Example sentences of "[verb] a worse " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can accept not being in the team but I can not accept that , because of the circumstances , I 'm becoming a worse footballer every week . |
| 2 | Eraut ( 1977 ) adopts a process viewpoint when he argues that : ‘ A teacher who is not developing to any noticeable extent is becoming a worse teacher , because development is natural and to avoid it is to deteriorate ’ . |
| 3 | If the hon. Gentleman wants to find a worse record in Scotland for waiting lists , he should look at the waiting lists that were left to us by the previous Labour Government . |
| 4 | This , after all , was no ordinary case of murder and they could scarcely have picked a worse example to further their cause . |
| 5 | If General Motors has a worse credit rating than Toyota , its borrowing costs ought to be higher . |
| 6 | Only construction has a worse record , where the risk is one in 252 . |
| 7 | For example , leaving rates of women employees may show a worse picture than for male employees . |
| 8 | Students held secret meetings and there were rumours of plots to assassinate Mussolini , but these always failed , and It was said that those involved were given long prison sentences or suffered a worse fate . |
| 9 | Oxford United are still stuck at the bottom of the first division … after last night 's draw against Barnsley … while Hereford suffered a worse fate … they lost at Gillingham … |
| 10 | After the disastrous presidency of George Bush , Arfur Daley himself could n't do a worse job . |
| 11 | I had to rack my brains to remember a worse one . |
| 12 | Hewlett , predictably , has ‘ never seen a worse church ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've not seen a worse sea this year . |
| 14 | Darlington could hardly have made a worse start , goalkeeper Mark Prudhoe and his fellow defenders standing frozen to the spot as Preece smartly turned and shot into the top left corner in the ninth minute . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Dr Julius Grayling , the man in charge , says that he would have had a worse chance of getting a grant from the Mandan Foundation if he had applied with a literal description of the work he wanted to carry out . |
| 17 | The professor said : ‘ Judith has had a worse time than David because all of this is not of her making . |
| 18 | But when people lose their jobs , they now stand a worse than fifty-fifty chance of being out of work for more than three months ( in July 1978 , 53 per cent of those who were registered as unemployed had been out of work for longer than three months ) . |
| 19 | The Captain made a worse mess by inadvertently jerking the glass , then with a single gulp drank the remaining wine , turned and boxed Midnight 's ears in one sequence of movements , ‘ Get a cloth , y'ugly devil . ’ |
| 20 | I think we 're all agreed that it 's better for us to die honourably together in this way than to risk a worse fate at the hands of the enemy . " |
| 21 | The Netherlands and Italy produced a worse result as did Ireland , although the latter performed satisfactorily . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The Financial Times of April 2 also quoted a DPK spokesman as alleging that " we are facing a worse genocide than Halabja " , a reference to the use in 1988 of poison gas by the Iraqi army in the town of Halabja which killed an estimated 5,000-6,000 people [ see pp. 36168-69 ] . |
| 24 | Nothing creates a worse impression than people who are late for meetings . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | " I could n't have a worse offer if I lived to be a hundred . |
| 30 | This will probably have a worse risk-benefit trade off than the formalised use of league tables . |