1. The instructions were badly written and unhelpful.

2. The authorities are being particularly unhelpful.

3. The taxi driver was being very unhelpful.

4. The waiters were rude and unhelpful, the manager ditto.

5. The criticism is both unfair and unhelpful.

6. The shop assistant was rude and unhelpful.

7. I don't need any more of your unhelpful advice!

8. Her comments were perfectly unexceptionable if a little unhelpful.

9. If the bank is unhelpful take it up with the Ombudsman.

10. Unhappy tourists have pointed the finger at unhelpful travel agents.

11. It is unhelpful to extrapolate general trends from one case.

12. This is ultimately unhelpful to women.

13. The customs officials were impatient, rude, and unhelpful.

14. The various official statements are unhelpful in practice.

15. Theological answers, even though correct, can be unhelpful to both of these types, though in different ways.

16. Why is it unhelpful to talk of leadership in terms of qualities?

17. She was driven from pillar to post and each person she spoke to was more unhelpful than the last.

18. The gay and lesbian rights group, Stonewall, sees outing as completely unhelpful.

19. He changed from being a nice lad to being rude and unhelpful.

20. He'll kick and scream when your suggestion turns out to be unhelpful.

21. People always complain that the big banks and big companies are unfriendly and unhelpful.

22. According to the customer survey, 6% said employees were unhelpful and discourteous.

23. On some occasions, however, contextual information might actually be unhelpful in that it might exclude the correct item.

23. Sentencedict.com is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find good sentences for a large number of words.

24. Among the remaining patients, computed tomography was helpful in 19%, but unhelpful or wrong in 23%.

25. Instrumentalists also claim that poulantzas' conception of the state as the factor of cohesion in the social formation is equally unhelpful.

26. A properly planned and monitored investment programme is needed, but ill informed and pejorative assertions are unhelpful.

27. Resolve to practise positive thinking instead and choose to ignore or zap any of these unhelpful, wayward thoughts.

28. Small bowel biopsy and abdominal computed tomography are essential but often unhelpful in early diagnosis.

29. So I took it out on Phil when he did show up which was natural enough I suppose but probably unhelpful.

30. The large number of parses produced are unnecessary and unhelpful in the recognition application.