Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even the most mercenary of foreign firms grows a little queasier about trading with a regime which shoots dead its citizens , and then tries to score popularity points by offering convict labour to foreign factories ; and even the most unreconstructed optimist can see that the resurgence of hard-line Marxists in the Peking power structure is likely to militate against further free-market reforms . |
| 2 | Both Redworth Hall , Heighington , and Hallgarth Hotel , Coatham Mundeville , have got the go-ahead for their proposed courses , while Romanby golf course , Northallerton , will be opening their 12bay driving range at the end of the month with an 18-hold , 6,660-yard course due for completing by 1994 . |
| 3 | But the death of Freddie Mills due for screening on April 6 is perhaps the most fascinating mystery , because the ex-boxer was so well known and because the case is the most recent . |
| 4 | We were apprehensive about crossing into Algeria . |
| 5 | Or a mature student , apprehensive about coping with study after such a long absence , worried about managing financially and missing your children and family ? |
| 6 | I find it rather rich for eating as a table cheese , but a few spoonfuls stirred into hot pasta is delicious . |
| 7 | The Fao area was repaired to the extent that it was possible for loading to be resumed at a restored Mina al-Bakr terminal . |
| 8 | A spokeswoman for SGS-Thomson said the company discusses investment only on a global , company-wide basis , and has said nothing specific about investing in Malaysia . |
| 9 | This is structured by hourly changes of sail or course , so that the crew can learn as much as possible about handling in the time they are aboard . |
| 10 | Beaten again : Martina Navratilova lost in two straight sets at Flushing Meadow yesterday but she in not definite about retiring from the game . |
| 11 | Well I 've got to make you look respectable for going to bed with , have n't I ? |
| 12 | I lost my temper too — I 'm sorry for shouting about the fire . |
| 13 | I say I 'm sorry for treading on her , but she just looks at me like she do n't understand . |
| 14 | Yacoubou , who attended the Group 's meeting in July , was imprisoned in 1986 for demonstrating in support of democracy , and was released in 1990 . |
| 15 | She felt strangely shy about undressing in front of him , and the look in his eyes told her he understood . |
| 16 | ‘ A lot of people feel shy about going into a Tax Office , so this is a good opportunity for them to get any help they need , ’ explained Peter Guy , the Inland Revenue 's Customer Service Manager in the province . |
| 17 | There is something decidedly odd about objecting to it that the mere psychological fact that one alternative is more pleasant than another can not by itself be a reason for choosing it . |
| 18 | ‘ Sorry about treading on your feet . ’ |
| 19 | The battle was revealed yesterday by Mr Alan Rodmell after he and three friends were fined £50 each for digging for worms on the protected Budle Bay , Lindisfarne , off the coast of Northumberland . |
| 20 | 1965 The Rolling Stones are fined £5 each for urinating in a garage forecourt after a concert in Romford , Essex . |
| 21 | Each club was deader than the last ; frigid and dirty , empty or inhospitable , with Robin increasingly silent and me feeling guilty for living in Hicksville . |
| 22 | She felt immediately guilty for indulging in her own private thoughts . |
| 23 | Much of the value of the method outlined in 6.1 for converting into numbers the phonetic values associated with a variable lies in its simplicity and replicability in a wide range of cases . |
| 24 | A new report by the British Government recommends that overall dietary intakes of DEHA should be reduced and that it is unsuitable for cooking in microwave ovens . |
| 25 | Southend pumps its sewage into the sea after primary treatment ; the beach at Westcliff has just been called unsuitable for swimming by the Heinz Good Beach Guide . |
| 26 | Most of such work was unsuitable for operating in winter when unemployment was highest and when carried out with an untrained labour force it was expensive or inefficient , and failed to attract the temporarily unemployed artisans for whom it was intended . |
| 27 | The buyer found it unsuitable for making into dresses . |
| 28 | At the same time , an industrial holding company was being built up by acquiring firms which , for various reasons , were unsuitable for turning into public companies . |
| 29 | Bronze bound buckets were probably manufactured cold as the metal is unsuitable for shrinking onto wooden staves , unlike iron . |
| 30 | Orimulsion , the new low-cost fuel imported from Venezuela [ see EDs 51 and 52 ] , is unsuitable for burning in power stations because of its unacceptably-toxic emissions and potential for increasing acid pollution , according to a report prepared for British Coal . |