Example sentences of "it involved [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently it involved developing the muscles of the pelvic floor . |
| 2 | Designed to bolster internal discipline , streamline military structures , cut costs , and discourage military involvement in politics , it involved regrouping the 43,000-strong Army into six regional divisions . |
| 3 | A Corporal had given me a coathanger and a broom and showed me the Foreign Legion 's way of unblocking a difficult lavatory bowl ; it involved unbending the coathanger , jamming it down the U-bend , and working it vigorously backwards and forwards . |
| 4 | It involved using a cannon to fire a harpoon carrying an explosive grenade . |
| 5 | The High Court in Edinburgh does not lay down sentencing guidelines , and in a case in 1987 ruled that the practice of giving a discount for a plea of guilty was objectionable , because it involved offering an accused person an inducement to plead guilty early , and disabled the judge from exercising his discretion fully and freely in any particular case . |
| 6 | British public opinion welcomed the Charter but for the government it involved repudiating the policies of protection and imperial preference , adopted in the depths of the world depression . |
| 7 | The third initiative was somewhat different from all the proceedings one , in that it involved joining a Community Club sponsored by the Alvey Programme . |
| 8 | It involved thrusting a lighted taper into little glass jars and applying them in great haste to Jean-Claude 's back , which would bubble up under them in balloons of skin . |