Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [art] bad [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Provided the springboard doctrine is sensibly applied and injunctions granted only in the clearest of cases so that the recipient of the information is not effectively placed in a worse position than if he had not received it , the interests of both the supplier of the information and the recipient can be satisfied . |
| 2 | Obviously people who are merely going through a bad patch ( anxiety state ) are easier to assist in the process of change , because they have greater resources , than individuals who have always been anxious ( anxiety trait ) . |
| 3 | " A tomboy 's like a whistling woman and a crowing hen , who can only come to a bad end . |
| 4 | Traditionally , therefore , building societies have been extremely reluctant to grant women mortgages on their own , since they are generally regarded as a bad risk on the grounds of their present or future income . |
| 5 | But customers , too , have only recently begun to see the big picture : IBM is not just going through a bad patch , it is in serious , perhaps critical , trouble . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Persuading recalcitrant joints to co-operate is best left to a bad dream . |
| 8 | Sir Roger was still recovering from a bad car accident just before Christmas . |
| 9 | Firstly the price of admission went up by 50pc at the beginning of the season a lot of money in an area which still has among the worst unemployment rates in mainland Britain ( and the lowest amount of disposable income per head of population if we are getting into statistics ) . |
| 10 | Yesterday seemed like a bad dream , but when he went downstairs , he saw the covered picture . |
| 11 | ‘ You 're still listening to a bad PA , the music 's blowing all over the place , people are crashed out in the mud … it 's exactly the same ! ’ |
| 12 | ‘ He 's probably come at a bad time , ’ said Pool 's longest serving player . |
| 13 | Then , against the advice of all , he embarks upon a final desperate attempt , which he later describes as the worst mistake he ever made . |
| 14 | Cave was older than the rest of the party , and the only one with knowledge of Iran ; he also suffered from a bad back , and must have landed with a fierce combination of jet-lag , suspicion and pain . |
| 15 | The long skeletal head and ghostly hands seemed now to belong to a bad dream . |
| 16 | In relation to the sentence stem ‘ A girl and her mother … ’ , girls often produce responses like ‘ often go through a bad patch for a year but once they learn to understand each other , become the best of friends ’ or ‘ can help each other with their problems ’ . |
| 17 | Heavy teaching loads are another fact of life for the modern German academics and are often quoted as a bad influence on research . |
| 18 | This has made it difficult for Britain to compete on the world market , and this in turn has eventually led to a worse slump and level of unemployment than would otherwise have been the case had there been no political intervention in the working of the naturally self-regulating free economy of the market . |
| 19 | LEEDS UNIVERSITY must surely rank at the worst venue in Europe . |
| 20 | LEEDS UNIVERSITY must surely rank at the worst venue in Europe . |
| 21 | This last point is sometimes regarded as a bad fault in basic training , but it is almost inevitable in a long-ranging competition reverse punch . |
| 22 | Unfortunately he usually comes to nothing , either falling into the bad habit of accuracy , or frequents the society of the aged and well informed ’ ( ‘ Decay of Lying ’ , 294 ) . |
| 23 | It is currently going through a bad patch of such uncertainty . |