adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
badly dressed (= not well dressed )
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The Prime Minister’s been criticized for being badly dressed.
badly hit
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Our ship was badly hit and sank within minutes.
badly injured
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Grandpa was badly injured in the war.
badly off
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The school is rather badly off for equipment.
badly shaken
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He was badly shaken after the attack.
badly
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How badly do you want to win?
badly
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Why did he treat me so badly?
badly/seriously hurt
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Fortunately, no one was seriously hurt.
badly/severely/seriously damage
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Smoking can severely damage your health.
be badly scarred
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Her legs were badly scarred from a car accident.
be badly/seriously wounded
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Her husband was seriously wounded in the attack.
be badly/seriously/critically injured
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Two people have been critically injured in an accident.
be badly/severely burned
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His face had been badly burned in the fire.
be badly/severely/hard hit
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The company has been hard hit by the drop in consumer confidence.
be shaking badly (= be shaking a lot )
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She had been crying, and was still shaking badly.
be well/badly off for sth
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The school’s fairly well off for books these days.
do well/badly in a test British English , do well/badly on a test American English
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I didn’t do very well in the first part of the test.
do well/badly in an exam British English , do well/badly on an exam AmEː
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Maria always did well in her exams at school.
do well/badly in an examination
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He did well in his examinations, and went on to study at MIT.
go badly/seriously wrong
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The book is a thriller about a diamond robbery that goes badly wrong.
handles well/badly
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The car handles well, even on wet roads.
heavily/severely/badly etc polluted
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The island has been seriously polluted by a copper mine.
let down badly
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She had been let down badly in the past.
much needed/badly needed
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a much needed boost to the local economy
need sth desperately/badly/urgently
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More blood donors are urgently needed.
react badly (= become annoyed, upset etc )
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Do you react badly to criticism?
sell well/badly (= be bought by a lot of people, or very few people )
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Anti-age creams always sell well.
seriously/badly/slightly etc delayed
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The flight was badly delayed because of fog.
seriously/chronically/badly etc underfunded
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Our education system is seriously underfunded.
sleep badly
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Eleanor slept badly that night.
start badly/well/slowly etc
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Any new exercise program should start slowly.
suffer badly/greatly
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The town had suffered badly in the war.
take sb/sth seriously/badly/personally etc
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I was joking, but he took me seriously.
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Ben took the news very badly.
things go well/badly etc
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If things went well, we would double our money in five years.
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How did things go?
time sth well/badly etc
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Keith timed the pass well.
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a beautifully timed shot
turn out well/badly/fine etc
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It was a difficult time, but eventually things turned out all right.
well/badly etc designed
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a badly designed office
well/badly run
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The hotel is well-run and extremely popular.
well/badly/beautifully etc proportioned
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Arnold’s perfectly proportioned body
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a beautifully proportioned room
well/badly/poorly etc written
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The article is very well written.
well/elegantly/badly etc shod
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The children were well shod and happy.
work out well/badly
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Financially, things have worked out well for us.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
hurt
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I was badly hurt , but I escaped and ran into the open country.
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He sees a specialist tomorrow but the club are optimistic that he is not as badly hurt as first feared.
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Can't you see the boy's badly hurt .
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Penguins and seals have been found entangled in lengths of fishing net, some of them dead and many others badly hurt .
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Then he saw, with relief, that she did not seem to be badly hurt .
wrong
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It was then that things had gone badly wrong .
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By the late seventies many observers were concluding that something had gone badly wrong with initially well-motivated regulation.
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How did things go so badly wrong so quickly?
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If one accepts Levitt's analysis, Hoover got their marketing badly wrong .
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When Rebecca emerged into the sunlight, it was clear that something was badly wrong .
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Where on this conjoined road of shared experiences did the Prime Minister go so badly wrong and become a Tory?
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That alone would have been enough to show something was badly wrong .
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Since then, despite deep and life changing bonds being formed, some relationships have at times threatened to go badly wrong .
