Example sentences of "have been badly [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a computer has been badly made and is an electrical hazard then , if the person who has been electrocuted had tampered with the machine , the damages awarded may be reduced in proportion to the extent of his contribution to the accident . |
| 2 | The fact is your house has been badly damaged by fire . ’ |
| 3 | The article ended : ‘ The prince 's image has been badly damaged and statesman-like behaviour can not compensate for a young wife throwing herself downstairs in an attempted suicide while her husband strides to go out riding . |
| 4 | Daryl Fowler of The Conservation Practice commented ‘ The cultural spine of the Fatimid and Ayyubid city has been badly damaged and repair and conservation programmes , long needed in Cairo , are now increasingly urgent ’ . |
| 5 | On the north or river side an artificial terrace about 40 ft wide is still visible , as are parts of the revetment wall on the east side , but the west side has been badly damaged by the excavation for the entrance to the quarry . |
| 6 | A centuries-old road bridge which is a protected landmark , has been badly damaged by a tractor which smashed through the parapet . |
| 7 | The money raised by the event will help to rebuild the Children 's Hospital in Osijek , which has been badly damaged by shellfire . |
| 8 | A block of residential flats at Elsfield near Oxford has been badly damaged by fire . |
| 9 | Mr Sloan believes the thieves were probably working for someone who has bought a similar Mercedes which has been badly damaged or written off . |
| 10 | ‘ The front has been blown away , a wall is keeling over and the ceiling has been badly damaged . |
| 11 | A sports pavilion in Pallister Park has been badly damaged by two fires , one last Thursday and one late on Monday night . |
| 12 | One of the missionaries has been badly beaten and stabbed . |
| 13 | While the north of Cameroun has been badly affected , its key productive areas lie in the high rainfall zones of the western highlands ; in Kenya the old colonial rule-of-thumb that one year in five will be a year of drought has been sustained , and lean years have been followed by bumper crops . |
| 14 | Staff morale has been badly affected by past reorganisation and by the poor ‘ leaves on the line ’ and ‘ wrong-kind-of-snow ’ publicity . |
| 15 | Like Nigeria , Libya has been badly affected by growing North Sea production as has the development of its oil industry . |
| 16 | Ann 's other children are David , 24 , and 14-year-old Tracy , who has been badly affected by her sisters ' convictions . |
| 17 | It was his eighth goal in 10 games of a season in which he has been badly affected by injury and left out of Taylor 's plans because of a question mark over his match-fitness . |
| 18 | Today 's racing has been abandoned , and the rest of the day 's sporting programme has been badly affected . |
| 19 | In recent years , the tribe has been badly affected by malaria , measles and other diseases brought in by prospecting miners , and by inroads into their traditional forest lands . |
| 20 | THE Scottish Football League programme has been badly affected over the last couple of weeks , not only by the injuries which might reasonably be expected at this stage in a crowded season , but , unusually , by a flu virus which has caused havoc in the playing staffs of some of the Premier Division teams . |
| 21 | The Dutch striker , whose scoring touch has been badly missed , hopes to play for part of next Sunday 's away game at newly promoted Cremonese . |
| 22 | I think one of my difficulties with Adam Bede is that she begins to lose interest a little bit in the figure of the beautiful , but not actually very bright , village girl , whose seduction is an important part of the story , and by the end of the book we feel that she 's actually bored with Hettie , is n't really concerned any longer to explore Hettie 's own sufferings as the other woman who has been badly treated by the rascally gentleman . |
| 23 | Usually a small tank will suffice like a 24″x12″x12″ , and it can be used in which to put a fish that has been badly injured , or picked on . |
| 24 | A particular fish either ends up on its own because it has been badly injured , or has lost its mate , or may have been bought on impulse , the reasons are many and varied . |
| 25 | He was one of Glasgow 's two great architects but his work has been badly neglected , which is something the city should be ashamed of . |
| 26 | If the horse has been badly trained and throws his head up then it can be a useful aid until you have taught him to accept the rein aids . |
| 27 | ‘ Fernand has been badly traumatised , but he 's a gentle soul and would n't lay a finger on anyone , ’ Melissa insisted . |
| 28 | The distribution of food , never well organised , has been badly disrupted . |
| 29 | If the brief has been badly prepared , there can not be effective representation . |
| 30 | The unravelling of communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR has shown that if anything the notion of total control exercised by an all-knowing state has been badly overplayed by Cold Warriors . |