21.   Making matters worse, our system financially punishes people for being seriously ill and not dying quickly enough.

22.   Many family arguments are made worse because people are afraid of losing their dignity.

23.   Measures to slow down traffic on the main street have actually made things worse.

24.   Some smogs can be made worse when pollution is imported from outside the city boundary from neighbouring urban-industrial areas.

25.   The old photos of Maggie, straight and young and demure though she looks, make it worse.

26.   The problem is made worse by the lack of a central authority for water management.

27.   The problems were made worse by the ineffectual political leadership of the coalition.

28.   The stuffiness in the hold was made worse by the acrid smell of unwashed bodies.

29.   The tablets seemed to make him worse.