Example sentences of "have been a bad [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It would 've been a bad time for t'road between t'two farms ti be blocked wi' snow . ’ |
| 2 | Their most important check is on whether someone has been a bad payer in the past . |
| 3 | It has been a bad autumn for birds of prey and five kestrels have been brought into the sanctuary in an emaciated condition . |
| 4 | IT HAS been a bad week for the BBC . |
| 5 | Moving across the Adriatic , you comment that ‘ it has been a bad week for Bosnia 's Muslims and a shaming one for the outside world . ’ |
| 6 | I think I got that because of my tracheotomy — I think I probably should have gotten it before , but I 'd been a bad girl . |
| 7 | He had n't looked after her properly , he 'd been a bad father . |
| 8 | It could n't have been a worse morning for the Queen of England to visit us . |
| 9 | Some might think a little delayed public spending on roads would not have been a bad idea at that time . |
| 10 | I would n't say there was much between the two teams apart from the first half here this afternoon when United , I have n't seen United dominate a side so much for a very long time , and really , I mean you were here Peter , three or four nil at half time would not have been a bad reflection on United 's performance in any way at all . |
| 11 | ‘ It must have been a bad dream , Oliver , ’ said Harry , breathless after running through the fields . |
| 12 | Seriously though , it must have been a bad time . |
| 13 | On the other hand , if ATP wanted to demonstrate that they really are interested in the welfare of more than just the top 75 , as some of their lower-ranked members have recently suggested , then helping Birmingham through its current difficulties , which one hopes are only temporary , would not have been a bad thing . |
| 14 | Whatever it was that had happened between Richard Ward and his wife , it must have been a bad thing because , to Beth 's mind , it had brought nothing good . |
| 15 | Which , to Charles ' mind , would n't have been a bad thing . |
| 16 | Her assessment of me changed from one of total hostility to a slightly puzzled statement that my experience with these doctors , in her own words ‘ may prove , after all , not to have been a bad thing for this peculiar chap — half high principle and half unashamed pragmatism — to have been brought into personal dealings with this autocratic profession and to experience at first hand the kind of behaviour that has been driving Ministers of Health to despair for years ’ . |
| 17 | Well , he seems to have been a bad lot , and maybe nobody will miss him , but I do n't like it . |
| 18 | The late 1920s and '30s seems to have been a bad time in the Woodchester area for fires . |
| 19 | A merger often turns out to have been a bad move for one of the firms involved . |
| 20 | Like 1929 , 1949 had been a bad year for believing that God was on America 's side . |
| 21 | For the industry as a whole , however , 1990 had been a bad year , with the Gulf war scuppering much of the expected sales growth , and planned new capacity raising the spectre of price wars and poor returns for manufacturers . |
| 22 | It had been a bad year for Cliff , and it was as easy to blame the Council as anyone . |
| 23 | The weather became very bitter up here and because it had been a bad summer I had kept two of my cattle in the byre by the house all the time . |
| 24 | ‘ When I saw death coming towards me I began to think it had been a bad business for me to kill that guy . ’ |
| 25 | Sendei realized immediately that from every possible viewpoint , the destruction of the discod had been a bad move . |
| 26 | You 've been a bad influence . |
| 27 | * So I 've been a bad boy at times but they reckon I ca n't walk out on a job if I 'm in the Jungle and Matt 's temperamental which means he does n't normally work unless they give him a hamper full of white powder but he seems to have kicked it and there are n't too many dealers swinging through the trees like Tarzan out here . |
| 28 | See if you 've been a bad boy . |
| 29 | ‘ I have been a bad person , ’ he said . |
| 30 | ‘ He 's been a bad gorilla . ’ |