Example sentences of "bad [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'll be some people who erm , for whatever reason wo n't come out because it 's the worst possible day for the weather , and and and poles have been affected by weather . |
| 2 | because I 'll tell you what , I came off cold turkey , and I had the worst three days of my whole life . |
| 3 | what I most often heard when I phoned people a couple of days in was that it 's been the worst two days of my life ! |
| 4 | It is much worse these days than it was in 1966 . |
| 5 | This meant Alice faced it — a bad few days with Jasper . |
| 6 | At most they would have remained as caretakers of the museum pieces of the past , reminding the young in this brave new , smug , boring , consensual world of the bad old days when people felt deeply about big issues and the future was uncertain . |
| 7 | BACK IN the bad old days , drivers of diesel cars were the social outcasts of the motoring world . |
| 8 | Back in the bad old days when I was infatuated with you , I rang that number twice to find out . |
| 9 | BACK IN the bad old days when home-bred Open champions were a rarity , it was said that British golfers did n't win because they regarded the event as something special , while the Americans regarded it as just another tournament on the circuit . |
| 10 | But Mr Laird is convinced that economic forces preclude a return to the bad old days of union disruption . |
| 11 | Education — the election debate that never happened Labour and the Liberal Democrats would take our school system back to the bad old days , argues ANTHONY O'HEAR — so why have n't the voters been told as much ? |
| 12 | They would return local government finance to the bad old days of domestic rates , with unrestrained power for local councils to charge householders as much as they like . |
| 13 | I became increasingly interested in gay men 's specific ways of seeing the world — what one might call , to use a now unfashionable phrase of Raymond Williams , male homosexual structures of feeling — but to qualify for inclusion in this framework , texts had to pass an ‘ authorship test ’ ( ‘ is/was he gay ? ’ ) that harked back to the bad old days of crudely biographical criticism . |
| 14 | Nostalgia for the good old , bad old days gives much of what passes for working class culture in the 1980's , its peculiarly sentimental cast . |
| 15 | Donald seemed to be describing the bad old days before Mrs Thatcher , as far as Henry could see . |
| 16 | ‘ I suppose that would have been regarded as subversive by some governments in the bad old days , ’ he said . |
| 17 | It had been good enough in the bad old days , good enough for her mother before her , good enough , in all probability , for her grandmother too , if the secrets of that angelic white head were ever known . |
| 18 | So they worry , and look back with longing to the good old , bad old days , when there always seemed to be a kind and sturdy neighbour nearby who was willing to pop in to lend a hand to the elderly and disabled , in the closer-knit communities of their youth . |
| 19 | In the bad old days of low-carbohydrate diets , many people did , indeed , imagine that those saintly ‘ protein foods ’ were calorie-free — I have even known poor souls pouring down vastly fattening cream under the mistaken impression that it was calorie-free because it lacked carbohydrate ! |
| 20 | The old days are always the ‘ bad old days ’ . |
| 21 | This provoked further criticism from official quarters with more comparisons with the ‘ bad old days ’ of the Cultural Revolution . |
| 22 | Just like the bad old days , the idea is to get the brothers to take over as many places as possible . |
| 23 | There is an interesting link between the setting up of reserves such as Chitawan and what some may see as the bad old days of tiger hunting . |
| 24 | Back in the bad old days of the ‘ tripartite system ’ and the 11-plus , when it was more acceptable to know your place , and upward mobility was not such an unquestionably good idea , life was easier and less personal for teachers because to a much greater extent their values were stably enshrined in the organization and structures of the schools for which they worked . |
| 25 | In the bad old days you could go crazy trying to match a driver 's configuration to the switch settings on a LAN card . |
| 26 | The quality of translation here , with its simpering rhythms and bathetic language , proves that in this matter the major publishers have moved on hardly at all from the bad old days when the employment of unskilled amateurs or stilted romantics in translation work marred the English publication of some of the great accounts of European mountaineering . |
| 27 | Consequently , it is rather amusing to have Gergiev tell you that the only thing he misses about the bad old days before perestroika is the order . |
| 28 | It was just like the bad old days again . |
| 29 | And just like in the bad old days , it was coincidence rather than cleverness that saved the Doctor . |
| 30 | It heralded not a new age of dispersal , but a return to the bad old days of technological free-for-all-a return to that madness that had once before almost destroyed Chung Kuo . |