Example sentences of "[vb -s] [v-ing] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can produce bad posture and always involves using the eyes . |
| 2 | The process involves using the ants as tools , and is achieved in one of two ways . |
| 3 | Finally , the formulation stage involves using the results of the assessment process to identify objectives , plans , and strategies . |
| 4 | This involves allowing the children home on trial , a practice that has increased sharply since 1948 , and taking whatever steps are necessary to rehabilitate the family so that full parental responsibility can be resumed . |
| 5 | The task usually involves explaining the meanings other people 's actions have to them and , because these are rarely isolated or intelligible in isolation , re-creating other mental worlds . |
| 6 | It 's one of my jobs to meet the boats and this involves assembling the visitors and talking to them for a short while about the wildlife and rules of the island . |
| 7 | The crudest of these involves matching the centroids of source and target units by minimum distance nearest neighbour techniques . |
| 8 | Told him , selling a million pounds worth of flour e er flour a year and he had his twenty first coming up and apparently , he starts spilling the beans |
| 9 | ‘ That 's precisely what I imagine it 's like , Sonic Youth playing over a Mondays track , ’ agrees Hugo , as Sam starts espousing the virtues of ‘ Bummed ’ and how ‘ the best bands do n't know what their appeal is ’ . |
| 10 | The female eider duck is abandoned by her drake just as soon as she starts incubating the eggs . |
| 11 | He 's quite useful , loves cleaning the boots and the brass and all that stuff . " |
| 12 | Lepine turns around and starts spraying the students in the front rows with gunfire . |
| 13 | You know , suppose parliament starts breaking the rules and acting arbitrarily and I say the mechanism is not clear . |
| 14 | David Lynch has optioned D M Thomas ' story of Freud , a woman and Russia , The White Hotel , and has a more obviously Lynchian novel in development , Delacorta 's Vida , about a 16-year-old who becomes a private eye just as someone starts shooting the architects of America . |
| 15 | At one level , this involves publicising the criteria of eligibility for a full assessment , the various mechanisms for different forms of assessment and the procedure by which people can complain . |
| 16 | Stage 1 Setting Objectives — This involves detailing the objectives of the organization in the long and short term . |
| 17 | This collection is the result of spending 10 months experimenting with different papers , allowing the image to be worked out ‘ in an organic way ’ as she describes defying the confines of the papers ’ rectangle by rearing and adding and building up to works with dimensions reaching over four foot . |
| 18 | It is further evidence that the issue of whether top roles should be split is complex , and that prevailing wisdom , which favours splitting the roles , should be challenged — something Rick Greenbury had the courage to do on his appointment as chairman and chief executive of Marks & Spencer . |
| 19 | One man describes reading the biographies of Maya Angelou , popstars on the radio , vegetables they have been allowed to plant and harvest . |
| 20 | ‘ Fams ’ describes re-starting the Wailers as ‘ rough ’ and it might not be as glorious a gig as playing Zimbabwe 's independence celebrations with Bob , but it 's better than the fate of most reggae elders ; redundancy thanks to computerised ragga . |
| 21 | The final method of investigating hemispheric functional asymmetry in neurologically intact subjects involves analysing the effects of requiring two tasks to be carried out simultaneously . |
| 22 | This involves cleaning the ends of the pipe with solvent cleaner and brushing on solvent-weld cement . |
| 23 | The fetch phase involves extracting the contents of the store location referred to by the program counter , and decoding it into an operation code portion , specifying an operation to be carried out , and an operand portion , specifying a store address ( whose numeric value we will indicate as The program counter is then incremented by one , to point to the next store location in sequence , since this normally holds the next instruction to be executed . |
| 24 | In 1920 Gide recalls walking the streets of Biskra with Dr Bourget of Lausanne . |
| 25 | Successful treatment includes resolving the conflicts that produce depression — conflicts from within our inner life , or outer circumstances . |
| 26 | In order to make the best of a case at this stage most claimants will need advice and assistance because preparing a case for appeal involves three tasks : establishing the facts of the case , understanding the applicable legal rules and integrating facts and law in a well-constructed argument which includes meeting the reasons put forward by the adjudication officer for denying the claim . |
| 27 | Its remit includes addressing the needs of businesses ineligible for either the Official List or the USM but which were not able to raise sufficient finance on a long-term basis elsewhere . |
| 28 | There 's quite a gala atmosphere at Cheltenham this year with one or two circus acts doing the rounds . |
| 29 | Disconnect the mains lead to your PC and plug it into the Expert ; there are two sockets for power leads leaving the UPS , so I checked it out with two PCs . |
| 30 | Richard is interested but wary — he prefers watching the ducks to anything more adventurous . |