Voorbeelden van messing

• Exploration carries within it implicit beliefs of an unthinking randomness - at worst, a low-level activity akin to 'messing about'.

• The economy may indeed be a "fabrication" that is never quite "complete" (p. 301) because family disputes, fraud, secrecy, and other matters are always messing it up.

• However, their results also show that high achievers are likely to report more 'informal' practice, such as playing their favourite pieces by ear, 'messing about', or improvising.

• But she tended really to be miffed if they were messing with her punctuation or her text in any way, because she was very strict about that.

• So far as possible these shortcomings were rectified and, apart from these matters, the general standard of messing is reported to have been satisfactory.

• We find, more and more, that fifth class engine room artificers are messing with the leading ratings, and the fourth class with the petty officers.

• There is no point in messing about in this fastidious way between two and three points.

• Then as regards pay and allowances, and gratuities of officers regimentally messing.

• I regret it was not possible to provide them with first-class messing accommodation since this was limited to the numbers occupying cabins.

• For both airmen and women, the money allowance includes an allowance for supper; and supper is provided as part of the normal messing arrangements.

• We have got a few ships completely fitted with cafeteria messing.

• I know that it has been improved with cafeteria messing, and so on, but it will always be of the utmost importance.

• It seems only yesterday that one was messing about with a cat's whisker and a crystal and wearing earphones.

• There is nothing languid about my dislike of restrictive practices in foreign countries if they are messing up our domestic industries.

• Admittedly that was not so where the men were eating in the messing room, but where they have their lockers and their equipment.