11.   Could the situation get any worse?

12.   The MP leading an inquiry into drugs abuse in Scotland claims the situation is getting worse.

13.   Unless more part-timers can be recruited, the situation could get worse.

14.   The National Rivers Authority says the situation will get worse before it gets better.

15.   And the situation is getting worse... in the past five years the number of reported cases of serious backpain has risen by forty percent.

16.   But another Darlington GP, who asked not to be named, said the waiting list situation is getting out of hand.

17.   The British commander, Maj Alan Abraham, decided the situation was getting too dangerous, said Maj Martin Waters, an army spokesman.

18.   Bad today, the situation will get worse when in a few years the number of potential recruits begins to decline.

19.   And Foreman fears the situation will get worse before it gets better.

20.   And in the wild west atmosphere of the Net, with no standards as yet agreed upon, the situation could have gotten messy.