Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [art] bad [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be an absolutely true statement , but it does nothing whatsoever to give any guidance as to the ways in which performance may be improved and merely passes a message down the line that those at the top do not want to know the bad news and would like to dissociate themselves from it . |
| 2 | ‘ Randolph , you must help us quickly ’ he gasped , ‘ Rudolph , you dad has caught a bad cold and will not be able to pull the sleigh tonight . |
| 3 | If the hon. Gentleman wants to find a worse record in Scotland for waiting lists , he should look at the waiting lists that were left to us by the previous Labour Government . |
| 4 | Here the great house is not crumbling , as in Palladian , but has suffered the worse humiliation of being perverted into a preparatory school for boys : it is divided by baize doors and encircled by cinder paths . |
| 5 | The professor said : ‘ Judith has had a worse time than David because all of this is not of her making . |
| 6 | Cholesterol has had a bad press . |
| 7 | The Transport Secretary is a very genial Scot who has had a bad press but can take it with a smile . |
| 8 | School Social Worker is here and has had a bad day . |
| 9 | And to my recollection , no one for whom Prost has ever driven has had a bad word to say about him , save at the very end of Prost 's career with Renault , when other factors that had nothing to do with driving intruded . |
| 10 | ‘ If the Queen thinks she has had a bad year , look at me — my whole life has been pretty horribilis , ’ said Olive , from Birmingham . |
| 11 | She has had a bad time . |
| 12 | Not everybody has had a bad war . |
| 13 | No but I mean he has had a bad start |
| 14 | Over the years , quarrying generally has had a bad record for pay and conditions , and Penrhyn has a particularly infamous past . |
| 15 | The intensely religious former viceroy of India and wartime ambassador to Washington has had a bad write-up . |
| 16 | Their horses were fresher , and gradually closed on Sharpe who , to spare the mare 's strength , tried to avoid the worst hills , but he eventually found himself trapped in a long valley and was forced to put the mare at a steep grass slope which led to a bare skyline . |
| 17 | Networking , too , has got a bad name these days , as the scandalous links between Tokyo 's politicians , bureaucrats and businessmen are exposed . |
| 18 | Unfortunately Banbury has got a bad reputation among boat users in the past and the council is doing little to dispel it . |
| 19 | Boards A , B , C , D have all started , although D has got a bad start by not passing close behind the start boat . |
| 20 | Well no , he has got a bad throat an you know , he had a little lump in his throat , I think they thought it was cancer or something or a little growth , but you often get that in the throat . |
| 21 | He is also chairman of Lloyd 's , the insurance market which is expected to announce the worst loss in its 300-year history later this month . |
| 22 | But if he has , I do n't think it follows that Fathers and Children has become a bad book in his eyes , but rather , it is now not all that good . |
| 23 | Although such incidents rankled , the cutter crews ' sense of humour soon surfaced to erase the bad memories . |
| 24 | RIGHT Intelligent and loyal , the German Shepherd dog is another breed which , like the Rottweiler , has gained a bad reputation in the popular press . |
| 25 | Good technology has gained a bad name . |
| 26 | Any human being who has eaten a bad oyster , spent a night in agony , and vowed never to touch oysters again , will understand this . |
| 27 | After Kristallnacht he forbade further attacks on Jews and tried to have the worst ringleaders punished by the courts . |
| 28 | A firm of housebuilders has bucked the worst recession the industry 's ever known by increasing its profits by forty-five percent . |
| 29 | On May 26th a full-blown review of the matter was announced , but it has left a bad smell of abuse of power . |
| 30 | But also I want to stop a bad thing . ’ |