Example sentences of "on the worst " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pioneering work-outs quickly developed into savage attacks on the worst examples of corporate bureaucracy — ten signatures on a minor requisition , artificial dress codes . |
| 2 | This weekend Labour and Tory strategists agreed on the worst of them : the triumphalism that crept into Labour 's Sheffield rally , a week before polling day ; the decision to push constitutional change to the top of the agenda in the final week . |
| 3 | Other doctors were putting compresses of saline solution on the worst burns . |
| 4 | We will continue our Estate Action and Housing Action Trust programmes which concentrate resources on the worst council estates . |
| 5 | The theme is redemption through battle and Aldrich 's raw , violent , magnificently acted movie shows how war relied on the worst instincts in men to achieve the best results . |
| 6 | So often I have been forced to submit to playing on the worst courts or not at all . |
| 7 | Overall , these families frequently tend to be placed in the worst housing or on the worst estates , partly perhaps because of their inability to pay higher rents , and partly because local authorities have always been inclined to allocate poor people and slum dwellers to particular estates ( Gray , 1979 ) . |
| 8 | Malcolm McLaren too believed that groups and management should always be on the worst possible terms with the record company , to avoid co-option and defeat . |
| 9 | I saw that my house was on the worst side of the island . |
| 10 | On the worst of occasions he felt he could no longer communicate with God . |
| 11 | In New York the Dow Jones index of stockmarket prices fell 508 points to 1,738.41 on Friday 16 October 1987 , a decline of 22.6% — almost double the 13% per cent drop seen on the worst day of the 1929 stockmarket crash . |
| 12 | Sankara 's government launched a series of onslaughts on the worst ills of chronic underdevelopment : ‘ commando ’ campaigns to immunize children against the common killer diseases , to roll back the desert by planting trees , to encourage peasant farmers and drive towards self-sufficiency in food . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , the ground crews refuelled , re-armed , and slapped patches on the worst holes . |
| 14 | On the worst days , the radiation was twice as bad as any measured since the programme began in 1988 , and scientists speculate that it may be the highest ever experienced since the ozone shield developed one billion years ago . |
| 15 | Coun Ken Walker ( Lib Dem ) said : ‘ The state of the river is better than it was two or three years ago but I would like to see more resources spent on the worst sections ; in the town centre . |