Example sentences of "be bad [adv] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is bad enough when parents treat ordinary children as though they were scabs and bunions , but it becomes somehow a lot worse when the child in question is extra -ordinary , and by that I mean sensitive and brilliant . |
| 2 | After all it is bad enough when you think you know what ought to be done , and instead it is decided to do something quite different . |
| 3 | It is bad enough when people are asked to work long hours . |
| 4 | It is bad enough when the violence comes from one direction only — the detested IRA . |
| 5 | It is bad enough when a relative dies , but these people were faced with a massive funeral bill and there was no money in the fund . ’ |
| 6 | Of the latest case , she said : ‘ It is bad enough when justice is made a mockery of with light sentences , or when abusers are set free . |
| 7 | Well fancy being a like that all that time it 's bad enough when you 've been out on a binge and you get that headache then . |
| 8 | It had been bad enough when it was only Papa and the newspapers . |
| 9 | It was bad enough when Abraham was asked to sacrifice his past . |
| 10 | It was bad enough when Edward Hyde was only an unknown name , but now that the lawyer knew something about Hyde , the will worried him more than ever . |
| 11 | It was bad enough when pensioners had to pay the standing charges on their gas , water and telephone bills . |