Example sentences of "[adj] and [prep] bad " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such reactions have been at best unhelpful and at worst extremely damaging . |
| 2 | He was no longer indifferent to the cars around him — they had become alien and aggressive , peopled by spectres whose driving was at best incompetent and at worst downright criminal . |
| 3 | If such complacent thinking brought popular credibility to those in power , NCOAP policy was best tactically misguided and at worst symptomatic of a stubborn refusal to encounter poverty rather than pauperism . |
| 4 | In the last of these veins , Harman acknowledges , ‘ The problem , on the surface at least , is the persistence , the seriousness , with which an intelligence of this order employs devices that seem to be at best witty and at worst trivial . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ At the best it is dubious and at worst it could be costing us a lot of money . ’ |
| 6 | He accused successive Education Secretaries of serving the UK poorly , listening only partially , and having ‘ an apparent determination to push through so-called reforms with a consultation process which is at best minimal and at worst cynical . ’ |
| 7 | The general opinion was that the court was ‘ vulgar and in bad taste ’ , but interestingly enough it was not the King who was held responsible for this state of affairs . |
| 8 | It was at best a mere palliative and at worst it actively sustained the unfit and degenerate elements of the population in their reckless overbreeding . |
| 9 | It may reassure your readers who need protection from reality , but grown-ups must find it at best sloppy and at worst malicious . |
| 10 | The model obtained by combining rational expectations and the simple natural rate hypothesis produces a particularly dramatic policy conclusion , and one which gave rational expectations some initial notoriety , for it suggested that the Keynesian approach to macroeconomic policy which governments in many countries had adopted after the Second World War was at best unnecessary and at worst harmful . |
| 11 | But the whole concept of past-life regression was thought to be at best unbelievable and at worst as some form of dabbling in an area which would be better left unexplored . |
| 12 | This account is at best naive and at worst apologetic for the behaviour of the Organization 's largest member — the United States . |
| 13 | He is the source both of good and of bad fortune , the ultimate centre of the dynamism of the cosmos in man 's experience of his physical and social world . |
| 14 | This is a particular threat given the present NHS management ethos , which is at best distant and disinterested and at worst disregards workforce morale . |
| 15 | This can sometimes be achieved by reacting to individual happenings to media enquiries but at best this approach is haphazard and at worst it is inefficient and potentially dangerous . |
| 16 | In condemning such acts of desecration , I am of the opinion that the only exception that could be made is in the case of books already seriously incomplete and in bad condition , when the completion of its unhappy disintegration may be forgivable . |
| 17 | This is the complement of many people 's memories of being in school as a pupil : one or two teachers , and a handful of ‘ high spots ’ , stand out against a background that was , for many , at best unmemorable and at worst something to be deliberately forgotten . |
| 18 | The earlier one , on the Eurodisc label , was disappointing mainly on account of the choral singing of the Leipzig Radio Chorus which was at best lustreless and at worst inadequate . |
| 19 | It is therefore clear that the distinction between the different ‘ pillars ’ of the Maastricht Treaty is at best intended to be temporary and at worst is wholly meaningless . |
| 20 | Instead of taking decisive action , however , the cabinet 's reaction was at best ineffective and at worst irresponsible . |
| 21 | Empirical therapy with class I antiarrhythmic drugs ( quinidine , procainamide , disopyramide ) was once widely practised but has been shown to be at best ineffective and at worst dangerous . |
| 22 | To pretend , therefore , that unemployment is a temporary phenomenon , which can be cured by a combination of retraining and market forces , is at best naively optimistic and at worst politically dishonest . |
| 23 | ‘ Research , in the context of Brixton , was at best irrelevant and at worst a tool in the hands of the enemy … the enemy , of course , varying with the personal perspective of the speaker … |
| 24 | I repeat that the Home Secretary will rely on Bills like this , which are at best irrelevant and at worst unreasonable . |
| 25 | I do n't like heavy knocking campaigns which at best seem sour and at worst backfire . |
| 26 | Disgruntled governors who feel , rightly or wrongly , that they are not fully informed about the school can become at best difficult and at worst disruptive to LMS and its development . |
| 27 | ‘ Her reports were at the best misleading and at worst untrue reports , ’ Mr McMillan said . |
| 28 | The Scottish Office proposals to publish the information as part of a policy to tell parents more about schools are at best valueless and at worst dangerous , the committee says . |