Example sentences of "could [be] worse [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What fires could be worse than this ? |
| 2 | What could be worse than moving to Chislehurst ? |
| 3 | Disguising his real feelings he wrote cheerfully , telling them that it was better here than The Hague , as if to say that nothing could be worse than the hell of being unloved . |
| 4 | Watched by her baffled cat , Mildred squeezed through the gap and hopped away down the corridor , convinced that nothing could be worse than just sitting helplessly in her room . |
| 5 | Nothing , she told herself , could be worse than this uncertainty , this sense of impending disaster . |
| 6 | What could be worse than to be dogged by all that stuff ? |
| 7 | Nothing could be worse than the life I was leading at present , I thought , where the pressures from being homeless and unemployed were likely to force me into a series of criminal acts which would result in prison , or vagrancy at the least . |
| 8 | After all , nothing could be worse than the war-torn , economically deprived , famine stricken homelands which they left behind . |
| 9 | ‘ Much worse , ’ he said wisely , but Cathbad said that nothing could be worse than Medoc . |
| 10 | And then he remembered the piercing coldness of the Knife of Light slicing deep into his body , and the Lad 's evil greedy eyes and grinning mouth , and he knew that he was not dying , that this could be worse than death , for he was to suffer the soulless existence of all who become victims of the Knife of Light . |
| 11 | ‘ What could be worse than that ? ’ |
| 12 | No torture devised by William of Ypres could be worse than this , she decided , still not daring to raise her head . |
| 13 | The closure would probably have to be done in stages , eg one weekday a week to start with , though that could be worse than total closure because motorists would switch to local roads for one day , but total closure might force them to switch modes altogether . |
| 14 | The view is likely to be controversial , as other research indicates that ozone loss could be worse than previously thought and that the problem could last for many generations . |
| 15 | I did n't think anything could be worse than Teenage Fanclub 's shambolic gig at Newcastle Poly but I was wrong . |
| 16 | And you 'd think , Well what could be worse than lifting and carrying , and what could be more boring than doing that all day ? |