Example sentences of "[vb infin] a worse [noun] " in BNC.

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1 For example , leaving rates of women employees may show a worse picture than for male employees .
2 After the disastrous presidency of George Bush , Arfur Daley himself could n't do a worse job .
3 Similarly both the Rathenau Advisory Group in the Netherlands and the Industrial Institute of Economic and Social Research in Stockholm , carried out simulations which indicated that slow introduction of microelectronic technology would have a worse effect on employment than keeping up with other countries .
4 Recognising that relocation may have a worse effect on married staff than on single workers , it is not unusual to find that they receive higher allowances .
5 " I could n't have a worse offer if I lived to be a hundred .
6 By the end of the year he was predicting , in research carried out for the Scottish National Party , that unemployment would have a worse impact in Scotland than elsewhere in the UK , reflecting the poorer social conditions prevalent there .
7 If you do n't watch out , you can get a worse habit than the one you started with .
8 ‘ The public will get a worse railway for more money , ’ he claimed .
9 Can you imagine a worse fate than being condemned to listen to the endless trivia that surround most criminal prosecutions ?
10 ‘ 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 .
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