Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [art] bad [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | " A tomboy 's like a whistling woman and a crowing hen , who can only come to a bad end . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Now he just brawls with the bad guys . |
| 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 | Yesterday seemed like a bad dream , but when he went downstairs , he saw the covered picture . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
| 11 | He also guested on The Bad Seeds ' ‘ Kicking Against The Pricks ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ He 's probably come at a bad time , ’ said Pool 's longest serving player . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The long skeletal head and ghostly hands seemed now to belong to a bad dream . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | Heavy teaching loads are another fact of life for the modern German academics and are often quoted as a bad influence on research . |
| 17 | Nizan notes : Perhaps if you are squeamish , you can not appreciate this world where the good guys are ruthlessly divided from the bad guys , this world of Good and Evil , this Dickensian liking for the triumph of the good guys . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | It is currently going through a bad patch of such uncertainty . |