Example sentences of "[det] a bad [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mountbatten proposed that he and Amanda should accompany Charles , so he could show ‘ the two young people I love so much … the country which means so much to me ’ , but the Duke of Edinburgh thought this a bad idea . |
| 2 | Nor did lie think this a bad thing since , as I had emphasised before , he hail little love for Coalitions . |
| 3 | ‘ Is this a bad time ? ’ he asked , allowing Rain to put him off . |
| 4 | In an ideal world , there would be no need for either , but for now I would rather see the frustration expressed in these light-hearted terms than in the sort of man-hating bitterness that has given feminism such a bad name . |
| 5 | And so on and so on for another hour and a half , sweating and dazed , until at 4.48 a.m. , extremely painfully , out comes young Tom ( not such a bad name ; commonplace , I know ) , emerging head looking like a terrifically cross blue Brussels sprout , splosh go the fluids , splat goes the placenta and there he is . |
| 6 | Someone resolved to escape from the rainboy alliance of layabouts , conmen and weird minorities who have given Labour such a bad name . ’ |
| 7 | This attitude is one of the things that has given non-verbal communication such a bad name and since it already has a somewhat shaky reputation due to the fact that it has no powerful theory associated with it , its academic credibility suffers in comparison to that of formal linguistics . |
| 8 | ‘ Not such a bad person underneath . |
| 9 | And we like to tabulate things , and we like to think that who is a bad sinner , who 's not such a bad person , we all need saving , we all need rescuing ! |
| 10 | IN the first three days of 1993 , Japan 's National Police Agency reported record numbers of visitors at the country 's Shinto shrines. 1992 had been such a bad year that people were keen to pray for better fortunes in the months ahead . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's not such a bad day — sort of interesting , ’ she said . |
| 12 | If he said ‘ Good morning , men ! ’ as he passed by then it might not be such a bad day . |
| 13 | Maybe Vanessa Vail was n't such a bad fantasy after all : she might die , but at least she was her own woman . |
| 14 | You are such a bad man bringing women home for me to cook for that the courts would acquit me . ’ |
| 15 | God knows — I shall make every effort to write to you of course , but I am such a bad writer and after a while it begins to be very difficult to write the essence of one 's personality and atmosphere on paper . |
| 16 | ‘ Bobby needed to look better in the eye of the public — not to be such a bad boy . |
| 17 | In fact , Kaptan was not such a bad boy . |
| 18 | What you do with someone who is not in such a bad way will depend on your relationship with the young person and on what situation you are in : |
| 19 | When Peckinpah left Cornwall , he seemed in such a bad way that the possibility of replacing him was discussed . |
| 20 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA is in such a bad way that only the determination of the French state keeps it alive , and Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA is not much healthier . |
| 21 | He says that they mounted an undercover operation to get to the horse — it 's in such a bad way it may have to be put down . |
| 22 | They thought he was going to die he was in such a bad way . ’ |
| 23 | They er I mean in , in Handsworth right , on this bottom corridor , the boys ' bottom corridor , it is in such a bad way you know like they keep erm like putting their fists through windows and things like that , and the amount of repairs and fining . |
| 24 | and they thought , they said then it was connected with the accident , erm because it , you know , she was in such a bad way , and , the other fellow was to blame , I think he 'd been drinking , I 'm not sure , but they 're claiming off the insurance and they reckon she 's gon na be entitled to around a hundred thousand pounds compensation , because , not only has she had these physical injuries , but because she had a knock on the head it 's also affecting her mental state |
| 25 | Erm and so now rich peasants are actually actively seeking to join er associations but finding it difficult , I mean they have to be er pay an additional admission fee may be ten yuan or , or whatever , you know , usually far higher than the normal peasant or erm they have to get someone to actually put their name forward to say that you know they 're not such a bad bloke . |
| 26 | That 's surprising he do n't have such a bad head ! |
| 27 | ‘ I can not think , ’ remarked Russell , ‘ Why laziness should have had such a bad press . |
| 28 | They are probably also the reason the old Barbarians get such a bad Press . |
| 29 | You can see why I was in such a bad mood Saturday cos if I 'd drunk that much Friday night you can imagine what sort of a hang over I had . |
| 30 | But he 's in such a bad mood at the moment . |