Example sentences of "[vb infin] a [noun] worse " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | There 's a , you could do a lot worse things that play football ! |
| 3 | In theory , things can only get better ; in practice , they may well become a lot worse before Wasps return in the league next March . |
| 4 | Anyway , you 'll say it 's none of my business , but I can tell you , you 'll go further and fare a lot worse . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ It will get a lot worse ’ . |
| 7 | If you stop them , you 'll be fine initially but there 's a fair chance you could actually get a lot worse without them . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Somehow that made the situation seem a lot worse . |
| 10 | Well I suppose but er you can imagine a lot worse than that . |