Example sentences of "[vb -s] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 7 It 's terrific to see her without the bars between us. 8 She sits eating the treat food at the opening to the door and looking at me. 9 How does she know to look into my eyes and not at the huge finger next to her . |
| 2 | Plainly , indexing on the text of a document involves indexing every word , some of which do not convey any subject concepts . |
| 3 | The work , which is interesting but time-consuming , involves maintaining the almshouse , or the Dakyn Flats as it is now more popularly known , and other properties owned by the trust and from which rents are collected . |
| 4 | A more definitive operation involves building a ‘ bypass ’ around the blockage using bits of surplus blood vessel from other parts of the body . |
| 5 | This project involves building a new econometric macro-model of the UK economy that will incorporate this new theory if it proves consistent with UK evidence . |
| 6 | The $5.5 billion project involves building a cascade of dams on the Narmada River with the aim of providing drinking water , irrigation and hydro-electric power . |
| 7 | The scheme , whose cost is to be shared by Thames Water and the National Rivers Authority , involves building a 10-mile underground pipe to pump water from chalk pits at Northfleet to the river 's middle reaches when necessary . |
| 8 | The plan involves building an enormous tapering chimney , up to 3,000 feet high and 1,000 feet across the base . |
| 9 | The CSO perspective is one that involves producing a market scenario to compare with the observed mixed economy that exists . |
| 10 | The accounting-based approach involves forecasting the entire balance sheet . |
| 11 | Basque pelota looks like being this year 's corker as it involves catching a tennis ball in a fruit bowl and throwing it at a wall ( below left ) . |
| 12 | It involves sucking the contaminated oil into a cleaning system housed in a mobile trailer , cleaning it and returning it to the transformer . |
| 13 | This research project first involves contacting a representative sample of 12,000 British manufacturing companies . |
| 14 | Enumerating known drug users involves contacting the management representatives of statutory and voluntary agencies whose clienteles include drug users , in order to obtain permission to collect information about these clients . |
| 15 | Discerning involves drawing a conclusion as to the identity of an object based on careful scrutiny . |
| 16 | Planning involves simulating a difficult or irreversible search . |
| 17 | The scheme involves dredging the main channel of the Medway estuary to provide a storage base for import-export cargoes . |
| 18 | It involves bringing the piece itself before a Committee of State experts ; they declare its value and charge 100% Custom fees . |
| 19 | Often sounding like there 's no one driving , Mark 's recipe for recording involves bringing the barest bones of a song into the studio , letting the musicians bend it , stretch it , squash it , cook it and generally rip it to shreds , before setting about trying to sort out the sparks from the farts . |
| 20 | First , it involves bringing the exclusion directly to the attention of the buyer . |
| 21 | As a mode of explanation it involves bringing the outside in , and linking the particular to the general . |
| 22 | A crucial clement in family therapy involves encouraging the autonomy of family members in working out their own solutions to problems and taking responsibility for their own actions , the therapist acting largely as an independent facilitator . |
| 23 | The second error involves completing the sentence fragment with an inappropriate type of content . |
| 24 | If your job involves using a till , you will be given training in how to operate it . |
| 25 | This involves using a filtration process which basically makes the solid content of the milk much higher allowing it to set better , making it smooth , thick and above all , consistent . |
| 26 | Play-pens are now having to be made to a new British Standard , which involves using a simulated ‘ bite ’ test . |
| 27 | Treatment involves using a very messy ointment which marks the sheets . |
| 28 | The NI table method involves using the Not contracted-out Tables , as follows : |
| 29 | Basically this involves using the right foot to draw the ball into the post from the left side of the field and the left foot to do the same from the right side . |
| 30 | This can produce bad posture and always involves using the eyes . |