Example sentences of "[be] worse than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless it is very well managed , a ley will soon tumble down to indigenous species on a poor soil structure , and the end result will be worse than the beginning . |
| 2 | Nothing could be worse than the life I was leading at present , I thought , where the pressures from being homeless and unemployed were likely to force me into a series of criminal acts which would result in prison , or vagrancy at the least . |
| 3 | Disguising his real feelings he wrote cheerfully , telling them that it was better here than The Hague , as if to say that nothing could be worse than the hell of being unloved . |
| 4 | The cure may be worse than the disease . |
| 5 | Half-heard rows may distress them more ; the fantasy of what is going on downstairs may well be worse than the reality . |
| 6 | Nothing they could do now would be worse than the fear as the high gate fell like a guillotine behind him . |
| 7 | Indeed , substitute child care might be worse than the situation from which the child has been removed . |
| 8 | They would also be worse than the ruckus stirred up by Clarke 's remarks on firstly , the improbability of Labour being able to renationalise a privatised water industry , and secondly , the worthlessness of the Scottish financial industry . |