Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [art] bad " in BNC.
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| 1 | The heavy clutch and cumbersome gear change remain the worst feature . |
| 2 | Though cholesterol has a bad reputation , a raised level of cholesterol in the blood being one of the risk factors associated with heart disease , it is actually an essential component of the body . |
| 3 | But until the moment he scored the equalising goal , the article claimed , ‘ if someone had held a referendum to find the worst player on the field , Gascoigne would have deserved a large chunk of the votes — or maybe all of them . ’ |
| 4 | Arriving , triumphant , in Ulm in the late afternoon , I had within half an hour found the worst hotel I had been in in years , with the modest staff and a parking ticket to boot . |
| 5 | DALLAS lawyer Bryan Garner has started a contest to find the worst examples of legal writing in Texas . |
| 6 | With just 15% of the vote Labour came a bad third at the last election , but a recent opinion poll , commissioned by the Liberal Democrats , revealed a surge in support for Mr Kent at the expense of Sir William — narrowing the gap between the two parties from 22% to 7% . |
| 7 | Scientists at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh are using biotechnology to produce a protein in large quantities which can ‘ filter ’ the blood of AIDS patients and remove the agent causing the worst symptoms . |
| 8 | Last year the Yorkshire Water Authority tentatively began the first stage of a £150 million programme to eliminate the worst coloured waters from such towns as Huddersfield , Halifax , Bradford and Sheffield . |
| 9 | The machine tool industry meets the worst of the problem , as it is at the end of the manufacturing cycle and can not respond quickly either in recession or in a boom , because of the long lead-times involved in production and delivery . |
| 10 | Once the horse has been hurt , especially if the horse has been hurt more than once , the horse forms the bad habit in response to its fear of pain , and removing the pain does not remove the fear of pain . |
| 11 | At worst , they are a facade hiding the worst excesses of management . |
| 12 | Parker daubed his eye ( the blood appeared no worse , but a steady , it must be an annoying , trickle ) with the tail of his shirt . |
| 13 | She comes into the room like a shy actress making a bad entrance , to find us poised round the door like actors on the set . |
| 14 | It has been common practice to anticipate the worst load conditions in setting the count required to generate the RETARD signal . |
| 15 | The change was due to the greater proportion of patients with colonic disease , which in this study had a worse prognosis . |
| 16 | Its activities led to the British Film Weeks of 1924 , which involved screening a programme of British pictures , accompanied by the sort of ballyhoo which left the public , according to critic Paul Rotha , ‘ hypnotized into readiness to applaud the worst picture in the world because it was British . ’ |
| 17 | It is well recognised that patients with Barrett 's columnar lined lower oesophagus represent the worst end of the reflux spectrum with the most severe forms of lower oesophageal sphincter and pump failure and consequently greater degrees of acid exposure . |
| 18 | At times , it seems to those taking part to resemble a bad dream as they are required to be vigilant in spite of distractions elsewhere caused by other unfinished tasks ! |
| 19 | The public sector has the worst record for absenteeism through sickness . |
| 20 | Winter was closing in fast over Europe and , as always at that time of year , he was travelling south to avoid the worst of the weather . |
| 21 | The annual award is normally given to a boss providing the worst pay and conditions but because of unemployment no one is making nominations . |
| 22 | The exchange represented the worst of both sides — woolly-minded thinking on the one hand and a blinkered response reducing morality to the level of materialism on the other . |
| 23 | Many leaders of working class women 's groups agreed that women 's paid work had a bad effect on the father 's willingness to earn . |
| 24 | Should we not ask ourselves whether the adulteress had a bad family upbringing , lacking in love , that she reacts in this way ? |
| 25 | Inevitably , the divorce had a bad effect on our relationship because I did n't know how to handle the situation . |
| 26 | The feature editor had a bad stutter , and Hannen Swaffer was deaf , so to watch them trying to communicate was hilarious . |
| 27 | A quick cup of tea with Ewen and then on to the Loganair Twin Otter which slithered up the slushy runway and took the over-sea route to avoid the worst weather en route to Barra stopping at Benbecula . |
| 28 | The fourth characteristic of each of the three countries is that they have had the luck to avoid the worst of the droughts which have badly affected agriculture and hydro-electric power supplies in many African countries in the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 29 | Most of us know someone who had the misfortune to suffer a bad car crash , or a heart attack , or a breakdown . |
| 30 | It is not only that no one on the planet has a bad word to say about Sybil : people trip over their superlatives . |