■ VERB
affect
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Local wildlife and agriculture are likely to be badly affected , environmentalists claim.
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They may be so badly affected that their productivity drops.
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The A-Forty-Eight Gloucester to Lydney road also badly affected , with some roads under two feet of water.
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Seabirds were badly affected , with cormorants and black-necked grebes being among the first to die.
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Fortunately, none of the family was too badly affected .
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Even among those not so badly affected , ignorance about radiation produces powerful if sometimes irrational fear.
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The Pang, Ver and Misbourne rivers, already suffering from over-abstraction, are badly affected .
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He was believed to have been badly affected by the death of his wife last April.
beat
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One of the missionaries has been badly beaten and stabbed.
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Some critics of the government were badly beaten .
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The women and the kids had been really badly beaten .
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Thomas said Stern was beaten badly before other patrons of the bar stopped the attack.
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Despite his wound Ahn still fights like a tiger, but is badly beaten and reeling.
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Stephen often comes into school badly beaten .
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The manager was shot in the leg and badly beaten up.
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Further down a big Negro with a badly beaten face was shaking his head in the negative to every question asked him.
behave
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Children who behave badly have had years to learn it.
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Elsewhere, however, they behaved badly .
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He accepted that it would be better to give her lots of love and attention for behaving well rather than for behaving badly .
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They were all a bunch of spoiled, badly behaved film stars and he had no patience with any of them.
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Yet, he counselled himself, he would not behave badly to her.
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As for Auster, I am convinced that he behaved badly throughout.
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Apart from politically inspired race riots in the early 1960s, rarely did Black people behave badly towards us.
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Certainly, individuals may behave badly in any system.
bruise
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There was a little blood around his mouth and his eyes were badly bruised .
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Trapped in an eddy Graham was retrieved from the barrel badly bruised , just before he almost died of suffocation.
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Taylor was left badly bruised down his right side-from leg to shoulder-but escaped without permanent injuries.
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He's badly bruised and has difficulty moving because of the stab wound to his back.
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Seaman badly bruised a hip and came off early in the second half last weekend but has received extensive treatment.
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His nose had bled and his forehead and face were badly bruised from his fall; but he was not seriously hurt.
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She's very shaken and her arms are badly bruised from where the men held her.
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It's badly bruised - it may have been knocked by a car.
burned
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The bodies of the victims were so badly burned they could not be counted.
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A dozen others were left badly burned .
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He wasn't that badly burned , but yeah, we checked.
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Andrew Morton was badly burned when a spark from his welding-torch ignited a fuel line.
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His Hurricane was shot down over Kent during the Battle of Britan and he was badly burned .
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She probably saved me getting badly burned last week, yet I can't seem to find any gratitude towards her.
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It is only in the fashion or fad field that the later comers get badly burned .
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His body was so badly burned that his features were unrecognisable.
cut
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That dreadful, badly cut shabby old coat and skirt!
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It can cut badly , either flesh or other lines, even itself!
damage
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The Millar Memorial, however, suffered a setback recently when a fire badly damaged their band hall.
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He made several passes in the dark, shot down one B-24 and badly damaged a second.
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It was badly damaged in an accident with car thieves.
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Only four of the 77 passengers were slightly injured while escaping from the emergency exits but the aircraft was badly damaged .
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A bedroom was badly damaged in the blaze, but arson is not suspected.
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Car fire: A car was badly damaged by fire in West Witton, Wensleydale.
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As many as 44 military planes and helicopters had been badly damaged , he acknowledged.
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Many houses some distance from the blast which was close to the nearby police station were badly damaged .
design
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Antiquated equipment, badly designed ballot papers and inefficient vote-counting machinery contributed to the confusion.
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Of course, if his tasks are badly designed they may well make unnecessary demands.
fare
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During the Salazar dictatorship Madeira fared badly , particularly after the revolt in the island in 1931.
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Compared with other nutritious foods, they fared badly .
