad decision ( for which the remedy is an appeal ) will not normally be treated as ground for dismissal of a Circuit judge as showing ‘ inability or misbehaviour ’ . |
| 17 | It is unbelievably churlish if , for ideological reasons , the hon. Gentleman remains hostile to the best innovation in Bradford for years , while defending a local authority that had the worst results in the country in the recent tests for seven-year-olds . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's much better than ringing the bad one and bringing all the torments of Hell down on yourself for nothing . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Jeff Koons has provided one last pathetic gasp of the sort of self-promoting hype and sensationalism that characterised the worst of the '80s , ’ raged Michael Kimmelman in the New York Times , while Robert Hughes of Time called Koons ‘ the starry-eyed opportunist par excellence ’ . |
| 20 | Nor does he now believe in an inevitable outcome : ‘ He that hath the worst cause may sometimes have the best success . ’ |
| 21 | What is likely to happen is that they will shun those centres that have a bad name or are lacking in professional infrastructure ( the two usually go together ) in favour of well-regulated , stable ones . |
| 22 | They say it 's one step closer to further privatisation within the prison service ; something that leaves a bad taste in their mouths . |
| 23 | By her insulation , Czechoslovakia has bought herself a safe and steady misery and avoided the worst buffetings of the decade : only 27.3 per cent of the country 's trade was conducted outside the Bloc in 1978 , compared with over 50 per cent in the case of Poland and Romania . |
| 24 | He points out that under John Akers , IBM has built its desktop computing business to $8,500m in worldwide sales in 1991 , giving it 19% market share ; remained the worldwide leader in information technology revenues , at $62,800m last year up nearly 30% from $48,500m in 1985 when Akers took over ; and avoided the worst crisis that could have befallen it — which would have been to sacrifice investments in research and development for the sake of a fast buck — it spent $6,600m last year . |
| 25 | He swerved and avoided the worst of the impact , but was catapulted on to the bonnet of the car and then on to the pavement . |
| 26 | If you do you will become muddled and make a bad impression . |
| 27 | I will leave them behind me and go only with the clothes on my back , and then I have two miles and a half and a byway to the town , and bring pretty well dressed I may come to some harm almost as bad as what I ran away from , and then , perhaps , it will be reported I have stolen something , and to carry a bad name to my dear parents … |
| 28 | If you are unlucky and suffer a bad frost-burn , be prepared to prune the stems further back to the next dormant eye , whatever its direction , and whatever the date . |
| 29 | If you find that you worry about the imagined outcome of the bout and fear the worst or if you have a racing pulse , then I would say you are over-aroused and in danger of throwing everything away . |
| 30 | We all to some extent remember the good times and forget the bad , but perhaps that is another important part of the make-up of the ultra runner . |