Example sentences of "worse than the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The route , at least , was what they 'd said , and so with nothing worse than the altitude to battle against , we reached the summit with ample time to absorb the views . |
| 2 | This noise is worse than the Shed at Chelsea football club . |
| 3 | BBC Radio news scored 5.0 and Commercial Radio news 4.4. party leaflets came bottom with 4.0 while conversations with family , friends , and acquaintances scored 4.8 , which was better than party leaflets or Commercial Radio but worse than the press or television . |
| 4 | It was blazing worse than the Church . |
| 5 | Mr Rowe , who lives in George Street , said noise from the nearby cattle market was much worse than the church music . |
| 6 | When we finally left the school the return journey home was even worse than the journey to school with pupils being cheeky when you told them to sit down and face the front . |
| 7 | Some then went off to the latrines behind the back of the hall , which Charlie thought smelled worse than the middle of Whitechapel Road on a steaming summer 's day . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | These Americans were even worse than the Europeans , always in a hurry . |
| 10 | The man was now attacking Mr Pitt , calling him worse than the devil , cursing Parliament for being too feeble against him , raging — though it had to be admitted as a fine rage , a rage which at least convinced the speaker — against the law , the constitution , the King — ; |
| 11 | I found having it taken away worse than the strip search . |
| 12 | The operation of set-aside is even worse than the concept . |
| 13 | It is possibly no worse than the cricket |
| 14 | Furthermore , the ability of the regression equation ( 3.20 ) to explain the behaviour of Y t should not be any worse than the ability of equation ( 3.19 ) to do the same . |
| 15 | WORSE THAN The Guns of Navarone itself . |
| 16 | When the British were attacked for their role in the Boer War , Hyndman and Quelch for the British Social Democratic Federation prepared a dossier on the crimes of other imperial powers as the basis for condemning all — and so exonerating the British as no worse than the rest . |
| 17 | The report makes for fairly depressing reading , as it describes how the capital fares worse than the rest of the country in many areas of service . |
| 18 | You were no worse than the rest of them . |
| 19 | ‘ You 're no worse than the rest , ’ says my instructor , offering one small crumb of comfort . |
| 20 | But you know the Labour Party is worse than the Conservatives for traditions are n't they ? |
| 21 | ‘ If I am told that the economy is much worse than the Government has said … there 's something wrong with the way things are run in this country . |
| 22 | Kids making their own bombs and chucking " em into the tanks , getting theirselves blown up … those lousy Russians , sound worse than the Jerries , if you ask me . |
| 23 | But , it 's possible that , the same amount of drink , two people drink , taking the same amount of drink one is affected more badly than the other , or worse than the other . |
| 24 | And then coming round was worse than the shock itself . |
| 25 | But the new two-axle units were actually responsible for part of the upsurge in traffic on their routes and were certainly no worse than the buses with which they were successfully competing . |
| 26 | One reason that the monthly indicators look worse than the figures for total GNP , is that industrial production and business sales exclude certain factors that bolster GNP . |
| 27 | And some argue that the underlying position is worse than the figures suggest because of the eight changes made to the method of recording unemployment during the period . |
| 28 | Marcus thought of normality as a complex pattern on tracing paper , peaks , rounds , interlocking jigsaw parts , which , when slid over the mess of the actual graph or representation of what was , produced a thickened shifty outline , a jigging blurring worse than the original . |
| 29 | It may be unfair to picture the horrors of Texas as if they are worse than the horrors of industrial Britain . |
| 30 | I tried to take pictures of demonstrations in front of the American Embassy and the Americans were pushing me around worse than the Iraqis . |