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The party fared badly at the election in April last year, and Craxi's name has appeared regularly in the inquiries.
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Sangster has also fared badly through his involvement with Classic Thoroughbreds, a more recent venture.
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Ethnic minority groupings, squatters and welfare rights workers, for example, usually fare badly in comparison with statusquo middle-class groups.
feel
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He felt badly in need of a lie-down.
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And we genuinely feel badly about this.
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If he does, that means he is not good enough, and ought to feel badly .
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Mother feels badly enough about your not going to church.
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She said she later felt badly about calling 911, because she did not believe the matter needed police attention.
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Well, I was feeling badly about all this.
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They feel badly about their own school failures, and they know their problems are upsetting to their parents.
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Lois felt badly that she was just now coming around to pay them a call.
go
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It was then that things had gone badly wrong.
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Things go well, and then things go badly .
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Then there is the question of what would happen if things went badly wrong.
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In each, relationships between males and females tend to go badly .
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At this stage, he said, it seems more likely that an attempted mugging went badly wrong.
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If things go badly , I move on to the next thing and don't beat myself up 9.
handle
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This process seems to have been handled badly , even if it is not one that lends itself to sensitive treatment.
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In many cases, they are being handled badly by individual Support staff.
hit
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Vodafone, which could also be badly hit by such a move, lost 10p to 504p.
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The common view, backed up by hard evidence is that investment has been badly hit by the recession.
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It should also drum up more work for a profession that has been badly hit by the recession.
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The refrigeration industry will be the most badly hit .
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The Tapies market was also badly hit .
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So does Huddur - another badly hit town.
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Motorists passing through Tewkesbury have been badly hit .
injure
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He stepped on to the busy road and dragged badly injured Scott clear of the traffic.
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Three years ago, the flocking process contributed to a fire at Malden Mills that badly injured several workers.
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On one occasion William catapulted a lump of metal into a classroom full of pupils and a girl was quite badly injured .
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It swerved off the road; killed three of the children; and badly injured Anne Maguire.
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As a result of this Pyro and his daughter Nancy, who is standing beside him, are both badly injured .
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Sefton was badly injured in the bomb blast in Hyde Park in nineteen eighty-two, but survived.
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He worked at Anderson's factory and was badly injured when a kiln in which he was working collapsed.
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The women were badly injured and two of them have been unable to return to work.
let
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Overall the Fuller could have been a very decent unit but the quality of finish badly lets it down.
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In other matches skippers Kim Barnett and Mark Benson scored centuries but were badly let down by their team-mates.
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Ferguson then said he would buy the title for the fans he had so badly let down.
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Would Merymose, who had been so badly let down by Akhenaten himself, be able to feel any sympathy at all?
need
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Other visitors badly need to experience the royal lavatories: nobody knows where they are.
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That this critically important service is badly needed for all media use goes without saying, and here is a model.
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They badly needed to get off strong Sunday to erase that memory.
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Start thinking Both sides spare themselves awkward questions that badly need to be answered.
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Netcom also has the expertise of working with Internet customers that a telephone company would need badly to succeed in the business.
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Forget the old adage about non-stop bicycling; the growing Community badly needs a decade of constitutional calm.
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We badly need a demystification of the whole process.
pay
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For years after Franco's rule, the army, badly paid and poorly equipped, was viewed with suspicion.
react
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But it reacted badly when he started on examples of government action to extend opportunity.
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Some mares react badly and their reproductive cycles cease or are disrupted.
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Chances were she would react badly .
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Do you react badly to criticism at work?
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They don't like it too hot in summer and they react badly to over-watering.
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Bird lovers reacted badly to earlier attempts to control the birds by poisoning them and removing nests.
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Others began to react badly to various chemicals at about the time they developed candidiasis.
run
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But environmentalists have long claimed that the scheme has been underfunded, badly run and above all exploited by the tourist trade.
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Man, that was a badly run operation.
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We have a wonderful cache of these toys which we picked up in badly run stationers and toy shops.
