Example sentences of "[vb infin] [art] [noun] worse " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fear of suffocation that accompanies an asthmatic attack is understandable , but the anxiety itself can make the attack worse — or even bring one on unaided . |
| 2 | ( Simply removing the crutch will make the problem worse . ) |
| 3 | Male callers however are far more likely to be looking for easy solutions to a debt problem , usually a further loan or re-mortgage which in the long term will often make the problem worse . |
| 4 | Worry causes stress , and this in turn can make the problem worse . |
| 5 | Dirt and pollution can make the problem worse , so cleanse hair every day with a frequent-use shampoo ( rinse hair thoroughly afterwards ) . |
| 6 | Keep a watch on how much your daughter eats but do n't try to talk her out of dieting altogether — that 's a surefire way to set up a conflict , which will only make the problem worse . |
| 7 | Without a scientific analysis public policy-makers may only make the problem worse . |
| 8 | But some experts fear the advertisements could actually make the problem worse . |
| 9 | ‘ A high degree of awareness can make the problem worse because some young people are persuaded to carry a knife or weapon to defend themselves with , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Stress and other problems can make the illness worse . |
| 11 | And there 's a lo there 's a whole industry built up about inheritance tax planning where you actually write something in trust for your dependents , and er that 's simple in that if you 're in good health now , you can write say a twenty thousand pounds inheritance tax cover , under trust for your children so that 's paid outside the estate , it does n't make the matters worse , and mo most conveniently at retirement it 's simple to do because you might pay it on an annual premium or a regular monthly premium , and it might cost you twenty or thirty pounds a month , but at least you can forget it then . |
| 12 | Range Rover diffs will fit easily but , with a worn engine , will probably make the consumption worse than it is . |
| 13 | ‘ Why did you make the cut worse ? |
| 14 | If you go in and comfort and fuss over your toddler after she has kicked , yelled and ‘ carried on ’ for twenty minutes , you will make the situation worse . |
| 15 | Er , on paragraph nine the government 's own figures show that there is a shortfall of glee while the others who have a a social conscience , a and that they 've mixed , the site provision is n't keeping pace with the growth of the number of caravans and yet , what it 's proposing to do in this paper will make the situation worse by removing any incentive erm and any requirement on local authorities actually to provide the sites that are needed to make up that shortfall and it 's quite clear that what this is about is actually what it is happening in housing in general and that is shifting provision from the pri , from the public to the private sector . |
| 16 | A discussion of these things would only make the atmosphere worse . ’ |
| 17 | In addition there are conditions where the psychological component is only a small part of the story — it can make the symptoms worse but not initiate the illness . |
| 18 | if , if Freud 's theory of the group is correct , that it 's centred on the leader playing the super role then the presumably the leader could exhort members of the group to act better than they normally would , because after all one of the super leader 's functions is to set the goals for the ego and to give the the goal , the ego something to aspire to so er and as Joy mentioned in her papers and I 'm trying to remind you of , y you , you said that quoting Freud if you recall that , that , that Freud says and I think he , he , he repeats this from the also made the same observation that in a group or a crowd people can act a lot worse than they normally would , they can be more destructive , primitive erm and er more governed by their erm base emotions as it were , but equally in a crowd people can act better than they normally would . |
| 19 | There 's a , you could do a lot worse things that play football ! |
| 20 | In theory , things can only get better ; in practice , they may well become a lot worse before Wasps return in the league next March . |
| 21 | Anyway , you 'll say it 's none of my business , but I can tell you , you 'll go further and fare a lot worse . |
| 22 | Yet , as the latest troubles with Olympia & York and the Tokyo stock market remind us , the recession shows no sign of ending and could get a lot worse unless real interest rates are brought down with a bang — and that means willingness to put the exchange rate mechanism second to domestic monetary policy . |
| 23 | ‘ It will get a lot worse ’ . |
| 24 | If you stop them , you 'll be fine initially but there 's a fair chance you could actually get a lot worse without them . |
| 25 | Bad behaviour may seem a lot worse on a day when the washing machine has flooded the kitchen floor than on a day when everything has gone well . |
| 26 | Somehow that made the situation seem a lot worse . |
| 27 | Well I suppose but er you can imagine a lot worse than that . |