Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] bad news " in BNC.

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1 Sorry , old boy , you 're bad news , ca n't help . ’
2 They are bad news in a block of flats , and they ca n't be relied on .
3 He does n't understand futures , but he knows they 're bad news .
4 It 's bad news about Cram , ’ he said .
5 It 's bad news around here sir , and the bridge seems to attract suicides .
6 That will spare Italy 's World Cup blushes — but it 's bad news for Scotland , their next opponents , who will now have to face him at Ibrox on November 18 .
7 TD lorries shift everything from fish fingers to boxes of tissues and when goods do n't move in the shops it 's bad news for truckers .
8 It 's bad news for the Jamaican economy , but the greenery surrounding the capital loves it .
9 A I 'm afraid it 's bad news as far as Windows is concerned .
10 ‘ What should I do — if it 's bad news ? ’
11 It 's bad news is n't it ?
12 It 's bad news , it 's bad news on a time basis .
13 It 's bad news , it 's bad news on a time basis .
14 It 's bad news . ’
15 It 's bad news love .
16 It 's bad news having accidents .
17 I 'm afraid it 's bad news
18 It 's bad news being busy ?
19 Trouble is , if there is n't anybody in it 's bad news is n't it ?
20 Even though it 's bad news overall that the total number of incidents have increased again , there is good new in that there seems to be this increase in awareness and realization and commitment on the part of The Farming Union , the farmers and the water authorities to take the problem seriously and tackle it .
21 Well that 's right , yes , and the other thing as well , I should n't really be telling you this , , because it 's bad news for us but , if you in fact write a long , rambling press release , what you will find is that the journalist will almost , almost certainly go three-quarters of the way down it to find the real story which is hidden in there , and occasionally that real story is purposely hidden down in there , and you know you look at any council minutes , and the real story is always , inevitably hidden down there , because it 's the bit that somebody does n't want people to know about , and so journalists are naturally trained to go down the bit to find out what 's it about .
22 We still fall well short of that , I mean er it 's bad news that anyone is addicted to drugs but what is important is that we should actually know who is and so we can help them .
23 Only the closed minded can pretend that it 's bad news that more people can afford to travel , that was once the province of the few , is now open to the majority .
24 But if it is bad news for borrowers , investors have never had it so good .
25 Mr Allan , who likened his wife 's campaign to that of the father of murdered British woman Julie Ward in Kenya , said : ‘ It 's most important we have something positive even though it is bad news . ’
26 It is bad news when youngsters begin to play truant from school .
27 But while rightsizing may be good news for end-users , it is bad news for many of the established giants of the IT industry .
28 It is bad news for Wales .
29 You stay away from that man ; he is bad news .
30 He 's bad news .
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