Example sentences of "[art] bad [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That in turn threatens the worst for the teams they face , Cardiff being the first to dip their toe in the water . |
| 2 | The aircraft was so silent , the atmosphere so eerie that as the medical team jumped from the ambulance they all began to fear the worst for the passengers inside — that they might not have survived the shock and impact of the crash landing . |
| 3 | If this is the face of your soul , then you are more evil than the worst of the stories about you . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It is likely we have not seen the worst of the conditions , ’ he added . |
| 5 | We needed to take with us clothes that were comfortable for travelling in , were easy to care for and were able to cope with the worst of the conditions . |
| 6 | However , as the torchlight danced ahead she gradually lost the worst of the fears that had at first threatened to turn her into a quivering jelly . |
| 7 | Certainly American Intelligence was unable to confirm the worst of the fears . |
| 8 | Although the relief work should prevent the recurrence of the worst of the floods , there can be no absolute guarantee . |
| 9 | By arguing that general managers would have to " harness the best of the consensus management approach and avoid the worst of the problems it can present " ( DHSS 1983 : 17 ) , Griffiths appeared to recognise the difficulties of managing a multiprofessional service while seriously underestimating the power of doctors in particular to resist being managed . |
| 10 | Jack nodded , his head bent over the worst of the wrists , suturing the ugly slash . |
| 11 | Not only do the Opposition always seek to make the worst of the figures , but they would make the figures very much worse if they ever had the opportunity to put their disastrous policies into effect . |
| 12 | Try to finish tidying borders before the worst of the frosts set in . |
| 13 | The fourth characteristic of each of the three countries is that they have had the luck to avoid the worst of the droughts which have badly affected agriculture and hydro-electric power supplies in many African countries in the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 14 | If possible , try to relax , lie down or put your feet up , until the worst of the symptoms are over . |
| 15 | But there is a great deal you can do to ease your misery , alleviate the worst of the symptoms and let you join in most of the fine weather fun without spending your days in a darkened room with a crate of Kleenex . |
| 16 | The worst of the lodgings in Rhyll consisted of one dirty room with decaying plaster and a leaking roof , over a coal merchant 's in the narrow part of the town . |
| 17 | He curled up to avoid if he could the worst of the blows . |
| 18 | Back and forth between its two summits , Points 265 and 295 , swayed the opposing forces , locked together in a crescendo of desperation that typified the worst of the months of ceaseless combat on the Left Bank . |
| 19 | She pushed through the cordon anyway , and stayed in church until 3am , through all the worst of the police violence . |
| 20 | GAME BOY £69.99 , Nintendo THIS far outsells the rest , and yet technically is the worst of the hand-helds . |
| 21 | She tried to hold up her long skirts with her free hand , grateful for the moment to the intermittent lightning which showed up the worst of the puddles ahead . |
| 22 | It was a hard , fast drive through the congested streets , the girl picking her way expertly through the back streets to avoid the worst of the jams . |
| 23 | Then she ran her fingers through the long strands of her hair , getting rid of the worst of the tangles and flicking it back from her face . |
| 24 | Mr Manning said the crime was not the worst in the courts ' calendar . |
| 25 | Anyone going beyond silent forms of disaffection had still to be prepared for the worst from the servants and supporters of a regime now in extremis . |
| 26 | If economic agents do not arrive at the solutions indicated by the economic model ( or if foreign policy decision-makers do not choose the strategies recommended by game theory ) , that is , one might say , so much the worse for the agents . |
| 27 | For this he was profoundly grateful and it stopped the worse of the panics . |