Example sentences of "been made worse by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many who invested in UK-based Barlow Clowes Gilt Managers and its Gibraltar sister operation , Barlow Clowes International , were elderly people whose plight has been made worse by the loss of their savings . |
| 2 | An inadequate system has been made worse by the Government 's decision that it will no longer accept responsibility for collecting maintenance unless there have been irregular payments . |
| 3 | Matters have been made worse by the way investment banks scrambled to do junk-bond deals after federal investigators closed in on Mr Milken . |
| 4 | The problems have been made worse by the continuing recession and the extra cost of providing services in rural areas . |
| 5 | These were not new problems , though they had been made worse by the rapid growth of population , industry and cities . |
| 6 | The confusion about the project has been made worse by the Government 's vacillation and indecision , and also by their lack of answers to my hon. Friends about where the finance for the project will come from . |
| 7 | This lacuna has been made worse by the ILO 's lack of jurisdiction to examine South African labour legislation since South Africa resigned from the Organisation in 1964 . |
| 8 | A Dutch company in charge of the salvage operation claimed later that the problem had been made worse by the refusal of the Spanish and Moroccan authorities to allow the tanker to be towed into their ports for pumping of the remaining oil and for emergency repairs . |
| 9 | The inflationary impact had been made worse by the President acquiescing in the passing of a law in Congress ordering an unprecedented 40 per cent increase in minimum wages in the private sector . |
| 10 | For instance , there was a shortage of surveyors in Ireland at that time ; the perennial shortage of all skilled artisans and middle-class professionals had been made worse by the demand for public works to relieve the distress following the potato disease . |
| 11 | Some writers have argued that the problem of overload has been made worse by the centralization of government decision-making . |