Example sentences of "a [noun sg] involve a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( But see Murphy v Culhane [ 1977 ] QB 94 for a case involving a criminal affray where the plaintiff got more than he bargained for and it was stated that the defence could apply . ) |
| 2 | Ex parte Handscomb was a case involving a discretionary life sentence , and on 23 July 1987 the Secretary of State made a further policy statement explaining some modifications to the procedure . |
| 3 | Similarly in a case involving a French corporation , an order for depositions and document production at the offices of New York attorneys was not regarded as in conflict with the Convention ; all that was to happen on French soil was ‘ certain acts preparatory to the giving of evidence ’ , the selection of appropriate employees to travel to New York and of relevant documents to be disclosed in New York . |
| 4 | The same principles need to extend throughout community care , so that the medical approach to disability becomes just one part of a response involving a whole range of agencies , professions and interests . |
| 5 | ( Whereas a primary involved a formal ballot , a caucus consisted of local meetings at which a head count was made of those supporting each of the candidates and , therefore , tended to involve fewer but more committed participants . ) |
| 6 | If we take Cournot 's time-honoured example of the mineral water duopoly , with the exception that we suppose developing a spring involves a fixed cost F , after which all the water desired can be extracted at a constant marginal cost ( of c , possibly zero ) , then we have a natural monopoly in the sense that average cost is continually declining . |
| 7 | A teenager has appeared in court after a schoolgirl was killed in a crash involving a stolen car . |
| 8 | Meanwhile the funeral has been held of a fifteen year old girl who was killed in a crash involving a stolen car . |
| 9 | In addition , a flask exercise is held in conjunction with British Rail , when a crash involving a spent fuel transport flask is simulated and a full programme of safety measures and recovery tested . |
| 10 | As the co-ordinator of a process involving a wide range of different individuals and agencies , the practitioner must be able to communicate effectively with people from very different backgrounds and with different perspectives , attitudes and levels of expertise . |
| 11 | Localized wage bargaining was symbolic of the decentralization of decision-making in general , a process involving a profound change in managerial culture . |
| 12 | Give a presentation involving a personal point of view on a complex subject cogently and with clarity , integrating talk with writing as appropriate , eg using hand-outs or visual aids , and respond appropriately to the presentations of others . |
| 13 | This is because it has been assumed ( e.g. by Argyle and Cook , 1976 ) that monitoring the behaviour of a listener involves a certain amount of attention and often increases the speaker 's level of arousal . |
| 14 | What is more , the use of to with the infinitive seems to betoken , as with prepositional to , a relation involving a spatial entity : a preposition relates an element conceived as a spatial entity ( a substantive or pronoun ) to something else . |
| 15 | Making a lute involves a fair amount of musical detective work . |
| 16 | Though in fact the development did not proceed , the use of the SDO procedure for such a purpose involved a high degree of central involvement in local planning decisions . |
| 17 | To the general public , understandably , it was not always clear whether the creation of a Commonwealth involved a grand gesture of renunciation on Britain 's part , or a grand gesture of affirmation on the part of those who took up the option . |
| 18 | If a fire involves a chemical compound the chances are it can be more toxic . ’ |
| 19 | A fragment of a poem in a Berlin papyrus edited by Wilamowitz alludes to an episode involving a Hellenistic king against the Gauls : the rest is left to our imagination ( D. L. Page , Greek Literary Papyri I , 463 ) . |
| 20 | For the professional footballer whose plans and aspirations require physical fitness , an accident involving a permanent disability is likely to be seen as disastrous . |
| 21 | The change from being a child to an adult involves a great deal more than physical and biological change . |
| 22 | Nigel Anthony Cross , 20 , of Billingham , and Ian Donoghue , 23 , of Wheatley Hill , County Durham , are are to appear in court this morning following an incident involving a stolen car in which three police officers were injured outside Mill House Leisure Centre in Hartlepool . |
| 23 | By January 1593 an incident involving a royal servant coming to serve process on a member of his household had resulted in two spells in prison . |
| 24 | An 18-year-old man of no fixed abode appeared at Teesside magistrates court yesterday charged with aggravated burglary in connection with an incident involving a 58-year-old woman in her home in North Ormesby on Thursday . |
| 25 | In the early decades of the sixteenth century , Copernicus devised a new astronomy , an astronomy involving a moving earth , which challenged the Aristotelian and Ptolemaic system . |
| 26 | Let us turn to another definition that would give the context-dependent nature of such phenomena more centrality : ( 12 ) Pragmatics is the study of the relations between language and context that are basic to an account of language understanding Here the term language understanding is used in the way favoured by workers in artificial intelligence to draw attention to the fact that understanding an utterance involves a great deal more than knowing the meanings of the words uttered and the grammatical relations between them . |
| 27 | Refuelling and re-ammunitioning these vessels and those protecting an anchorage involved a complex fleet-train of ships in the Pacific , sometimes operating nearly 2,000 miles ( 3,700+km ) from its nearest land-base . |