Example sentences of "be bad [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They 're worse than the people trying to flog time-share holidays when you 're abroad . |
| 2 | And you do n't wan na upset them cos they 're worse than the drivers are n't they ? |
| 3 | His hole card must be worse than a five for a goodish low , or a second ace for a well-concealed high . |
| 4 | This Pool who is not Poole can not be worse than the last idiot I saw from the same backward profession : he was extremely fortunate that I did not send the details of his impertinences to the Medical Association or whatever it is called . |
| 5 | Unless it is very well managed , a ley will soon tumble down to indigenous species on a poor soil structure , and the end result will be worse than the beginning . |
| 6 | Disguising his real feelings he wrote cheerfully , telling them that it was better here than The Hague , as if to say that nothing could be worse than the hell of being unloved . |
| 7 | Nothing they could do now would be worse than the fear as the high gate fell like a guillotine behind him . |
| 8 | Chantler , their economic adviser , told the new Minister frankly that the Conservatives had over-estimated the reality of controls , and most of his colleagues shared his view that any new system of control could scarcely be worse than the one they were attempting to use . |
| 9 | Indeed , substitute child care might be worse than the situation from which the child has been removed . |
| 10 | The cure may be worse than the disease . |
| 11 | Half-heard rows may distress them more ; the fantasy of what is going on downstairs may well be worse than the reality . |
| 12 | Nothing could be worse than the life I was leading at present , I thought , where the pressures from being homeless and unemployed were likely to force me into a series of criminal acts which would result in prison , or vagrancy at the least . |
| 13 | After all , nothing could be worse than the war-torn , economically deprived , famine stricken homelands which they left behind . |
| 14 | However , the aim of the thing to bear in mind : each check in the chase to be worse than the one before it . |
| 15 | If the opponent is a weak player and the program is strong , then the opponent 's choice of move will usually be worse than the one leading from HisPos to MyNewPos . |
| 16 | Indeed , the situation might actually be worse than the classical neurosis because at least in that case the chief symptoms of the disorder , for instance , neurotic anxiety , present themselves as definite psychopathic factors , whereas in an externalized , acted-out neurosis the symptoms may be reality factors that arise because of maladaptive behaviour which may mask its irrational , compulsive nature . |
| 17 | If , on the other hand , the estimates are always equal to or less than the actual cost for a path , as in Fig. 8.2. , then even if the algorithm initially takes the wrong path , its actual cost will be worse than the other , optimistically estimated paths . |
| 18 | Despite recession , the pre-tax total of £801 million was just £151 million short of the record profits struck in 1989 and the new chairman , Sir Robin Ibbs , said : ‘ One has to be a super pessimist to think the current year will be worse than the last one , ’ though he warned that ‘ it is too soon for me to predict the extent or timing of the recovery ’ . |
| 19 | They would also be worse than the ruckus stirred up by Clarke 's remarks on firstly , the improbability of Labour being able to renationalise a privatised water industry , and secondly , the worthlessness of the Scottish financial industry . |
| 20 | No no cos it could n't be worse than the one in the girls toilets today seeing as someone shat on the floor |
| 21 | But I think once they 've gone off the road now it 's gon na be gon na be worse when the , when the engine stops ? |
| 22 | It would be worse if the army — ’ But it was no time to be arguing . |
| 23 | Again , the influence of anharmonicity is not removed by these studies , and may even be worse if the anharmonicity is significantly different for the isotopic species , as it is with M-H and M-D stretches . |
| 24 | But there was some comfort in the figures for the Government and for an already hard-pressed pound , which could have faced another battering if the deficit had been worse than the expected £1.5billion . |
| 25 | These comments are slightly at variance with the rather more positive reports from the specialist booksellers in The Bookseller 's Christmas roundup ( 8th January ) , although the latter were evidently expressing a degree of relief that Christmas had n't been worse while the CBI survey respondents were , at least , somewhat less pessimistic than a year previously . |
| 26 | Poorly produced visual aids are worse than no aids at all . |
| 27 | It may be unfair to picture the horrors of Texas as if they are worse than the horrors of industrial Britain . |
| 28 | Vincent retorted that he did wish to be better than he was , and feared stagnation , but was ‘ even more afraid of remedies that are worse than the evil itself . ’ |
| 29 | Initially , when they try to work as a team , the results are worse than the individuals produce on their own , and the best solutions do n't get brought out . |
| 30 | And although it will grea , greatly help some women , unfortunately some women are unable to tolerate it , the side effects it gi , it gives them are worse than the actually symptoms they 're having in the first place . |