Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] worse [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In Peking 's eyes , the Nobel Peace Prize could not have come at a worse time .
2 It could scarcely have come at a worse time .
3 This could not have come at a worse time , with the prospect in view of becoming an ‘ officer 's lady ’ .
4 For the CEGB , trying to sell nuclear reliability to an increasingly sceptical local population , this could hardly have come at a worse time .
5 She could not have come at a worse time ; a few hours after she arrived , she was a helpless burning hulk , with most of her passengers and crew dead .
6 It could not have come at a worse time for the Royal Family , almost on the eve of the wedding of Princess Anne to Commander Tim Laurence .
7 I 'm afraid it could n't have come at a worse time .
8 But he gave her a smouldering glance and said , ‘ This change in the weather could n't have come at a worse time .
9 ‘ In many ways , it could not have come at a worse time because the selectors are obviously considering alternatives after the defeat at Old Trafford and I would like to think I would be one of them . ’
10 ‘ God witness , ’ said Llewelyn , drumming his long fingers on the arms of his chair in a hard-driven rhythm that was always a key to the stresses of his mind , ‘ it could not have come at a worse time .
11 ‘ I 'll show ya round with great pleasure , ’ said the affable manager , ‘ but I ca n't think of a worse theatre than this for your show . ’
12 I ca n't think of a worse crime .
13 GET MARRIED I CA N'T THINK OF A WORSE TORTURE S.
14 He led on the easy bits , followed and pushed on the worse sections .
15 Nor could it have occurred at a worse time .
16 Such progression may of course merely be preempted by the worse prognosis of HIV disease itself .
17 The Court held on the one hand that the protection of the Directive was a matter of public policy and so the worker could not trade away his right under the Directive to the maintenance of the same terms and conditions , even if ‘ the employee obtains new benefits in compensation for the disadvantages resulting from an amendment to his contract of employment so that , taking the matter as a whole , he is not placed in a worse position than before ’ ( point 15 ) .
18 Provided the springboard doctrine is sensibly applied and injunctions granted only in the clearest of cases so that the recipient of the information is not effectively placed in a worse position than if he had not received it , the interests of both the supplier of the information and the recipient can be satisfied .
19 The longer this situation goes on the worse things are going to get .
20 She said : ‘ I then realised there were people just like me , and people who had gone through a worse hell than me . ’
21 This has made it difficult for Britain to compete on the world market , and this in turn has eventually led to a worse slump and level of unemployment than would otherwise have been the case had there been no political intervention in the working of the naturally self-regulating free economy of the market .
22 It is idle to speculate on the source of leaks — that I did learn in my years in Government — but what was certain was that the Telegraph story could not have appeared at a worse time .
23 This will ensure that we help the Group come through the worse recession in our industry for many years , and that we are in place and able to contribute to the future upturn in the market .
24 As Mr. Ratcliffe pointed out , others suffer similarly and he gave as a worse example a village called Iwade , situated on the main road to Sheerness Docks .
25 Yeah , like the electricity , but your chickens come home to roost when your overtime goes , when your job goes and you take on a commitment and they never , the last ten , fifteen , twenty , twenty five years and they 've never ever , ever taken on a commitment like that before , when it 's presented with just the roses around it , everything 's sweetness and light and roses and the other side is n't really put , put to you , think of the worse scenario , you 're out of a job , what can you do ?
26 Yet it is hard to think of a worse ordeal for a political leader than being urged by the party of which he is head to sever relations with his wife .
27 I 've heard also of courses of injections which remove it in the short term but result in a worse incidence of cellulite after the treatment has worn off .
28 Whatever the truth , the unwelcome publicity could not come at a worse time for Mercedes — just as it is launching its new top-of-the-range ‘ S ’ model after 12 years of development .
29 Newspaper reports on 12th March that the Bank of Ireland is to shed 600 of its staff over the coming years could not come at a worse time for the economy .
30 This could n't have happened at a worse time .
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