Example sentences of "[vb -s] [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The plan involves building an enormous tapering chimney , up to 3,000 feet high and 1,000 feet across the base . |
| 3 | The accounting-based approach involves forecasting the entire balance sheet . |
| 4 | It involves sucking the contaminated oil into a cleaning system housed in a mobile trailer , cleaning it and returning it to the transformer . |
| 5 | This research project first involves contacting a representative sample of 12,000 British manufacturing companies . |
| 6 | Planning involves simulating a difficult or irreversible search . |
| 7 | The scheme involves dredging the main channel of the Medway estuary to provide a storage base for import-export cargoes . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Play-pens are now having to be made to a new British Standard , which involves using a simulated ‘ bite ’ test . |
| 10 | The second part of the project involves using the new insights which preferred point geometry offers to make practical the methods which both the new and existing theories produce . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | One of these involves using the hind leg to scratch an area of skin to which an irritant has been applied . |
| 13 | The tough love hurts the family member not simply because it involves allowing the primary sufferer to experience the full painful consequences of addictive disease but also because it involves the family member in resisting his or her own addictive urges to " fix " all the problems and manage the life of the primary sufferer . |
| 14 | One involves generating a short-lived species in the gas phase , by photolysis , thermolysis , chemical reaction , discharge , etc . |
| 15 | Having failed in its attempt to induce individuals by offering to pay £1,000 per borehole , it is now attempting a new strategy which involves inducing the whole community . |
| 16 | This involves unscrewing the retaining nut , removing the end cap and plunger and prising out the old diaphragm with a small screwdriver . |
| 17 | Building a home is a more demanding business altogether since it necessarily involves assembling the right materials , deciding on a layout and somehow fastening things together . |
| 18 | For the current purpose , demonstrating that they were different is sufficient to illustrate two main points : that understanding a place involves uncovering the multivariate and inter-related nature of its culture , for which the three components of the schema in chapter 3 provide a valuable framework ; and that without understanding the nature of a place in all its complexity , it is difficult to appreciate what happens there during particular events — simple , monocausal explanations ( often located in the sphere of production ) are usually insufficient . |
| 19 | It also involves understanding the linguistic cues ( deductive markers ) which can be used to signal the empirical/deductive distinction . |
| 20 | If your idea is contrary to my idea your idea must be eliminated , especially if it starts getting a territorial foothold , and might just possibly catch on . ’ |
| 21 | You can feel the brake and then you pick up the feel of the tyre and it starts moving a little bit . |
| 22 | if you have it wants treating no good waiting till you 're really ill is it ? |
| 23 | The wine needs re-corking every twenty years . |
| 24 | So if he starts coming the old soldier she can bung him out . |
| 25 | Oh he adores her , oh yes he wants her back , and I said , she said , I , you see , I know him , I said there 's a lot to be said for a chap that you know inside , know his ways and know how to cope with them , but I said never ever put yourself at his mercy , I 'm marrying him , and the house will be hers , you see , when there properly divorced it 'll be in her name so if he starts coming the old soldier , she can bung him out . |
| 26 | Now I 'm gon na turn it off for a little while until everyone starts having a proper conversation . |
| 27 | Bono , the insurgent , irrepressible singer for Dublin quartet U2 , finishes making a hard point using a typically animated gesture . |
| 28 | He returns to the same circumstances as before , to associate with the same peer group , and starts behaving the same way as before . |
| 29 | ‘ And when ordinary mundane light like a car 's headlights starts making the immaterial perceptible . |
| 30 | He considers taking an early flight because it is the quickest , doubts whether it will give him time to prepare and settles for the quickest later flight ; he wants to be bothered with as few suitcases as possible , starts packing the biggest he has , finds the lock broken and chooses another . |