Example sentences of "make it worse " in BNC.
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| 1 | Urban motorways have proved no solution to Britain 's chronic traffic congestion — indeed some say they have made it worse . |
| 2 | The ‘ new conservatives ’ have made it worse by arguing , incorrectly as it happens , that since the children of the élite for the most part ( and for both genetic and environmental reasons ) become the élite , then the elaborate process of selection may as well be shortened and a plain hereditary principle reintroduced . |
| 3 | Mr. Clark had to get a bricklayer to repair the walls that were broken and he complained that although the schoolmaster was in attendance the whole time , the boys had made it worse than it was before . |
| 4 | Not only have they made it worse , they knew they would ; even if they genuinely thought their policies were somehow better for Britain as a whole , they knew damn well they 'd put hundreds of thousands of people out of work , and Saatchi & Saatchi must have known that , too , if they 'd bothered to think . |
| 5 | And now we 've made it a fire door it 's made it worse . |
| 6 | She 'd made it worse . |
| 7 | and the drought of course has made it worse |
| 8 | I should 've she made it worse , she started slapping her jaw you should n't hit your man one punch jaw and mouth , his jaw and nose and everything . |
| 9 | Euro-American society is already suffering from a bad self-esteem problem , and I expect that an uncritical belief in the moral supremacy of nature will make it worse . |
| 10 | ‘ Do n't make it worse , ’ Rab said . |
| 11 | If you have fractured a bone or fallen and damaged your back , do not move at all , you could make it worse . |
| 12 | That would make it worse . ’ |
| 13 | Then Carrie jumped aside as a passing bus threw up some slush from the gutter , and as she brushed her hands down over the bottom of her coat , she said , ‘ You 'd think they did it on purpose , ’ and as he went to assist her she stayed his hands , saying , ‘ It 'll only make it worse . |
| 14 | ‘ Avoiding the problem will make it worse I know I can face it ’ . |
| 15 | So it 's caused by foetal position and there 's something that can make it worse , you know the mother erm inside erm the womb there 's a bag of fluid that the baby floats in |
| 16 | Extreme care should therefore be taken in prescribing them at all : if the recipient has addictive disease these drugs will make it worse . |
| 17 | But I knew I was going to East Kilbride I thought , This is stupid , it 's only gon na make it worse . |
| 18 | Oh it 'll make it worse . |
| 19 | Not worrying about it too much because that 'll just make it worse . |
| 20 | It does make it worse and if you 've got a lot of things that you 're supposed to be doing , you just think well I ca n't do all of them . |
| 21 | Did it make it worse when you knew the victim ? |
| 22 | Courses do not always help to get rid of this feeling and can even make it worse . |
| 23 | Movement will make it worse . ’ |
| 24 | Do n't scratch — you know it will only make it worse ! ’ |
| 25 | ‘ You 'll just make it worse . |
| 26 | We could make it worse by insisting on the sort of minimum conditions put forward by the Labour party , conditions that would disadvantage the very people whom Labour says they are designed to protect . |
| 27 | The resident added : ‘ It is a very dangerous access at the moment and any increase in the volume of traffic would make it worse . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Do n't you know you 'll only make it worse ? ’ |
| 29 | It would make it worse , ’ he said . |
| 30 | Why does it make it worse ? |