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I think the big national companies are badly run .
shake
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Stephen saw that Douglas's hands were now shaking badly as he rubbed his face.
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He was badly shaken and needed nine stitches in a head injury.
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She had been badly shaken up and obviously distressed by the experience.
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She had been crying, and was still shaking badly .
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July 1944, failed although he was injured and undoubtedly badly shaken .
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I was badly shaken by that pact.
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An Arab ambassador said he was bruised, looked badly shaken and needed at least two weeks to recover.
sleep
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Louisa had slept badly and dreamed ill.
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She slept badly and felt tired and depressed all day on Sunday even though she saw John briefly late in the evening.
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She had slept badly , tossing and turning in the heat though the room had been cool enough.
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Baldwin slept badly and briefly, uncertain about the wisdom or precision of his nocturnal negotiations.
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He was sleeping badly , and he knew Celia was worried about him.
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Needless to say, Jane slept badly: all her past life rose before her and condemned her present feelings.
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She'd slept badly and felt numb with weariness and grief.
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She slept badly , often waking to listen so that she would not his going in the morning.
start
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Malone started badly when new outhalf Simon Willis missed two penalties in the first ten minutes.
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Paul started badly , bogeying the first.
suffer
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This is the total opposite to that experienced in the recession of the early 80s when our washroom service suffered badly .
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Despite his warnings against escalating prematurely, Giap rashly leaped ahead in 1951 and suffered badly .
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Connah's Quay was also affected with the Englefield Avenue suffering badly .
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She was, however, suffering badly from shock.
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Although I did not get this trouble with my machines, we used to suffer badly when we first got our computer.
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If Richard, who suffers badly from asthma, had children, they might not get asthma.
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The inter-urban trams suffered badly from unlicensed competition during the First World War.
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Britains aerospace industries suffered badly when the cold war ended 4 years ago.
treat
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Some were so badly treated they had to be humanly destroyed.
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Will their children be treated badly in school?
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He said he was not treated badly and that he was with other political prisoners.
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We continually talk to ourselves about them, losing force all the time, and feel that we are very badly treated .
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It was also beginning to vex Hal, who was treated badly by those wider than him.
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Lovely, simple, and demure. Badly treated by her family and underappreciated.
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He was treated badly by most of the people around him.
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But all women here are treated badly .
want
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North, badly wanting to shut him up, tried to convince him it was otherwise.
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He badly wanted to believe it.
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Yet he badly wanted her to.
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She had badly wanted to help Glover arrange his furniture when the time came for him to move into his new quarters.
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Despite everything he had drunk already that night he badly wanted a brandy - and a large one at that.
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As he badly wanted a job with Salomon Brothers, he knew exactly what I had to do.
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Hoskyns badly wanted him for the post.
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I badly wanted the job of fifth-grade safety monitor because Mrs Lambertson said it required supreme bravery.
wounded
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Both Mccullin and Page were badly wounded , the latter was left with a steel plate in his brain.
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The Army surgeons at Long Binh operated immediately, despite all the badly wounded troops they had to attend to.
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The animal is not badly wounded .
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Badly wounded , Bourbonnais left for downriver some months later.
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The station was overflowing with badly wounded who had already been waiting for treatment for several days.
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Ricketts' battery was also hit, with Ricketts himself falling badly wounded .
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Braque badly wounded , Léger gassed, Derain unscathed but reduced to decorating shell cases.
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In the confusion his brother was badly wounded and two men were killed.
write
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I have never taken the Financial Times, finding it dull, badly written and vulgarly obsessed with money.
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However, it was badly written and the long-term effects not thought through.
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We would, of course, expect people to judge that the passages in which there was a conflict were badly written .
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I could not tell whether she was smiling because the book amused her or because it was so badly written .
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If they decided it was badly written they were asked to rewrite it.
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The songs are often badly written .
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And no one who writes badly ever succeeded in doing that.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
augur well/badly/ill
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Enjoyment of one's past job does not augur well for contentment in the role of housewife.
