Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a worse " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Peking 's eyes , the Nobel Peace Prize could not have come at a worse time . |
| 2 | It could scarcely have come at a worse time . |
| 3 | This could not have come at a worse time , with the prospect in view of becoming an ‘ officer 's lady ’ . |
| 4 | For the CEGB , trying to sell nuclear reliability to an increasingly sceptical local population , this could hardly have come at a worse time . |
| 5 | She could not have come at a worse time ; a few hours after she arrived , she was a helpless burning hulk , with most of her passengers and crew dead . |
| 6 | It could not have come at a worse time for the Royal Family , almost on the eve of the wedding of Princess Anne to Commander Tim Laurence . |
| 7 | I 'm afraid it could n't have come at a worse time . |
| 8 | But he gave her a smouldering glance and said , ‘ This change in the weather could n't have come at a worse time . |
| 9 | ‘ In many ways , it could not have come at a worse time because the selectors are obviously considering alternatives after the defeat at Old Trafford and I would like to think I would be one of them . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ God witness , ’ said Llewelyn , drumming his long fingers on the arms of his chair in a hard-driven rhythm that was always a key to the stresses of his mind , ‘ it could not have come at a worse time . |
| 11 | I ca n't think of a worse crime . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll show ya round with great pleasure , ’ said the affable manager , ‘ but I ca n't think of a worse theatre than this for your show . ’ |
| 13 | GET MARRIED I CA N'T THINK OF A WORSE TORTURE S. |
| 14 | Nor could it have occurred at a worse time . |
| 15 | ‘ What do we have to do to convince people that this is n't a dangerous place ? ’ asked Alasdair MacLaughlin the CBI 's regional director in the Province , pointing out that London suffers from a worse violent crime rate . |
| 16 | The Court held on the one hand that the protection of the Directive was a matter of public policy and so the worker could not trade away his right under the Directive to the maintenance of the same terms and conditions , even if ‘ the employee obtains new benefits in compensation for the disadvantages resulting from an amendment to his contract of employment so that , taking the matter as a whole , he is not placed in a worse position than before ’ ( point 15 ) . |
| 17 | Provided the springboard doctrine is sensibly applied and injunctions granted only in the clearest of cases so that the recipient of the information is not effectively placed in a worse position than if he had not received it , the interests of both the supplier of the information and the recipient can be satisfied . |
| 18 | But shares in Wheway more than halved to 6p after the engineer plunged to a worse than expected £3.51m loss and admitted that talks with a bidder had been abandoned . |
| 19 | She said : ‘ I then realised there were people just like me , and people who had gone through a worse hell than me . ’ |
| 20 | This has made it difficult for Britain to compete on the world market , and this in turn has eventually led to a worse slump and level of unemployment than would otherwise have been the case had there been no political intervention in the working of the naturally self-regulating free economy of the market . |
| 21 | It is idle to speculate on the source of leaks — that I did learn in my years in Government — but what was certain was that the Telegraph story could not have appeared at a worse time . |
| 22 | As Mr. Ratcliffe pointed out , others suffer similarly and he gave as a worse example a village called Iwade , situated on the main road to Sheerness Docks . |
| 23 | Yet it is hard to think of a worse ordeal for a political leader than being urged by the party of which he is head to sever relations with his wife . |
| 24 | ‘ I am celebrating 10 years in management today and I am struggling to think of a worse away performance . ’ |
| 25 | I 've heard also of courses of injections which remove it in the short term but result in a worse incidence of cellulite after the treatment has worn off . |
| 26 | The ten-week India campaign could hardly have started on a worse personal note when it was announced , just as England flew in on 29 December that his marriage was over . |
| 27 | Whatever the truth , the unwelcome publicity could not come at a worse time for Mercedes — just as it is launching its new top-of-the-range ‘ S ’ model after 12 years of development . |
| 28 | Newspaper reports on 12th March that the Bank of Ireland is to shed 600 of its staff over the coming years could not come at a worse time for the economy . |
| 29 | This could n't have happened at a worse time . |
| 30 | Her discovery in Paris could n't have happened at a worse time from that point of view , and she would just have to accept it . |