Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] bad name " in BNC.

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1 Both activities can be very enjoyable But neither activity will get you very far in your quest for fitness , and to be honest they give walking a bad name .
2 Bringing a bad name on two families .
3 However , as timeshare was getting a bad name , the holiday cottages grew into sixty corporate lodges aimed at attracting Japanese purchasers .
4 Erm Mao was worried that as , i in the course of the , the latter stages of directive and the there had been abuses of the system by Party members and that had led to the Party getting a bad name with the peasants and the way to rectify that was to publish the Communist Party membership so everybody in the village would know who was a Communist Party member and they would be able to see , Mao believed , that on the whole Party members had behaved properly , they had n't exploited the situation for their own advantage and where they have they would be , there would be a with them to correct .
5 And the the firm was very annoyed at hearing this name getting banded about because it was getting a bad name .
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