Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adv] bad [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This idiom encourages the very bad habit of believing that life is going to be as neatly packaged as a school textbook . |
| 2 | Oxford has a particularly bad problem when it comes to homelessness . |
| 3 | If a person retained at your expense has a significantly worse record in terms of attendance or misconduct , it will be worth drawing the matter to your employer 's attention to see whether his view changes upon mature reflection . |
| 4 | He has a very bad temper , ’ Ana informed her , laughing and obviously relaxing again . |
| 5 | Peter White of Midland Bank was less convinced , complaining of the failure of some large firms to adhere to a strict off-limits policy , and described an even worse practice of advancing a candidate who has undertaken to engage the headhunter involved at a later date if he or she lands the job . |
| 6 | Jim said : ‘ We had to tackle the traditionally bad image of train catering and we really have come a tremendous way as far as quality is concerned . |
| 7 | and there 'd a much worse instance similarly with the I P R at when forty two people had signed up for something and only five appeared |
| 8 | Everyone else — particularly your wife ! — came a very bad second . ’ |
| 9 | There were plenty of excuses ( she had endured a very bad journey to Paris , the going was appallingly heavy , and her regular jockey William Lane was injured and could not take the ride ) , and she resumed her winning ways later that month with an easy stroll in the Free Handicap at Newmarket . |
| 10 | You have made a very bad decision and something must be done . |
| 11 | Addressing the Supreme Soviet on Oct. 6 , Yeltsin singled out for criticism the Ministers of Foreign Economic Relations , the Economy and Industry , but gave a general endorsement of the government , saying that " under these conditions , any other government would do an even worse job " . |
| 12 | Even so , Britain has made an unusually bad fist of the regulatory structure set up under the 1986 Financial Services Act ; the outcome has been cumbersome and ineffective . |
| 13 | Your recent history shows the very worst effects of cruelty , jealousy , dishonesty , and madness ! ’ |
| 14 | Not only is he fun to look at with his bright colours , he 's very durable too and more than able to withstand the very worst kind of punishment little ones are capable of dishing out ! |
| 15 | But Fidway 's Cheltenham supporters can also claim a little bad luck — the winner Royal Gait bumped him just after the final flight . |
| 16 | I mean , to open it , they , they just sort of did n't twig , but like , they 're the sort of people that wine , cos Mark 's got a really bad influence on these people , he gets them he gets everybody really drunk . |
| 17 | Erm what I wanted to say is , erm , in response to the lady in the red , was that a lot of feminists have a lot to answer for because , in the sense , men erm can be discriminat , well not discriminated but we can say things about men which are generalizations , whereas if a , one man says one generalized thing about a woman , then he 's just , you know chauvinists is everything , and he 's got a really bad name to him , so I think it 's got to be looked at from both sides . |
| 18 | But like it 's different if you 've got a really bad cold and sometimes you have to , you ca n't like sometimes you can hide it but I do n't go in front of someone I always do it discreetly . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've got a really bad headache … |
| 20 | when she was due to come and she 's still got a very bad chest |
| 21 | Because ‘ Big T ’ , Tom , had got a very bad record for sacking caddies , I was very apprehensive . |
| 22 | Some people have got a real bad Nottingham accent . |
| 23 | Free-electron lasers on the whole have had a rather bad press . |
| 24 | Sometimes if I 've had a particularly bad day and I go out there thinking I 'm going to have a particularly bad gig I 'll have a really great one . |
| 25 | In the history of sex the otherwise innocent ear has had a pretty bad deal . |
| 26 | The funny thing was this happened yards from where I had had a very bad motorcycle crash ten years before . |
| 27 | Therefore , one further reason why policemen dislike dealing with rape might well be that they feel uneasy about having to ask the very personal questions which are necessary in order for the victim to be taken seriously , and on the occasion quoted above the sergeant went on to say that as a result of asking for these very personal details policemen ‘ have had a very bad rap over dealing with rape cases ’ ( FN 16/3/87 , p. 14 ) . |
| 28 | Whatever they were talking about had had a very bad effect on the Quigleys . |
| 29 | I think she must have had a really bad stroke . |
| 30 | This description , at the very start of our literature , sets the tone for accounts of wetlands , which through the ages have had a consistently bad press . |