Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] [art] bad [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know you 're going through a bad time , but my main concern is Maureen . ’ |
| 2 | They 're going through a bad period and they 'll be looking for a positive result as well . |
| 3 | Did she see me pour the Finish 'Em into the punch ? ‘ I know we 're going through a bad patch at the moment . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You 're heading for a bad attack of sunburn . ’ |
| 5 | ’ — then you 're talking of the worst catcher ever not signed by the New York Giants . ’ |
| 6 | The lighting cameraman may have been going through a bad patch , or simply been driven crazy by the sort of director who ca n't make up their mind about anything . |
| 7 | Soviet-American relations have been going through a bad patch since the beginning of the year , troubled by the crackdown on the Baltic states , differences in the Gulf war and an arms-control quarrel . |
| 8 | But after plunging towards the relegation zone with just four points from the previous 21 , he admitted : ‘ We have been going through a bad time and We needed this win . ’ |
| 9 | Above-average yields can sometimes be spotted on the convertibles of companies that are going through a bad patch , and these more risky recovery situations appeal to speculators . |
| 10 | That 's the end of the shipping forecast but just to remind you that Radio Four long wave in Northern Scotland , Orkney and Shetland is off the air as the bulkhead transmitter has been affected by the bad weather but as soon as it 's repaired we will repeat the shipping forecast for the areas affected that 'll be on long wave only and F M will continue with scheduled programmes . |
| 11 | She has been denounced as a bad influence on young girls ( who adore her ) , and Pepsi cancelled her commercials . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | We have to remember in terms of timing that we started with the Gulf War and then moved into perhaps what will be seen as the worst recession since the '30s . |
| 14 | Unfortunately the same could not be said of the bad weather ruling which reared its ugly head too often . |
| 15 | This means that an action can not be founded on a bad cause . |
| 16 | And the on-going tabloid obsession with Charles and Diana 's marriage : ‘ Oh , they must be going through a bad patch . |
| 17 | Such progression may of course merely be preempted by the worse prognosis of HIV disease itself . |
| 18 | You 'll be known as a bad girl even if you 're as pure as the Prophet 's daughter . ’ |
| 19 | In a sense , greater values are at stake in the operation of aircraft , ships , and railways , because many lives are involved , more than would normally be risked by the bad driving of a motor vehicle ( although there is an important exception here in the operation of buses and coaches , which are more akin to planes , boats , and trains ) . |
| 20 | They might thus be characterised as the two Ugly Sisters who through their actions succeeded in making the British economy the Cinderella of the industrialised world — and the USA could be cast as the Bad Fairy who ensured that the Ugly Sisters always got their way . |
| 21 | Notice that the determination of such rates presupposes an understanding of what counts in a culture as ‘ deliberate ’ , and that a high rate need not necessarily be viewed as a bad thing by the culture concerned . |
| 22 | As he said himself : ‘ We do n't want to be sitting on a bad result for the next 3 ½ months . ’ |
| 23 | Because of low incomes , high unemployment and plain discrimination black people are forced into the worst housing . |
| 24 | ‘ Middlesbrough were going through a bad patch at the time . |
| 25 | FitzGerald discovered that his Cheltenham runners were suffering from a bad blood count after they were tested on Monday but still decided to run them . |
| 26 | And if all that was n't reason enough to stay in bed in the morning , it proceeded to snow on our parade : Esquire 's opening festivities were blanketed by the worst storm to hit London since 1963 . |
| 27 | But the stench of diesel oil gave away the fact that the fish had not been killed by the bad weather . |
| 28 | Perhaps in closing erm I would just er repeat with your permission Ma'am er a piece from your nineteen ninety er presidential address and it says , as yachtsmen we must care for the environment , it is fair to say that most do but images are created by the bad news . |
| 29 | TO ENTER Romania is to sink into a bad dream . |
| 30 | In the decade since then , the club has had a brief taste of the glory days but now is immersed in the worst crisis in its hundred year history . |