Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [prep] [art] bad [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've said to many years now about English weather in a sense it 's , it , it , it 's got a something of endearing quality , you do n't like going through the bad weather , but the fact is that we do get generally good weather |
| 2 | In Peking 's eyes , the Nobel Peace Prize could not have come at a worse time . |
| 3 | It could scarcely have come at a worse time . |
| 4 | This could not have come at a worse time , with the prospect in view of becoming an ‘ officer 's lady ’ . |
| 5 | For the CEGB , trying to sell nuclear reliability to an increasingly sceptical local population , this could hardly have come at a worse time . |
| 6 | She could not have come at a worse time ; a few hours after she arrived , she was a helpless burning hulk , with most of her passengers and crew dead . |
| 7 | It could not have come at a worse time for the Royal Family , almost on the eve of the wedding of Princess Anne to Commander Tim Laurence . |
| 8 | I 'm afraid it could n't have come at a worse time . |
| 9 | But he gave her a smouldering glance and said , ‘ This change in the weather could n't have come at a worse time . |
| 10 | ‘ In many ways , it could not have come at a worse time because the selectors are obviously considering alternatives after the defeat at Old Trafford and I would like to think I would be one of them . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ God witness , ’ said Llewelyn , drumming his long fingers on the arms of his chair in a hard-driven rhythm that was always a key to the stresses of his mind , ‘ it could not have come at a worse time . |
| 12 | His first injury in English football could not have come at a worst time . |
| 13 | Nor could it have occurred at a worse time . |
| 14 | It is idle to speculate on the source of leaks — that I did learn in my years in Government — but what was certain was that the Telegraph story could not have appeared at a worse time . |
| 15 | This could n't have happened at a worse time . |
| 16 | Her discovery in Paris could n't have happened at a worse time from that point of view , and she would just have to accept it . |
| 17 | I think kids can get influenced in a bad way by music . |
| 18 | Plainly Henry Ward Beecher , the great New York preacher of puritanism , should either have avoided having tumultuous extra-marital love-affairs or chosen a career which did not require him to be quite such a prominent advocate of sexual restraint ; though one can not entirely fail to sympathise with the bad luck which linked him in the mid-1870s with the beautiful feminist and advocate of free love , Victoria Woodhull , a lady whose convictions made privacy difficult . |