Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [adv] bad [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Occasionally one comes across parents who take the opposite line , who show no interest at all in their children , and these of course are far worse than the doting ones . |
| 2 | It may not be a comfortable fact , but there are clear signs that public appreciation of science and the humanities , of research and scholarship are perhaps worse than they ever were , and that most members of the public see these things as simply irrelevant to their daily lives . |
| 3 | And even if she did , she thought bleakly , could that grief be any worse than the pain she was already feeling ? |
| 4 | Judged as a plan for macroeconomic stability , the programme is less bad than its many critics claim . |
| 5 | Alan from Derby says , I wonder why wearing a wig is any worse than a woman wearing make-up . |
| 6 | The snow is much worse as I finally move out , and the only consolation for the time it has taken is being alone , and arriving late so that the others have already begun on the tent and wood collecting . |
| 7 | The way the media cover abuse , they tend to sensationalize events , but the emotional effect is much worse than the actual abuse . |
| 8 | We are now hearing that our outlook is so bad that we had better leave it to an independent central bank to decide the important aspects of our future . |
| 9 | ‘ A bad marriage is much worse than no marriage at all . ’ |
| 10 | Reception from conventional ground-based transmission equipment is so bad that many families can watch television only if they receive signals piped in by cable . |
| 11 | Underpriced trips simply increase until congestion is as bad as before , and smog worse . |
| 12 | With a rope break , the climb out is at the normal towing speed when the rope breaks , whereas when engine problems occur the tow is usually slow and the climb is far worse than normal . |
| 13 | I , I emphasize , but some of his followers , took the view that anxiety , for example , in children , was pathological , and they , that generation of analysts tried to bring up their children to be free of anxiety , and , and then , you still get this in a lot of popular child psychology today , the idea that anxiety is always bad and always wrong . |
| 14 | Haymo found on a tour of the diocese that the Palace at Halling with its farming implements and utensils was in a much dilapidated state and he is quoted as saying the state of the property of the diocese was so bad that in seven years the damage could not be made good . |
| 15 | When we finally left the school the return journey home was even worse than the journey to school with pupils being cheeky when you told them to sit down and face the front . |
| 16 | He cant be that bad cos he was called up for England last season if Im correct ? |
| 17 | First , originality for its own sake is even worse than the unattached attention-getting device : it can actually detract from the product and the message of the ad . |
| 18 | County Durham headteacher , Olwyn Gunn , a national executive member of the National Association of Schoolmasters and Union of Women Teachers , said : ‘ I really do n't know of any school where poverty is so bad that children are being treated like this . ’ |
| 19 | Its user interface is even worse than Grandmaster 's , but it 's a welcome ‘ B ’ -side freebie . |
| 20 | At the end of the day , an absolute commitment to cultural insiderism is as bad as an absolute commitment to biological insiderism . |
| 21 | We 've had various explanations , including the British Post Office telling us that Australia 's strike record is as bad as Britain 's and that there have been numerous disputes that have delayed the mail to that country . |
| 22 | Landing was much worse than flying . |
| 23 | Business was so bad that they moved to more lucrative areas before the shows had even finished . |
| 24 | Furthermore it was discovered not only that the ratio of physician to population was substantially worse than for Israel or Jordan but that owing to insufficient funding and planning , 280 doctors were actually unemployed in the territories and another 120 were employed on low salaries under a local professional union 's absorption programme . |
| 25 | I have to assume therefore that the rest is equally bad and that little of what we read in guidebooks as climbing history should be taken seriously . |
| 26 | Overcrowding on the bus service is even worse than on the train service . |
| 27 | According to the report , pollution is so bad that even 100 kilometres away in the national capital of Prague , up to 99.3 per cent of the 1.2 million people live in a highly degraded environment as a direct result . |
| 28 | ‘ All is war now , ’ she records in her column early in August , ‘ and art is under worse than lock and key . |
| 29 | When I came round my head was very bad and the first thing I saw was my father . |
| 30 | He claimed that complaints were up but nobody ever thought of complaining when the Labour party was in power because there was not a proper procedure , and in many cases the service was so bad that people did not bother . |