Example sentences of "make a bad [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Punishment alone has never made a bad character into a good one , or even ensured temporary good behaviour . |
| 2 | Spartan Missile had made a bad mistake at the eighteenth and Thorne was giving him plenty of time to recover . |
| 3 | The hotel had much to keep youngsters occupied , but by day three we realised we had made a bad mistake in taking such a young child skiing . |
| 4 | The Catholic Church had made a bad mistake with Galileo when it tried to lay down the law on a question of science , declaring that the sun went round the earth . |
| 5 | Despite her defiant words , though , she had the feeling that she had made a bad mistake during these last few minutes . |
| 6 | Can I just enlarge upon that because , and quote from it , by boycotting employment action the CoUncil 's controlling group seem to have made a bad decision , prompted by a desire to score political points in the debating chamber . |
| 7 | Making herself examine this thought , slowly and properly turning it around in her mind , recreating the scene which she could see so vividly of Jasper and Bert with the two I.R.A. , she had to admit that Jasper and Bert had made a bad impression . |
| 8 | He announced a significant improvement in city-wide maths scores in 1991 , a decline in the drop-out rate from 20.8% to 17.2% which at least made a bad situation less appalling . |
| 9 | You have made a bad bargain in marrying Havvie . |
| 10 | In the difficult job of getting through one 's life happily , she had made a bad start . |
| 11 | Because they do n't make a bad noise . |
| 12 | Another upsetting aspect of caring , for some offspring , is the realisation that this task can wave no magic wand which will make a bad relationship better . |
| 13 | If you can make a bad orchestra tolerable , that is valuable . |
| 14 | ‘ You would n't make a bad pioneer if you had a bit more time for practice . |
| 15 | It will do you no good to try and keep away from the hub of activity and hope that by making no impression you will not make a bad impression . |
| 16 | Pre-flash wo n't make a bad picture good , but you can now expose your bad picture well . |
| 17 | Pre-flash wo n't make a bad picture good , but you can now expose your bad picture well . |
| 18 | I did n't make a bad job . |
| 19 | There were two routes to follow : on the one hand he could try and solve the murder , but that might make a bad situation worse . |
| 20 | The only snag was that Auger made a bad take-off and punctured one of his auxiliary tanks and broke off his tailwheel . |
| 21 | He made a bad Budget error on the threshold of the succession , many Tory MPs were said to prefer ( of all people ) Inskip , and there seems no doubt that Baldwin , had he wished , could have stirred up a good cauldron of uncertainty . |
| 22 | ‘ The ref made a bad decision . |
| 23 | ‘ But if you made a bad decision , or gave the wrong judgement against someone in a dispute , then some of your people might suffer . ’ |
| 24 | I made a bad mistake on my second lot of commercials — for Skol — by letting myself be persuaded by other people against my own instincts , so from then on I was very firm about what I wanted to do and what I was prepared to do , and it 's made my life easy . |
| 25 | You can have one quick move and if it 's a false one well er you made a bad mistake and you 've gone back about er whatsit and I think 's done exactly the same here he 's sacked us and he 's put himself in er in er queer corner s like a game of draughts you know and he 's trying all roads to come out of it . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh God , I made a bad mistake there . |
| 27 | For the year to 30 September , Leeds Permanent Building Society made a bad debt provision of £105.3m , forcing profit before tax down to £152.7m ( v £290.2m ) . |
| 28 | Having said the BMC made a bad move getting involved , the fact remains that access is now a major issue for mountain users ; not due to the traditional problems of a landowner barring access — there is much less of that these days . |
| 29 | Lupold was never acceptable to the pope ( to whom he remained the bishop of Worms who had transferred himself to Mainz without papal licence ) and when at the end of 1204 Philip saw hope of victory he made a bad move by sending Lupold to Italy . |
| 30 | The lord cardinal wished us to attend one more of his interminable banquets — and this is where I made a bad situation worse . |