Example sentences of "involved [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that time we were also building a similar data base on another CAD system , which involved re-writing all software to suit . |
| 2 | This involved using existing data and also meetings with representatives from organisations involved in economic development in the valley . |
| 3 | A third , and crucially important , experiment involved using external stimuli to influence the content of dreaming itself . |
| 4 | One involved using whole word shape to help determine segment positions and to allow for letter shape variations within words . |
| 5 | The business proposition ‘ involved using specialised IT applications to develop a bespoke service to the design , construction and maintenance of buildings , with an integrated costing service that enabled design , build and cost to be integrated ’ . |
| 6 | But the operation , involved keeping thirty officers on standby , , including undercover officers and traffic patrols , was expensive … thirty thousand has been spent in overtime alone … so the operation was scaled down … again the displays started … again the Police moved in … |
| 7 | The job , which involved surveying three wells for tubing change-out , was doubly challenging since the only way to reach the plant was to drive along the beach in a four-wheel drive vehicle . |
| 8 | The treatment involved walking three times round the shore and then departing , without looking back . |
| 9 | The new US approach fell short of outright recognition for Bazin 's government , but involved urging exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to meet with Bazin , whereas the earlier US position had been that Aristide should choose his own Prime Minister prior to his return to the country . |
| 10 | After realizing that it also involved reordering agrarian relations he proceeded to fall under the spell of Mikhail Pozen , a large landowner from Poltava who was determined to prevent emancipation from damaging the interests of the gentry . |
| 11 | The approach that involved marking individual plants or seedlings in the field , tracing the fate of individual leaves as they are pulled down earthworm burrows , the behaviour of tendrils as they touch a support , the fate of insects as they land on a Drosera leaf , or recording the number of seeds at the bottom of an earthworm burrow , represented a reductionist level of concentrated observation that contrasted with the geographical view of vegetation with which Warming and others set the early direction of plant ecology . |
| 12 | This involved rushing several buckets of water into his improvised shelter . |
| 13 | This involved adding further fields of information relating to these staff to the " persons " data base , including job titles , pay and allowances and the date the person took up his/her present post . |
| 14 | Work on the site for the stalls began three weeks ago and involved installing individual water standpipes to allow each trailer to link up with a hose . |
| 15 | The Capitulary of Thionville in 805 , for instance , forbids usury , the kind of usury which involved buying cheap corn in quantity and selling it at excessive profit in times of scarcity . |
| 16 | But the dig , which involved drilling three holes , was called off after all they found were eighteenth century foundations . |
| 17 | The government was planning an $8,000 million investment programme to double electricity-generating capacity over the next 10 years , while short-term measures to alleviate the problem involved importing movable power generators aboard floating barges . |
| 18 | Frederick Starr calls the second and third principles " decentralization " ( which involved giving local officials more power but preserved the notion of bureaucratic or " ministerial " hegemony ) and " self-government " ( which meant introducing representative organs and giving non-bureaucrats in the provinces a larger say in the management of their affairs ) . |
| 19 | ‘ We learnt a lot during this first phase , which involved giving detailed presentations to technical experts — and our competitors ’ , he added . |
| 20 | Piaget 's sentence completion study involved asking seven-to nine-year-olds to write completions for each of the following written sentence fragments : |
| 21 | Among their little exercises in search of conclusions was that which involved asking 55 schoolchildren to list expressions meaning stupid person . |
| 22 | Also on Jan. 1 Havel declared an amnesty which involved pardoning certain categories of short-term prisoners and reducing the sentences of others . |
| 23 | The ISA project took five years to complete and involved examining basic auditing principles and essential procedures to ensure that ISAs adequately addressed IOSCO members ' concerns . |
| 24 | All of this involved taking both parents ’ sex cells with their half-complement of DNA signals in the chromosomes , and bringing them together so that the cells could clamp on to each other and start dividing and growing . |
| 25 | ‘ For example , last summer the Royal Bank did a deal which involved issuing depositary shares in the US . |
| 26 | The third stage involved selecting 22 addresses in each polling district . |
| 27 | The general case for amending the ways in which the reforms operated in practice , involved adapting imported principles to meet particular interpretations of Japan 's national interest . |
| 28 | The police officer replied that they involved showing certain exhibits to Anderson and putting certain questions . |
| 29 | What enraged the liberals was that this involved placing political appointees at much lower levels of the hierarchies than had been usual , to increase the positive responsiveness of the bureaucracy to his policies . |
| 30 | This behaviour encouraged a more sophisticated experiment which involved placing two aluminium plates 3 metres apart in the tank . |