Example sentences of "[vb pp] worse " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ To my eternal pride , the others all looked worse ! ’ |
| 2 | ‘ They 've looked worse , ’ retorted Isabel drily . |
| 3 | Powell has never felt worse than the year after he won , when he fell on Stearsby . |
| 4 | Sitting in the rear , maybe it had felt worse , but I 'd been petrified . |
| 5 | If the man had struck me I could n't have felt worse . |
| 6 | I would have felt worse had they . |
| 7 | She 'd suffered worse treatment from punters in the past . |
| 8 | He and Mrs Thatcher are having to face up to a crisis they have made worse by trying to deny it , and now they can not agree on who should do what or how or why . |
| 9 | This definition suggests two of the major deficiencies of the international legal system — firstly that there is little one country can do if another fails to abide by the rules , and this is made worse by the second factor , the lack of a comprehensive single body of law that could form the basis of a truly coherent system . |
| 10 | The position of Asian children in secondary schools in and around Southall is made worse by bussing . |
| 11 | One of the main causes of recurrent famine throughout Ethiopia is the problem of massive deforestation , although in the regions of Wollo , Tigray and Eritrea it has been made worse by war . |
| 12 | Many who invested in UK-based Barlow Clowes Gilt Managers and its Gibraltar sister operation , Barlow Clowes International , were elderly people whose plight has been made worse by the loss of their savings . |
| 13 | An inadequate system has been made worse by the Government 's decision that it will no longer accept responsibility for collecting maintenance unless there have been irregular payments . |
| 14 | Matters were made worse by the defection of the Harwell scientist Bruno Pontecorvo in September 1950 ; and later by the escape to Moscow of the British diplomatic defectors Burgess and Maclean in June 1951 . |
| 15 | Just as the recession of 1980–81 was made worse by holding rates up in pursuit of a money-supply target , so today 's recession could be intensified by the pursuit of an exchange-rate target . |
| 16 | This was made worse by a slight over-count of whites — people with two homes , for instance , tended to be double-counted . |
| 17 | Matters have been made worse by the way investment banks scrambled to do junk-bond deals after federal investigators closed in on Mr Milken . |
| 18 | The excesses of overpayment in 1987–89 were made worse by a simple point : companies , whether buying themselves out or releveraging themselves in competition with outside bidders , paid their investment-bank advisers fees linked to whether the transaction was completed or not . |
| 19 | The disorder is made worse by antagonism between the Kuwaitis who stayed and those who left . |
| 20 | These were made worse by the tales and rumours which had been spread by evacuees about the devastation in north German cities , especially following the destruction of Hamburg . |
| 21 | The old person is more likely to experience the effects of chronic grief which are made worse by continuing life events but seldom balanced as in younger years by new attachments . |
| 22 | In 1977 , the area was hit by massive floods which were made worse by the strip mining operations , leaving thousands of people homeless . |
| 23 | The DoE 's difficulty was made worse by its maladroit handling of the press and contacts with Britain 's scientists and environmental groups . |
| 24 | The situation was made worse by the fact that the officers who had originally been blocking Simpson 's Brae moved down to the rear of the march and then , unaware that their colleagues were dispersing the head of the demonstration , were confronted by protesters running towards them . |
| 25 | The injustice to the home-owner is sometimes made worse by the fact that very often he has n't the money to pay for the repairs and has to borrow from the bank in order to pay the bill . |
| 26 | This impasse was made worse by continued falls in copper prices until the mid-1980s . |
| 27 | This is made worse by the fact that five ‘ O ’ levels are the necessary qualification for a wide range of white-collar jobs , and therefore are regarded as a talisman for success . |
| 28 | The situation was made worse by the 1986 earthquake , which exacerbated the housing shortage and destroyed or damaged numerous schools . |
| 29 | As Zachar ( 1982 ) has described , the poor cohesiveness of loess soils , due to the paucity of binding colloids , means that they are characterised by high erodibility which is made worse by leaching that rapidly removes cations like calcium and magnesium . |
| 30 | These problems are being made worse by logging practices which , unless carefully managed , w ill continue to contribute to excessive soil erosion . |