Example sentences of "[verb] to have [vb pp] [art] bad " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking all types of respondents together their ratings were similar for people who had not been in a residential home at all and those who had been in one for a year or more , while those who had only spent part of the last year of their lives in a residential home were generally felt to have had a worse quality of life : for 39 per cent of them it was rated as poor compared with 27 per cent of the other two groups . |
| 2 | Until last year Scotland seemed to have escaped the worst of the recession . |
| 3 | Can I just enlarge upon that because , and quote from it , by boycotting employment action the CoUncil 's controlling group seem to have made a bad decision , prompted by a desire to score political points in the debating chamber . |
| 4 | He began by telling the machine all about Zambia , to which it responded sagely , ‘ In humanity 's attempt to obtain the best of both genders , it appears to have harvested the worst . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Without any treatment the tumour seems to have got no worse . |