Example sentences of "bad than a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His hole card must be worse than a five for a goodish low , or a second ace for a well-concealed high . |
| 2 | Air bricks , extractor fans , open fires and dehumidifiers all help , but often you have to learn to live with it — and there is nothing worse than a new house which was built in wet conditions . |
| 3 | Either he had perfected the performance over the years to ward off sympathy from the able-bodied , or he was hiding something far worse than a self-destructive youth . |
| 4 | There is nothing worse than a shy ferret . |
| 5 | In the two West Midlands boroughs there was a clear tendency for the Conservatives to do better and Labour worse than a similar examination of a wide range of ward social characteristics would lead one to expect . |
| 6 | Britain would now be in the fortunate position of having had , in 1991 , nothing worse than a shallow and short-lived recession , from which a smart recovery would already have been taking place for several quarters , with no balance of payments constraint and little rise in unemployment . |
| 7 | If there 's one thing worse than a poor singer , I do n't know what it is . … ’ |
| 8 | Available in either black or white the first thing you notice about this guitar is that sitting down and playing it is practically impossible ; it 's worse than a Flying V in that respect . |
| 9 | Truly , there is nothing worse than a world-weary hippie , and nothing more strictly self-superior than the elders of the benevolent-beat-bohemian class . |
| 10 | The Germans had no idea who she was and the villagers from whom she had been begging food had not betrayed her ; she was allowed to go without suffering anything much worse than a slapped face and an hour 's sarcastic , sneering interrogation . |
| 11 | ‘ We do n't think it is a very good idea , because a voluntary monopoly is worse than a statutory monopoly because there is no control over it . |
| 12 | Take your seats ; there 's nothing worse than a cold dinner . ’ |
| 13 | A man who would not love his father 's grave is worse than a wild animal . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm the conman , ’ he replied , and that humiliation by Barnsley instantly began to feel like nothing worse than a bad dream . |
| 15 | If it had steeled itself to cross this threshold ( as Yemen bravely did a month ago ) , Egypt might today be afflicted by nothing worse than a bad case of anti-incumbency — hardly surprising after a dozen years with the same tired face at the top . |
| 16 | There is nothing worse than a bendy sea boat . |
| 17 | It 's worse than a medical dictionary , that is . |
| 18 | DENNIS CONNER , the defending America 's Cup skipper , shrugged off a poor start to claim his fifth win in six races against Bill Koch 's America Foundation in San Diego yesterday and needs only one more win to assure no worse than a sail-off for a place in the defenders ' final . |
| 19 | Lucy remarks to her pupils , in conversation , that she considers ‘ falsehood worse than an occasional lapse in church-attendance ’ ; thereafter a cool distance is kept between her and her pupils , in case she should influence them wrongly . |
| 20 | However romantically ill John might look , it seemed , that he had nothing worse than an unromantic cold . |
| 21 | But there 's nothing worse than an old fool . ’ |