Example sentences of "[verb] a worse [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The density of tree crowns and the proportion of dead shoots both indicated a worse state of health , except for beech , which showed small signs of improvement . |
| 32 | Sheila could not have desired a worse profession . |
| 33 | Unlucky Wales : they are widely thought to have a worse chance against the tourists than either Neath or Llanelli . |
| 34 | It has also been suggested that complex ventricular arrhythmias carry a worse prognosis in patients with non Q wave infarcts . |
| 35 | Changes in media personnel are fairly frequent and nothing gives a worse impression of the PR executive the continual receipt of material with a predecessor 's name or even their predecessor 's predecessor 's name on it . |
| 36 | If you do n't watch out , you can get a worse habit than the one you started with . |
| 37 | ‘ The public will get a worse railway for more money , ’ he claimed . |
| 38 | forget the error or the cause of the problem and get on with correcting it and avoiding a worse situation . |
| 39 | No force had taken a worse drubbing in the first mad onrush of Plan XVII than the Second Army that had then been under his command ; yet , in the moment of defeat , he had made an astonishing turnabout . |
| 40 | Survival curve comparisons showed that colonic disease carried a worse prognosis than terminal ileal disease ( ) or mixed site disease ( ) . |
| 41 | The change was due to the greater proportion of patients with colonic disease , which in this study had a worse prognosis . |
| 42 | He handed in a nine-over-par 81 and only two players , the Dane , Steen Tinning , and Irishman Philip Walton , who had a 9 at the twelfth , had a worse return . |
| 43 | Has the Minister had time to have a look at the table published in European Economy , which clearly shows that in terms of the annual change in the volume of exports of goods and services between 1979 and 1990 , the United Kingdom had a worse record than any other European Community country ? |
| 44 | This strange accident had a worse effect on Troy than any of his troubles , worse even than Fanny 's death . |
| 45 | Can you imagine a worse fate than being condemned to listen to the endless trivia that surround most criminal prosecutions ? |
| 46 | ‘ I can not imagine a worse torture than not knowing how long your pension will be paid , ’ Mr Trench told a London news conference before they marched to Parliament to lobby their MPs . |
| 47 | As I explained in the previous chapter , there is no export zone anywhere that has a good record on linkages , but few have a worse record than the maquila industry . |
| 48 | ‘ Though whether women really have a worse time in this sort of society is a matter for argument , ’ she said . |
| 49 | He had made a few calls , but could n't have chosen a worse time to be setting up a casual liaison . |