Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [verb] bad [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report found that the direct cause of the accident was faulty rewiring work carried out near Clapham in November 1988 , and that BR had to accept collective responsibility for allowing bad working practices to slip to unacceptable and dangerous levels . |
| 2 | Strategies for ignoring bad behaviour |
| 3 | No doubt the missio , with its insistence on proving bad faith , had not been a wholly satisfactory remedy . |
| 4 | The prospects for establishing bad faith are very limited however , given that virtually any policy that is premised on increasing profits but which will be damaging to employees , such as a plant closure , can be portrayed as being beneficial to the employees in general , for example by making other jobs in the company more secure , thus supporting the claim that employee interests have been sufficiently considered . |
| 5 | St Augustine 's and St Bede 's in Darlington are manifestly good schools which were at risk of becoming bad schools because of overcrowding . |
| 6 | At the end , the traitor of the English clan hurled his credit cards at his parents ’ grave in what seemed to be a symbol for throwing bad money after good . |
| 7 | A way of eliminating bad behaviour . |
| 8 | Parents should ensure that they do not encourage persistent disobedience by rewarding bad behaviour . |
| 9 | Both Angela and Meribeth are trained in the Alexander Technique , a method of helping free the body 's natural energy by unlearning bad postural and breathing habits . |