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 . |