Example sentences of "[art] worse " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless it is an utterance of the Amis who has made himself known on other occasions , and it can be none the worse for being read by those who are able and disposed to pay intelligent attention to this range of information — which is not to imply that the information may not be disastrously misunderstood . |
| 2 | But many a foot of land the worse … |
| 3 | But many a many foot of land the worse . |
| 4 | Before you get the idea that such a bias occurs only in national competitions , I would like to point out that the worse case of this I ever saw was in a world championship . |
| 5 | ‘ All the worse , ’ replies Stepan . |
| 6 | Many of the elaborate theses on English Literature produced by American students for their Doctorate , and afterwards published , were monuments of misdirected effort ; in short , a true sense of literature as a living thing was lost , and in its place was substituted an investigation after the worse pattern of German ‘ research ’ , deadening alike to those who wrote and those who read it . |
| 7 | It is entirely possible to think that if ‘ literary ’ and ‘ aesthetic ’ are words that go naturally with ‘ American ’ but not with ‘ English ’ , so much the worse for the English . |
| 8 | Tate , so devoted to Eliot 's precedent , appears to have dismissed as amiably perfunctory the respect that Eliot , not quite consistently but repeatedly , accorded to Pound 's prose-writings and Pound 's literary opinions ; and — so it might be argued , though this is not the place for it — Tate 's own verse , and the verse of those he influenced , were the worse for having taken note of Eliot 's precedent without attending equally to Pound 's . |
| 9 | In 1986 she contacted her local authority for help ; it was then , she says , that her life changed for the worse . |
| 10 | He was the worse for wear in another sense , come the end of the evening . |
| 11 | The more ballots spread , the worse the left performs . |
| 12 | The worse the violence , the less people want to talk about it . |
| 13 | Times have changed dramatically for the worse in Wales , a condition brought on as much as anything by the masochistic fixture-making which has brought about so much contact between the countries since the Welsh were blacked out in the 1987 World Cup semi-final . |
| 14 | But just to be on the safe side Mrs Lawson was stationed in 11 Downing Street , giving her husband a convenient reason to visit the capital if circumstances took a sudden turn for the worse . |
| 15 | The story has then been one of the dynamic interaction of politics and economics , with political change affecting the economy — so far mainly for the worse — and economic crisis sharpening the political struggle . |
| 16 | Yet those who have come off the worse from their dealings with Hamnett may have sharper recall , among them London 's high fashion retailers Joseph Ettedgui and Peter Bertelsen . |
| 17 | Town soil is not like country soil , and the smaller the area the worse it is . |
| 18 | They see themselves as occupying a position at the bottom of an organization which places a heavy emphasis on hierarchy , making their location all the worse . |
| 19 | The statement ‘ everyone has a right to medical care adequate to his health and well-being ’ is , in the Universal Declaration , tantamount to the highwayman 's ‘ stand and deliver ’ : if this right is not realisable within a society , it must be realised by compulsory redistribution and reorganisation as between societies , and if it is still impracticable even by compulsion on an international scale , so much the worse for the international community ! |
| 20 | He led on the easy bits , followed and pushed on the worse sections . |
| 21 | Not surprisingly , the position of the Patel woman changed for the worse . |
| 22 | If you have any original Lloyd Loom which is slightly the worse for wear , contact Graham Mancha on 029 6615121 . |
| 23 | The RUC sergeant went forward and arrested the man , who turned out to be the bank security guard who was rather the worse for drink , and had forgotten to lock the door ! |
| 24 | The worse things got for this cheerful pilgrim , the better to enjoy our home comforts . |
| 25 | But in fact the worse may not yet be over . |
| 26 | The whole book comes into the category of good dirty fun , and is not the worse for that . |
| 27 | People abandoned hope that things would get better , fearing simply that change at the top would mean change at the bottom — for the worse . |
| 28 | The worse for drink , he lurches away , staggering to a litter bin where he is sick . |
| 29 | After eleven years of Thatcherism the government 's macro policies have been transformed — for the worse . |
| 30 | It is there that Mr Kohl 's fine political antennae could get the worse of him . |