Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] worse " in BNC.
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| 1 | As British companies have become more international in their operations and UK profits have disappeared in the recession , the problem has grown dramatically worse ; about 40% of British listed companies ' profits now come from overseas . |
| 2 | That imbalance has become progressively worse in the past decade . |
| 3 | Since the elections , our situation has become even worse . |
| 4 | I 'm sure the system would have been implemented in the quarry , and they would 've suffered even worse than us . |
| 5 | I might have provoked even worse charges . |
| 6 | The 128th-ranked Wood has a more difficult task against no 67 Wiltrud Probst of Germany , but Britain 's No 2 from Sussex could have fared much worse . |
| 7 | Still , Auntie could have done far worse than that . |
| 8 | Could n't have got much worse could |
| 9 | Enabled by the willingness of parliament to facilitate local economic improvement , the turnpike trusts succeeded in injecting resources into the improvement of a road network which might otherwise have remained much worse . |
| 10 | The row of millworkers ' cottages close by had fared even worse . |
| 11 | The other fighter came from Nottingham four years ago and had seen much worse than one ever saw at Oxford . |
| 12 | Other lesser communist leaders , with whom in the privacy of his own thought Ceauşescu perhaps more modestly compared himself , had done even worse . |
| 13 | And the weather had grown steadily worse . |
| 14 | From there things had grown even worse , and now she felt a sensation of panic if she even had to go to the local shops , in case she encountered a sparrow or two pecking at some crumbs in her path . |
| 15 | I 've had much worse falls during my career . ’ |
| 16 | The walk-in had got steadily worse as the altitude began to tell , but all that now lay behind us . |
| 17 | Things had got even worse on the voluntary side , for without subscriptions to collect or canvassing to do , the whole basis of the voluntary party had gone . |
| 18 | Her family was understandably distressed at her problems , especially because they had been told that the situation would gradually get better , and in fact it had got progressively worse . |
| 19 | Honest Tories confess that things had become distinctly worse than normal , even allowing for the grumps of mid-term recession and by-election rebuff . |
| 20 | Now , in the first detailed account of what were apparently serious efforts by the Mojahedin to subvert Soviet power , Tass has quoted Mr Vladimir Petkel , the head of state security in Tadjikistan , as saying the situation had become considerably worse since the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan . |
| 21 | Now , in the first detailed account of what were apparently serious efforts by the Mojahedin to subvert Soviet power , Tass has quoted Mr Vladimir Petkel , the head of state security in Tadjikistan , as saying the situation had become considerably worse since the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan . |
| 22 | Fearful anticipation had proved somewhat worse than the event , and most Viennese were coming round to the opinion that , whatever the failings of Napoleon 's men , they were at least an improvement upon the Hapsburgs ' Russian allies , whom everyone loathed . |
| 23 | The Duke had planned to assemble as much of his army as possible , then march at dawn on to the French flank to help Blücher 's Prussians , but now Sharpe had brought much worse news . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , these woods have seen far worse than Medoc and the Twelve Lords , ’ said Lugh airily , who happened to be listening to this . |
| 25 | After all they have seen much worse . |
| 26 | Parts of it may seem distasteful , even shocking , but the sad fact is that there are many others who have suffered far worse degradations . |
| 27 | Yeah that 's and it 's got worse in the last twenty or thirty years it 's got much worse I think . |
| 28 | It is also one where things have got much worse in the 1980s : in 1984 , only 18 per cent of 16-year-olds were working compared to 61 per cent a decade earlier ( Department of Education and Science , 1985 ) . |
| 29 | Since then , of course , things have got much worse . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , we have survived even worse , and shall survive this loss also . |