11.  Political parties have often been attacked as bad things in the body politic.

12.  Prolonged cold spells on reasonably full lakes are not a bad thing.

13.  She accused Nanny of making up stories about her and saying bad things to get Frankie into trouble.

14.  She simply refuses to accept defeat, no matter how bad things seem.

15.  She was a bad kid who did bad things.

16.  Smallfry had forgotten to warn him because he had done so many bad things and caused a lot of trouble.

17.  Sometimes he did bad things just to be loved, and sometimes he hated himself for needing love so badly.

18.  That is a bad thing in itself, for it means less competition and more wasted resources.

19.  That might be no bad thing.

20.  The techniques of the coffee table brigade were seeping through into academia, which was no bad thing.