Example sentences of "worse [conj] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a corporation that is in trouble a lot of actions might make things worse so the natural tendency is to try to escape from the present troubles by setting a specific objective and moving towards that . |
| 2 | Air bricks , extractor fans , open fires and dehumidifiers all help , but often you have to learn to live with it — and there is nothing worse than a new house which was built in wet conditions . |
| 3 | Either he had perfected the performance over the years to ward off sympathy from the able-bodied , or he was hiding something far worse than a self-destructive youth . |
| 4 | There is nothing worse than a shy ferret . |
| 5 | In the two West Midlands boroughs there was a clear tendency for the Conservatives to do better and Labour worse than a similar examination of a wide range of ward social characteristics would lead one to expect . |
| 6 | If there 's one thing worse than a poor singer , I do n't know what it is . … ’ |
| 7 | Truly , there is nothing worse than a world-weary hippie , and nothing more strictly self-superior than the elders of the benevolent-beat-bohemian class . |
| 8 | The Germans had no idea who she was and the villagers from whom she had been begging food had not betrayed her ; she was allowed to go without suffering anything much worse than a slapped face and an hour 's sarcastic , sneering interrogation . |
| 9 | ‘ We do n't think it is a very good idea , because a voluntary monopoly is worse than a statutory monopoly because there is no control over it . |
| 10 | Take your seats ; there 's nothing worse than a cold dinner . ’ |
| 11 | A man who would not love his father 's grave is worse than a wild animal . |
| 12 | If it had steeled itself to cross this threshold ( as Yemen bravely did a month ago ) , Egypt might today be afflicted by nothing worse than a bad case of anti-incumbency — hardly surprising after a dozen years with the same tired face at the top . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm the conman , ’ he replied , and that humiliation by Barnsley instantly began to feel like nothing worse than a bad dream . |
| 14 | There is nothing worse than a bendy sea boat . |
| 15 | It 's worse than a medical dictionary , that is . |
| 16 | THE UK 's ‘ record of human suffering ’ is worse than every European country except Greece , according to an index published this month by the Washington based Population Crisis Committee . |
| 17 | The South-East and the North-West were , in fact , doing worse than the traditional problem regions of Scotland , the North , and Wales , the last of which was doing very well . |
| 18 | ‘ I doubt if Suzie 's any worse than the average teenager . |
| 19 | Again , there is no charge for purchases other than paying an exchange rate 2 p.c. or 3 p.c. worse than the wholesale money market rate . |
| 20 | The way the media cover abuse , they tend to sensationalize events , but the emotional effect is much worse than the actual abuse . |
| 21 | This may operate as follows : This would normally be expected to produce results rather worse than the mid-square method , but it has proved to be very effective on occasions ( see p. 169 for further discussion ) . |
| 22 | There 's nothing worse than the straight man who shouts it from the rooftop . ’ |
| 23 | I think that 's worse than the double garage , and I 'm afraid that I disagree , Mr Chairman . |
| 24 | Once income has begun to fall and businessmen 's expectations become pessimistic , persistent unemployment may be created , far worse than the initial disturbance might have suggested . |
| 25 | She tried to banish the humiliation to the back of her mind , but it was worse than the physical pain . |
| 26 | In the most potentially serious accident , a ski-rack came off worse than the out-of-control 10-year-old who hit it . |
| 27 | The Legion sounded like a good idea : the pay was good , the uniforms smart , the bullshit no worse than the British Army , and there were varied postings abroad . |
| 28 | It is not clear whether anything worse than the natural virus might result . |
| 29 | Drugs often produce effects far worse than the original problem for which they were prescribed . |
| 30 | But when you have to face up to the fact that no one wants to know and people are more interested in the apprehension and sentencing of the offender , that for many people is even worse than the original crime . ’ |