Example sentences of "[noun] [be] bad [subord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there 's a reason for the collapse in sales , it 's not simply that acts are worse than before , but that there are fewer teenagers to buy their records . |
| 2 | The light was bad as well , he complained . |
| 3 | Consciousness of all these pressures did not improve Michael Banks 's concentration and , together with fatigue , ensured that the lines were worse than ever on the Friday afternoon run . |
| 4 | The scale of disrepair disclosed by the survey affects all tenure sectors although , as usual , the condition in the private rented sector is worse than elsewhere ; for example , one in six dwellings in the private sector was found to be unfit for human habitation … |
| 5 | The ache in his bones was worse than before . |
| 6 | ‘ Things are worse than ever , ’ thought poor Alice . |
| 7 | Now , the spasms were worse than ever . |
| 8 | Dr Mostafa Tolba , executive director of the UN Environment Programme ( UNEP ) , has said that damage to the ozone layer is worse than previously thought and has proposed advancing a ban on ozone-destroying chemicals by four years to the start of 1996 . |
| 9 | And so the resentment is worse than ever . |
| 10 | But the time comes when control is lost again and on each occasion the disease and its consequences are worse than previously . |
| 11 | The winter storms at sea that year were worse than ever , and so the Star never arrived in Georgia , and nobody saw the captain or his men again . |
| 12 | Clerk of the course Nick Lees said : ‘ There is standing water in the straight and the weather forecast is bad as well . ’ |
| 13 | Her frown was worse than ever . |
| 14 | The injury was worse than before . |