Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was interesting seeing publishing from the top . ’ |
| 2 | So this slightly different than looking for angles is n't it . |
| 3 | But Hilary Witt , head of Cambridgeshire 's catering service , admits : ‘ The trouble is , going into a school hall for dinner is less exciting than going into the Wimpy bar . |
| 4 | Well I do n't like office , I love hotels and I think having meetings in a hotel 's more civilized than sitting in an office . |
| 5 | But it 's less risky than pointing to totally unknown items on a menu . |
| 6 | It also brought Victorian attitudes dictating that dancing lessons in dance schools were more acceptable than dancing at large public Assemblies . |
| 7 | Be very careful if ordering from a catalogue and not actually seeing the plants in full growth ; read the descriptions most carefully . |
| 8 | Paul Hillyer the Club solicitor pointed out , and confirmed an earlier concern , that the Wine Sub-Committee ( established in 1962 to comply with the Licensing Act 1961 ) might be unconstitutional if voting for its members was not open to all membership categories . |
| 9 | So I 'm telling you Mr that I 'm not unemployed because according to the Government figures I am not . |
| 10 | Her back was as straight as a ramrod , which made her feel a little more dignified while engaging in what she considered the unladylike art of cycling . |
| 11 | At a level where either the commander concerned or the typist could not render ‘ Marxist ’ correctly in Russian , it seems doubtful whether rejoicing for the Paris Commune would be very well informed or sincere . |
| 12 | It is quite different when dealing with a country as big as France in terms of population and area . |
| 13 | Soft-centred milk chocolates that came as one bit them seemed almost as exciting as dancing with someone you knew you were about to sleep with used to be . |
| 14 | With weeks , sometimes months between the issue of travel documents and their actual use , frequent changes in timetabling and the inevitable delays on overworked railways and sea routes , predicting when and where a transport would arrive was about as reliable as betting on a roulette wheel . |
| 15 | Equation 7.7 can be compared with the earlier expression for geodesic deviation : taking account of the sign change in the spatial components of the metric when passing from Euclidean to Minkowski space . |
| 16 | Mr Bumble was only brave when dealing with poor , helpless people . |
| 17 | It can be fairly clear when looking for something physical , but in trying to find earth energies there are difficulties in determining what comes from the individual and what from the site . |
| 18 | It is clear when talking to people like Papert , Monpetit ( who heads LOGO Computer Systems in Montreal ) , or Dr Harry Goldberger , director of the medical programme , that they are not simply colleagues . |
| 19 | I had chosen the right moment , because I found him , not so much irresolute as musing on the possibility of being wiped out by ‘ a stray bomb ’ . |
| 20 | I have expanded on the teaching of English as exemplifying in a particularly clear way the distinction between the practical and the theoretical . |
| 21 | Use hardwood if possible because it is less likely to deflect under load , but a softwood bar is usually adequate when dealing with short lengths . |
| 22 | One should n't be narrow-minded when looking for a man 's weakness . ’ |
| 23 | You should always be very careful when dealing with persuasive equipment sales people . |
| 24 | Without the safety net of a staff job , she had to be even more than usually careful when dealing with the fragile egos of those who appeared before the cameras — one adverse comment and she could find herself facing nothing but closed doors . |
| 25 | You have to be very careful when prowling along the shelves . |
| 26 | This too is worth a try if it 's not obvious what else might be amiss , but you have to be very careful when dusting off the components . |
| 27 | I noted what the hon. Gentleman said in his biblical reference ; it occurred to me that he should be a little more careful when talking about St. Paul . |
| 28 | Be extra careful when walking along country roads . |
| 29 | Apart from branches of psychology , laboratory experiments in which factors were manipulated in order to achieve the necessary control were clearly impracticable when dealing with , say , the effects of educational attainment on voting choice . |
| 30 | SCOTLAND 'S industrial base has shrunk so dramatically that there are almost as many people unemployed as working in manufacturing , previously unpublished figures showed yesterday , writes Joy Copley . |