Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [verb] bad [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty five per cent of people who take the drug have bad effects . |
| 2 | A further reservoir at Crick had to be abandoned because of a diversion in the authorised line of the Crick Tunnel , forced upon the Company when the builders struck bad strata in 1912 . |
| 3 | He knew from prior disasters that the rock presaged bad rapids , but he had no other clue as to what lay ahead . |
| 4 | As the authors of a 1906 investigation of 6000 women workers in Birmingham put it , either ‘ women are compelled to work because their husbands are unsteady , drunken or idle , or the husbands develop bad habits because their wives remove the burden of responsibility from them ’ . |
| 5 | In other words , conscience begins to have marked effect , as the attitudes and strictures of which the child has bad experience during its upbringing are supported or modified by the beginnings of life within society , and is built into the sexual persona of the boy or girl ( increasingly meaningful terms at this stage ) which the child now finds itself to be . |
| 6 | Drama gives us the safety to make bad decisions and time to think about them constructively . |
| 7 | The need to avoid bad history is the reason the debate over the teaching of history in schools is so important : what is the proper balance between traditional concerns with royalty and battles as against the need to understand the great political movements of our time and the social and economic conditions which spawned them ? |
| 8 | Geoffrey Martel claimed the right to abolish bad customs ; William the Conqueror worked towards securing uniformity of custom across the whole duchy . |
| 9 | Thus in Cointat v. Myham ( 1913 C.A. ) where the plaintiff bought bad meat in the Central London Meat Market , it was held that any warranty as to the fitness or quality of the meat was excluded , because there was an established custom of the market to that effect . |
| 10 | Today 's rebels have good intentions and weedy records , The Pistols had bad intentions and brilliant records . |
| 11 | This will safeguard against the student acquiring bad habits in these features of pronunciation . |
| 12 | People like to present good news , like to present themselves favourably and of course organisations , many organisations , do in practice have a y'know shoot the messenger y'know if the messenger brings bad news , shoot the messenger er philosophy . |
| 13 | Why should the state subsidise bad employers in that way ? |
| 14 | The survey examined bad debt experience , credit periods and credit management compared with three years earlier . |
| 15 | CHILDREN are allowed to divorce their parents , so why ca n't the public divorce bad politicians ? |
| 16 | Unfortunately , the gents had bad luck . |
| 17 | Chuters had lost part of their workforce to the war — the man in the apron had bad feet — but there was not so much work around for those who remained . |
| 18 | The mouth of the face had bad breath . |
| 19 | Occasionally a director gives bad direction . |
| 20 | The superstition that the third light from a match brings bad luck apparently originates from the first world war , when German soldiers in the opposite trench would notice the first light , take aim at the second and fire at the third . |
| 21 | A petition denying bad behaviour on the union side has even been signed by one of the managers . |
| 22 | The conclusion of the tale is : ( For this reason is this told , my lords : a robber makes bad company . ) |
| 23 | Once , when a messenger brought bad news to Cuchulain , the hero let him go in peace . |
| 24 | But his mind was quick , and his memories were all intact ; and the longing never really went away , that awful persistent longing that could find outlet only in frustration and anger , and a wish to do bad things ; to hurt and to insult like he did now while he waited for David to concede defeat and agree to take him to the auction after all . |
| 25 | TWO academics , who clearly did not do much of their research in the North-East , have written a book called Bad Language . |
| 26 | There was always a way to beat bad weather blues and enjoy ourselves . |