Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [v-ing] [indef pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not having a copy of Class War : Britain 's Most Unruly Tabloid to hand , and doubtful of getting one at short notice , I ask if he has the telephone number . |
| 2 | He 'd never heard of Vecchi and was n't interested in finding anybody by that name . |
| 3 | On the other hand the counsellor may be assisted by many physical signs which suggest that alcohol is a problem , such as finding lots of empty bottles around , or when an older person is found to be drinking at all times of the day , often alone and not as part of a social occasion . |
| 4 | The Lake District was fortunate in having plenty of fast-running water , not always available in the towns , and cloth to be fulled came to the area from many places . |
| 5 | The beginning of conversation with strangers is all about finding something in common — or , to put it more succinctly and to use a very 1990s ' word , to discover commonality . |
| 6 | He had good taste and was most helpful in extricating one from awkward situations . |
| 7 | This does not imply that existing defectives should be done away with , nor that we should condemn the decision of a couple , whose foetus is at risk , that to have a retarded baby would be preferable to having none at all . |
| 8 | Similarly , we could postulate some alien being capable of seeing nothing at all in the range of wavelengths we call ‘ light ’ but able to see a whole range of colours in the ultraviolet or infrared . |
| 9 | ‘ Irish rugby is something special and down the years we 've proved we 're always capable of producing something like this . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Irish rugby is something special and down the years we 've proved we 're always capable of producing something like this . ’ |
| 11 | Critical for hooking Alphas and VAXes , DEC said the platform would be protocol-independent , capable of handling everything from multi-vendor PC LANs to multi-vendor mainframes . |
| 12 | ‘ Perhaps he 's not capable of appreciating something like that . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ They are both gentle and kind , and are not capable of doing something like this , let alone covering it up with such success . |
| 14 | Christine said thanks to sheer determination and hours of extra work Wesley was now capable of doing anything at all . |
| 15 | These are perhaps best illustrated by the workmen who , for example , seem to be incapable of doing anything without 20-minute tea breaks , management which seems uninterested in providing proper supervision , or boards which seem more interested in finding ways of jacking up their remuneration package irrespective of performance , or complaining to Government about interest rates , rather than wondering why they are not making some of the flood of goods which our continental competitors find it profitable to sell to the UK . |
| 16 | It was even more important to know when evil gods would be in charge so as to avoid trouble as far as possible by doing nothing at such times . |