Example sentences of "a worse " in BNC.
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| 1 | The airmail letters which he exchanges with his liberal friends in England tell a worse story of them than they do of him , and hark back in fine style to that golden time when such friends used to kneel in London mosques with Michael X and other celebrities , squinting up at the Heavyweight Champion of the World 's effulgent arse . |
| 2 | This nearly always results in drifting further back without much gain of height and ending up in a worse situation than before . |
| 3 | forget the error or the cause of the problem and get on with correcting it and avoiding a worse situation . |
| 4 | This was the main message behind a worse than expected slump in interim pre-tax profits from £30.9m to £16.2m and the likelihood of a full year pre-tax loss , after incurring exceptional costs estimated at a cool £50m , to £55m . |
| 5 | In Peking 's eyes , the Nobel Peace Prize could not have come at a worse time . |
| 6 | THE MUDDLES all come from thinking you could have a better idea of God or a worse one or any idea of God at all . |
| 7 | Unlucky Wales : they are widely thought to have a worse chance against the tourists than either Neath or Llanelli . |
| 8 | Sheila could not have desired a worse profession . |
| 9 | The laws are fairly insignificant when set beside the economic problem , and the near certainty that , even if all its present plans work out , the Government will be compelled to report a worse economic record in its third Parliament than its second . |
| 10 | Asked after the meeting if the current year could be worse , he said : ‘ I ca n't imagine a worse one . ’ |
| 11 | Hewlett , predictably , has ‘ never seen a worse church ’ . |
| 12 | Whatever the truth , the unwelcome publicity could not come at a worse time for Mercedes — just as it is launching its new top-of-the-range ‘ S ’ model after 12 years of development . |
| 13 | If General Motors has a worse credit rating than Toyota , its borrowing costs ought to be higher . |
| 14 | But the point remains : retail ownership is often a move in a worse direction , not a better one . |
| 15 | The rights and wrongs of it were debated for some time and the feeling seemed to be that the TCCB had come out of it in a worse light than Gatting ; as the Melbourne newspaper The Age put it , ‘ Gatting , caught rumour , bowled hypocrisy , 0 ’ . |
| 16 | It could scarcely have come at a worse time . |
| 17 | It is idle to speculate on the source of leaks — that I did learn in my years in Government — but what was certain was that the Telegraph story could not have appeared at a worse time . |
| 18 | Only construction has a worse record , where the risk is one in 252 . |
| 19 | Their clothes were in a worse state than when they had left the workhouse . |
| 20 | Yet it is hard to think of a worse ordeal for a political leader than being urged by the party of which he is head to sever relations with his wife . |
| 21 | Paul Mukasa , 34 , who works as an electrician , added : ‘ I personally think the economy is in a worse state then the Government has been letting on . ’ |
| 22 | Existing customers are a worse risk because if they know redundancy is in the offing they are more likely to take out redundancy protection while new borrowers are not going to commit themselves to a mortgage if they are worried about losing their jobs . ’ |
| 23 | The Conservatives went into the campaign in a worse position than when they lost to Labour under Harold Wilson in 1964 , and that position , if anything , deteriorated , yet there seems to have been a last-minute surge in the Tories ’ favour . |
| 24 | With government borrowing having soared to £28 billion this year , and underlying concern that public finances are in a worse state than has been acknowledged , Mr Portillo 's priority will be to curb further increases in public expenditure . |
| 25 | British Rail on Sundays is a worse joke than on weekdays . |
| 26 | I can not imagine a worse , ’ he said . |
| 27 | Taking all types of respondents together their ratings were similar for people who had not been in a residential home at all and those who had been in one for a year or more , while those who had only spent part of the last year of their lives in a residential home were generally felt to have had a worse quality of life : for 39 per cent of them it was rated as poor compared with 27 per cent of the other two groups . |
| 28 | This could not have come at a worse time , with the prospect in view of becoming an ‘ officer 's lady ’ . |
| 29 | Nothing would be a worse prescription for the future of the Community than for what are patently political matters to be left to the determination of the European Court , which is both unsuited and incapable of settling them . |
| 30 | I think it may give the Reader a worse Idea of her Person than it deserv 'd , which was very far from being shocking ; tho' there was nothing extraordinary in it . |