Example sentences of "with the worst " in BNC.

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1 More to the point , you fail to mention the fact that the Government has offered talks on a pay structure which would ensure that those ambulance workers with a high skill level , who tend to be those who deal with the worst accidents , are paid more to reflect their training .
2 The Government says it will use the new system to allocate resources to those councils with the worst housing problems .
3 It dominates the central belt of the country and maintains a huge dependent clientele , whom it has rewarded with the worst housing estates in Europe .
4 Amelia was in there , jostling and tugging with the worst of them .
5 In the second case one identifies oneself with the worst aspects of the society .
6 Poland , with the worst financial problems within Eastern Europe , has had to delay construction of its first nuclear station at Zarnowiec which will have a total capacity of 4880 MW .
7 In regions with the worst topography and climate ( e. g .
8 Far more than is suspected are inefficient wives responsible for the misery of many back-street homes , and it is perhaps more than a coincidence that some of the Lancashire towns with the worst repute for their high rate of infant mortality have no girls ' club within their areas .
9 Salford and Stirling were faced with the worst haemorrhages .
10 At the first hearing , she had a gloomy , slit-mouthed sidekick with the worst case of acne I 've seen since I gave up computer programming , but this time he was n't there .
11 These radical discussions during gang labour on the roads , and smuggling paled into insignificance when compared with the worst of all seen by the investigators , the widespread encouragement of idleness and vice by regular poor relief in cash .
12 ‘ While the visible signs of recession remain , there must be cause for hope that at last a framework for recovery is falling into place with the worst of the recession behind us , ’ he said .
13 There 's a crate of champagne for the reader with the worst tale to tell .
14 With the worst possible timing , Mildred turned the corner just as Miss Hardbroom strode through the door leading from the yard .
15 ‘ You think you buy into somewhere crime can not reach and then it hits you with the worst kind . ’
16 The countries with the worst human rights records were China , Cuba , Haiti , Iraq , North Korea , Libya , Mauritania , Myanmar , Somalia , Sudan and Syria , according to the PCC .
17 Afterwards she admitted : ‘ That ranks right up there with the worst losses of my career .
18 News on Sunday ended up with the worst of both worlds — a paper with metropolitan Right-On concerns , produced in a city that had fallen off the edge of the Right-On world .
19 The spy-glass , though splendidly gimballed to deal with the worst vagaries of pitching and rolling , was quite incapable of coping with even the mildest vibration which , more often than not , produced a very fuzzy photograph indeed .
20 The danger was that the department would end up with the worst of both worlds — an integrated service provided in a hastily planned way , foisted on staff unprepared for the challenge and lacking the positive commitment and support that is so necessary from specialist staff and their managers .
21 Indeed , other things being equal and accepting the other aspects of the RAWP formula , the SMRs suggest that the worst region requires 24 per cent more resources than the best ; each of the three morbidity indicators would suggest that much greater disparities in health and therefore funding needs existed , with the worst region requiring respectively , 110 , 33 or 46 per cent more resources than the best .
22 For example , Bracey ( 1958 ) in a study of 375 Somerset parishes found that , in general , the more remote and less well serviced parishes were those with the worst and most persistent depopulation , and findings like this only encouraged the further development of theories of settlement concentration in the 1960s although these can also be traced back as far as 1918 , when Peake ( 1918 ) advocated equally-spaced villages with populations of between 1,000 and 1,500 people .
23 Thus the fund allocations for 1982–3 to the four regions with the best hospital provisions — South-West Thames region , South-East Thames , North-East Thames and North-West Thames — were the lowest among the fourteen hospital regions in the country , while the fund allocations to the regions with the worst hospital provisions — Northern , North-Western , Trent — were among the highest .
24 Regional measures under the then Conservative government , wrote the Cambridge Economic Policy Review in 1980 , ‘ are increasingly limited to areas with the worst social problems , implying greater reliance on the operation of market forces to produce ‘ convergence ’
25 He himself was beginning to ache as though stretched on the rack , with the worst still to come .
26 ‘ We liked the idea of taking the field with the worst reputation for stimulating unnecessary materialism and see if it could be turned around ’ , he says .
27 We needed to take with us clothes that were comfortable for travelling in , were easy to care for and were able to cope with the worst of the conditions .
28 ‘ You are all the same , ’ I had said — reducing her from an individual to a stereotype , lumping her in with the worst of the cherry berets .
29 His omnipresent friend is a Great Dane with the worst case of eczema a dog could have .
30 Today Britain is notorious as the country with the worst food in the world — and therefore the worst record of suffering and premature death from non-infectious diseases .
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