Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [art] worse " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've not seen a worse sea this year . |
| 2 | I can not imagine a worse , ’ he said . |
| 3 | ‘ I can not imagine a worse torture than not knowing how long your pension will be paid , ’ Mr Trench told a London news conference before they marched to Parliament to lobby their MPs . |
| 4 | But if you can produce 28 seconds that actually exists as a piece of entertainment and makes people laugh , nobody will ever think the worse of you for it . |
| 5 | Until the Ottoman empire began to decline in the late eighteenth century , Christian subjects in the Balkans were probably treated no worse than were the peasants of central Europe by their Christian feudal overlords . |
| 6 | In this tour through the modern world the way we run things comes to seem ever more absurd , a house of cards built upon endless bureaucracy — a paper chase that leaves us all working frantically to keep a worse quality of life . |
| 7 | This will probably have a worse risk-benefit trade off than the formalised use of league tables . |
| 8 | This will probably have a worse risk-benefit trade off than the formalised use of league tables . |
| 9 | The density of tree crowns and the proportion of dead shoots both indicated a worse state of health , except for beech , which showed small signs of improvement . |
| 10 | But when people lose their jobs , they now stand a worse than fifty-fifty chance of being out of work for more than three months ( in July 1978 , 53 per cent of those who were registered as unemployed had been out of work for longer than three months ) . |
| 11 | She says sufferers often think the worse . |
| 12 | ‘ Though whether women really have a worse time in this sort of society is a matter for argument , ’ she said . |
| 13 | After the disastrous presidency of George Bush , Arfur Daley himself could n't do a worse job . |
| 14 | " I could n't have a worse offer if I lived to be a hundred . |
| 15 | Asked after the meeting if the current year could be worse , he said : ‘ I ca n't imagine a worse one . ’ |
| 16 | As regards utilising the services of third parties for debt collection , you have once again assumed the worse scenario as if I meant their complete extinction , which I quite clearly stated ‘ less dependent ’ . |
| 17 | In the late romanticism of Stevenson 's tale of corruption in the South Seas , the islanders are not seen as virtuous noble savages , but certainly appear no worse than the white men who take advantage of them . |
| 18 | Hewlett , predictably , has ‘ never seen a worse church ’ . |