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In another development that does not augur well for transatlantic trade, Zoellick formally asked the U.S.
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It hardly augurs well - especially as none of them have won an international in Paris.
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Such potential augurs well for the 1990s.
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That augured well for the day.
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That, at least, augured well.
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This augurs well for the future and underlines the truth that music as a universal language is an important resource for ecumenism.
badly off for sth
be badly cut up
be well/clearly/badly signposted
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Big Pit is about a male out of Blaenafon on the B4248, and is well signposted .
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There are well signposted walks, some of them offering views of the snow-topped Alps.
carefully/well/badly thought-out
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But new-wave sanitation experts say sewerage offers little more than convenience when compared to well thought-out latrines.
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Each section is well thought-out and presented with a good number of diagrams and chromatograms.
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It is here that the value of well thought-out objectives can be seen.
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The system is a well thought-out one and seems to work well.
fare well/badly/better etc
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I think the men fared better than the women.
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It can be seen that, whilst all regions reflected the higher national unemployment rate, some regions fared better than others.
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It still fared better than the broader market.
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Life may be regarded as an austere struggle, blighted by fate, where only the rich and the lucky fare well.
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Not faring well, but resting.
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Obviously some clothiers fared better than others for there were quite a large number of bankruptcies between 1800 and 1840.
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The Bloomberg Indiana Index fared better than the benchmark Standard&.
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There is no reason to believe that diabetic patients fare better and they may do less well.
go down well/badly/a treat etc
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It went down a treat with the matrons in safe seats like South-west Surrey.
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It seems to be going down a treat.
go off well/badly etc
pass off well/badly etc
perform well/badly etc
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After they had performed well in the role, these women made prestigious marriages, as does Cinderella.
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All this works only if Hanson's headquarters performs well in its non-executive role.
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Anthony Record, Britannia's chairman, said Actron had overcome its problems and was performing well.
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Is a nominated subcontractor really likely to perform better than the subcontractor's own subcontractor?
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Organizations need some degree of structure to perform well.
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This propellant combination performs well and permits a fairly compact vehicle design.
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To perform well a team needs a range of roles in its make-up.
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Yet these stocks performed well in both.
think badly of sb
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I could easily go in and request part-time work, and no one would think badly of me.
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Try not to think badly of me.
well/badly/carefully etc organized
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From everything I saw and heard, he seemed to be very well organized in Iowa.
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In parliament there would be a carefully organized campaign of resistance that would at least slow the government down and raise Unionist morale.
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Now that the partisans were well organized in the Province of Parma they committed many acts of sabotage.
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Others around us, and we ourselves, demand that we always be well organized and hopeful.
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Professionals are well organized , never seen by their victims, and they don't kill.
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The anti-London lobby, however, was well organized and had financial arguments to back its case.
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They can also be extraordinarily well organized and methodical, as well as deliberate and purposeful.
well/beautifully/badly etc turned out
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He looks trim and well turned out in a new dark suit.
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Mr. Russ's deputy was Mr. Windust, then probably in his late thirties - always smart and well turned out.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a badly written story
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Adams admitted that he had played badly .
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Did you sprain it badly ?
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It's often taught very badly .
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It was badly damaged in the storm.
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Lorna speaks Spanish so badly that no one in our class can understand her.
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She wanted to go so badly .
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The company had been badly managed from the start.
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The refugees badly need food and clean water.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But all women here are treated badly .
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Grammar and spelling have never been so badly neglected.
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In the event the poll was countermanded, but the affair reflected badly on the government and the Janata Dal.
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Once again she suffered badly from morning-sickness although it wasn't as bad as the first time.
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One of the missionaries has been badly beaten and stabbed.
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Some mares react badly and their reproductive cycles cease or are disrupted.
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Was it Dominic's fault that he had been given the job she wanted so badly ?
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We talked earlier about the computer marketing firm that had badly botched one of its first major corporate sales.