Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] bad [adv] " in BNC.

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1 and the Germans are bad enough
2 GUIL : ( Looking up and around ) Then the times are bad indeed .
3 Times are bad enough without men running up old horror tales of the Hidden Folk in the mountains . ’
4 The side effects of learning for the sake of extrinsic rewards are bad enough .
5 ‘ Christ ! ’ remarked Sid ‘ These fuckin' mauses are worse then the mortars and the sniping .
6 ‘ Duw , ’ she said , ‘ do n't you worry about that , now , my mam is no trouble , it 's just her legs are bad just now and that cough of hers is troublesome but she bears up well , mind . ’
7 Carl 's tantrums were bad enough , but understandable due to pressures put on his shoulders .
8 Opening Catholic schools was bad enough but consorting with the head of the Dublin government was entirely beyond the pale for loyalists .
9 We must remember that there was no compulsory army conscription in Britain — compulsion in schools was bad enough , and standing armies had long been anathema to the ‘ freeborn Englishman ’ — and it was not until the years following the Second World War that compulsory national service would come into existence in peace-time Britain .
10 ‘ French universities are bad enough , English are ten times worse .
11 Stake-outs were bad enough at the best of times , but when the elements were hostile , the hours of silent watching could seem like weeks .
12 the the original , the first weight gain , the first week ten days is bad enough you only gain two or three pounds but it 's all going round your tummy
13 In the summer the working conditions are bad enough ; in the winter they 're tortuous .
14 The dreams are bad enough .
15 Things are bad enough without our own guns shelling us ! ’
16 Things are bad enough in Numbers 14 .
17 Things are bad enough here without that ! ’
18 Things are bad enough without laying more fuel to the fire . ’
19 Things are bad enough now but if there is no sign of progress towards a settlement , the people who are still giving friendly waves to UN troops are likely to start throwing stones as they do in Northern Ireland .
20 But if you think things are bad now , just wait till the case has been to court .
21 Two people got out of her compartment , but three more got in , so things were worse instead of better .
22 If Rory Collins were an activist , or even if his links with terrorists were palpable , then things were bad indeed .
23 Still , if I thought my difficulties were bad enough , some have had it worse than me .
24 Now in order to look at this relationship between labour and capital and output total product simultaneously we need to draw a 3 D diagram , alright , but because my diagrams are bad enough in 2 D what we are going to do is we are going to constrain one of these factors , right , so what we will do is we will pick a level of ou a level of capital input , right , and we will see what happens to total product as we vary labour .
25 Having to take notice of your moral scruples was bad enough : parading them in front of other people was unbearable .
26 School holidays were bad enough , but now it 's past bearing .
27 ‘ The average increases are bad enough .
28 The problem of having more holes than fingers is bad enough , but the serpentine bore means that the fingering in unlike that of any other instrument .
29 Handing over our currency to the Germans is bad enough without handing over our foreign policy too .
30 ‘ Listening in to private conversations is bad enough .
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