Example sentences of "have [vb pp] matter worse " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Minister has made matters worse . |
| 2 | But many say the chicane built in their village has made matters worse |
| 3 | Although there were many existing and potential foreign competitors in the car industry , car prices in Britain were already significantly higher than in other EC countries and such a dominant company could have made matters worse . |
| 4 | He would have liked to have gone to his brother 's funeral but he thought it would only have made matters worse . |
| 5 | The coroner Nicholas Gardner said the Metro driver 's attempts to regain control of her car may have made matters worse . |
| 6 | His intellectual approach to the management of human resources seems to have made matters worse . |
| 7 | Those who win money on the horses at Kirkby Lonsdale races in Cumbria can quickly sober up if they wander down from the racecourse to see how their rates have been spent on the adjacent reaches of the river Lune , where the recently cemented banks are dramatically caving in , and attempts at bank protection appear to have made matters worse . |
| 8 | She realised from the quizzical looks that met this further information that she had made matters worse rather than better . |
| 9 | Second , Congressional reform had made matters worse ; it had ‘ really messed up the way the Congress effectively works . |
| 10 | ‘ You 're forgetting , I 've always known how to spell her name , ’ she said , and realised at once she had made matters worse . |