Converse of object

• become: The Tax Credit system has become a complete shambles.

• look: Even with plenty of ball, England had looked a shambles.

• make: The ' Connecting Derby ' scheme is continuing to make a shambles of Victoria Street.

• compare: When they are a pathetic shambles compared to what they could be, I suffer.

• see: Thank goodness he did not live to see the shambles that turned into the Tories ' privatization of the railways.

• explain: Question: How do you explain the shambles surrounding the introduction of the new tax credit system?

Preposition: at

• back: Goodness me what a shambles at the back during the Cheltenham draw at the KC Stadium.

Adjective modifier

• utter: With that we left the utter shambles of the fall of Singapore.

• bloody: The handling of FMD must have been a cockup, or more precisely a total bloody shambles.

• absolute: The Immigration Policy of the Government is an absolute shambles.

• complete: The result of the events of 1996 was a complete shambles in the asylum system.

• total: The ensemble dancing is in fact all over the place and ends in a total shambles.

• current: The current shambles illustrates the folly of allowing Mr Clarke to stay on to sort out the mess.

Noun used with modifier

• planning: Well done, Surrey, for using the ' planning shambles ' to resist this invasion.

• flesh: Flesh shambles were flesh benches or stalls where meat was once sold in medieval times.

• law: A TERRIBLE SHAMBLES 29 June 2006 MINISTERS must take responsibility for the latest terror law shambles.

• deportation: Labor government's deportation shambles - Chilean who escaped Pinochet to be sent to Jamaica Submitted by tony on 30 May 2006 - 10:00am.

Possessives

• butcher: The livestock market and butchers ' shambles used to take place in the market place and the yards of the inns along Sun Street.

Preposition: in

• system: The result of the events of 1996 was a complete shambles in the asylum system.

Preposition: of

• government: On Tuesday Michael Howard captured the mood of a nation longing for something better than this shambles of a government.