Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] bad [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By making money follow the pupil , LMS will encourage good schools and penalise bad ones ; and by delegating budgets to individual heads , it will cut down on time-wasting bureaucracy . |
| 2 | But while it was still a live issue , it was amusing to see how ready people were to accept Steele 's defence that it was through the machination of such a crusted establishment figure as Avrion Mitchison that Steele had been invited to repeat his work in a scientific environment for the purpose of discrediting it — a defence that compounds bad science together with bad scientific journalism . |
| 3 | But , perhaps most important of all , companies had shown themselves unwilling to admit to failure or believe bad news , leading to deeper difficulties . |
| 4 | This remedy may be needed after a fright , rage , vexation , jealousy or hearing bad news . |
| 5 | His argument was that Tacitus had chosen the wrong period and provided bad examples for princes , whereas Polybius introduced the modern politicians to a noble period of ancient history . |
| 6 | Her social worker said the stealing was also the result of boredom and keeping bad company . |
| 7 | It 's not up to a writer to say whether a book works or not , but the point is that you can have good ideas and write bad novels from them ! |
| 8 | Embarrassed bank officials agreed not to call in police rather than lose the entire haul and face bad publicity . |
| 9 | He was in a small home reserved for ‘ difficult ’ juveniles , where the matron in charge reported that he wet his bed on occasion and had bad dreams but showed no other signs of disturbance . |
| 10 | And he had , kept getting bad , and he 'd had bad heads oh for years but he just thought that was , he was one of them people that got bad heads . |
| 11 | We also recognise that there is a tremendous problem for deferred pensioners in achieving reasonable transfer values er er er it 's a massive problem for them , even where they could find perhaps something to do with that money and a scheme that would do them better , not always , because there , there are people that give bad advice , but there are some that go into it very thoroughly and when it comes down to the bit the transfer value they receive makes it im practically impossible for them to do it . |
| 12 | In recent years , desperate to boost their operating profits and absorb bad loans , banks have begun charging corporate borrowers the full whack . |
| 13 | Clever painting can disguise faults in a room , lose unsightly features like too many doors , ugly pipes or angles , emphasize good proportions and minimize bad ones . |
| 14 | Unlike plosive , the release stage of affricates can never be omitted , eg which chairs contains no unexploded allophone as does bad dog . |
| 15 | A reward that stops bad behaviour . |