Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [v-ing] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Brazil beat Italy 4-1 in the final of the 1970 World Cup the style of their triumph was a cry of defiance against the organisation men , the managers and coaches who insisted on getting things right in defence before even thinking about the imaginative attacking play which should be the game 's apotheosis at this level . |
| 2 | Decide on what core units you 're going to have before even thinking about the rest of your army . |
| 3 | Brutus again talks of Caesar 's authority becoming corrupt because of using it without really thinking about the consequences . |
| 4 | Furthermore , it is not possible to talk about the " type " of thing substance is without actually talking about the substance itself , for substance is by definition one , and any suggestion that there might be different specimens of it is incoherent . |
| 5 | It models precisely the position of alienation vis-a-vis design and society felt on the one hand by designers — who in general express profound unease at even thinking about the social sphere — and who embody this alienation in the very fabric of design practice ( mass housing is the obvious example ) — and on the other by society in general which remains both deeply suspicious of designers and their possible beneficial work and , paradoxically , deeply uncertain about objects — or , more precisely , about the significance of their form . |