Example sentences of "[vb infin] [art] bad " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would eliminate the worst cases of cruelty and would substantially reduce the number of whales killed , as only those beached would be gaffed and killed , and the rest could be driven back to sea . |
| 2 | I ca n't enjoy the good ones if I do n't experience the bad ones . |
| 3 | Let us instead sing the praises of those who get us to smile — the Hundred Funniest ( say we ) People in Britain : those indomitable men and women who help us to cackle through our tears , and who , while they do n't make the bad times any better , certainly make them hurt less . |
| 4 | The damned Duke will make the worst of it . ’ |
| 5 | The margin between them by the end of the campaign was considerably larger than the gap between Mrs Thatcher and the Labour leader five years ago : 1987Apr 7–8Now Thatcher/Major would make best Prime Minister 42 39 47 Kinnock would 31 28 21 Conservative advantage+11+11+26 Asked who they thought would ‘ make the worst Prime Minister ’ , 51 per cent of Gallup 's sample named Mr Kinnock — seven percentage points higher than the number who named him in 1987 . |
| 6 | A measure of the difference between Mr Major 's personal standing and Mrs Thatcher 's is that , whereas a mere 19 per cent of voters on Friday and Saturday said they thought Mr Major would make the worst Prime Minister , nearly double that proportion , 34 per cent , thought the same of Mrs Thatcher five years ago . |
| 7 | Do you want the bad news or the very bad news ? |
| 8 | But if you can produce 28 seconds that actually exists as a piece of entertainment and makes people laugh , nobody will ever think the worse of you for it . |
| 9 | My father told me one evening that neither he nor my mother would think the worse of me if I did not go . |
| 10 | Everyone but Nathan had gathered in the canteen that morning and Roirbak , when he joined them , was aware of a certain tension indicating no one dared think the worst was over . |
| 11 | They will think the worst of three handsome men who have taken leave together . ’ |
| 12 | She can know the worst . |
| 13 | ‘ Say it , then , Sally-Anne Tunstall ; let me know the worst . |
| 14 | This model assumes that the welfare state can combat the worst injustice of modern capitalist societies . |
| 15 | When you 're giving feedback to people , yes , there were going to bad things about what they 've done , yes , there 's going to be good things , but if you can catch the bad things between two good things , even if the good things are just saying thank you , they 're going to go away with a bigger smile on their face , and probably feel more motivated for the next time they do that task . |
| 16 | And might it not also stimulate the worst possible scenario or terrorist activity ? |
| 17 | In education there was during the 1960s a gradual shift towards comprehensive secondary schooling partly prompted by a ( false ) belief that such schooling would help eradicate the worst ine-qualities ( class , not gender ) of the tripartite system , as shown by researchers in the sociology of education ( see Finn , Grant and Johnson , 1978 ) . |
| 18 | The diversity of circumstances and meanings , both social and personal , will then interact with each other , explaining why some will cheerfully survive the worst material hardships while others , who may be well-provided for in terms of physical resources , fall at the first fence . |
| 19 | The paradoxes put forward Tolkien 's theses that determination should survive the worst that can happen , that a stout pretence is more valuable than sincere despair . |
| 20 | Indeed , the cheapest price , which competition will principally lead to , may ensure the worst service . |
| 21 | If taught to small children as a stepping-stone to the ABC , it could wait a lifetime until everyone had grown up knowing both systems , then the better would simply oust the worst — as the arabic numerals have eventually ousted the roman ones . |
| 22 | Much was therefore made of the horrors of American TV — again , by hearsay , since the BBC did not show the worst American TV programmes and none of the ads . |
| 23 | History suggests that Hongkong Bank should expect the worst after 1997 ; it lost all but one of its 33 branches in mainland China in 1949 . |
| 24 | Do not automatically expect the worst , as that is negative programming — a negative habit . |
| 25 | So er if you 're thinking of becoming a super model if there is anybody out there who 's thinking of becoming a super model perhaps you 'll give me a ring and er and I can break the bad news to you personally . |
| 26 | We will enable tenants to apply for Housing Action Trusts to take over and improve the worst estates . |
| 27 | It was growing dark , and she thought of sleeping on a bench or under a tree in a remote part of Regent 's Park , but she was afraid that , having spent the night out and returning in a dishevelled state , her landlady might assume the worst and not let her in again . |
| 28 | Just as Wunis Abdulhadi was able to opt out among friends , but knew that in a conflict he could not walk down the street without danger of attack from Zuwaya , so ‘ the obligation to fight ’ arose from people 's perception that their opponents would assume the worst possible case — — that everyone who had a theoretical obligation to fight would do so . |
| 29 | Do n't assume the worst or jump to conclusions . |
| 30 | I asked if you were sleeping with him , and since you have done everything to evade a straight answer I must assume the worst or the best , depending whose side you are one . ’ |