Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [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 , perhaps most important of all , companies had shown themselves unwilling to admit to failure or believe bad news , leading to deeper difficulties . |
| 3 | This remedy may be needed after a fright , rage , vexation , jealousy or hearing bad news . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Her social worker said the stealing was also the result of boredom and keeping bad company . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | Embarrassed bank officials agreed not to call in police rather than lose the entire haul and face bad publicity . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In recent years , desperate to boost their operating profits and absorb bad loans , banks have begun charging corporate borrowers the full whack . |
| 10 | 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 . |