Example sentences of "was make worse [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as the recession of 1980–81 was made worse by holding rates up in pursuit of a money-supply target , so today 's recession could be intensified by the pursuit of an exchange-rate target . |
| 2 | This was made worse by a slight over-count of whites — people with two homes , for instance , tended to be double-counted . |
| 3 | The DoE 's difficulty was made worse by its maladroit handling of the press and contacts with Britain 's scientists and environmental groups . |
| 4 | The situation was made worse by the fact that the officers who had originally been blocking Simpson 's Brae moved down to the rear of the march and then , unaware that their colleagues were dispersing the head of the demonstration , were confronted by protesters running towards them . |
| 5 | This impasse was made worse by continued falls in copper prices until the mid-1980s . |
| 6 | The situation was made worse by the 1986 earthquake , which exacerbated the housing shortage and destroyed or damaged numerous schools . |
| 7 | Because her social isolation was made worse by her inability to drive she agreed , before the next session , to take the therapist 's advice to arrange driving lessons . |
| 8 | The disaster was made worse by the destruction of transport . |
| 9 | The stuffiness in the hold was made worse by the acrid smell of unwashed bodies . |
| 10 | One concomitant of the close link between landed patrons and Anglican clergy was a growing divorce between the church and people which was made worse by the generally lax state of the eighteenth-century diocese of Chichester . |
| 11 | But if Creggan 's own sense of imprisonment was made worse by the sight of other caged creatures , it was heightened yet further by the fact that small song birds like sparrows , thrushes and starlings would dart freely in between the bars of the Cages and take advantage of what they found there . |
| 12 | The empire was in a state of decline which had begun with the havoc wrought in 1204 by the Fourth Crusade and was made worse by internal conflicts . |
| 13 | The shortfall was made worse by the high level of civilian staff , which is traditional in Derbyshire . |
| 14 | The beating was made worse by two crazy own goals , Mark Carlisle putting the first past his own keeper in the fourth minute and Stephen Young looping a spectacular back header over Grant in the second half . |
| 15 | But others felt the bins themselves presented a health hazard which was made worse by inadequate servicing in the summer . |