Example sentences of "[vb -s] [v-ing] the [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | First , it involves bringing the exclusion directly to the attention of the buyer . |
| 5 | It involves bringing the piece itself before a Committee of State experts ; they declare its value and charge 100% Custom fees . |
| 6 | As a mode of explanation it involves bringing the outside in , and linking the particular to the general . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The second error involves completing the sentence fragment with an inappropriate type of content . |
| 9 | As such , it involves using the survey as a method which , through its design , allows for the testing of theoretically derived hypotheses : this was partly consequent upon the development of statistical methodology . |
| 10 | This can produce bad posture and always involves using the eyes . |
| 11 | The process involves using the ants as tools , and is achieved in one of two ways . |
| 12 | Ergativity involves using the object of a transitive verb as the subject of an intransitive verb : cf. An explosion shook the room and The room shook ( with the explosion ) . |
| 13 | The Japanese machines will knit lace from specially produced and marked cards and this involves using the lace carriage for many transfer rows in between two knitted rows with the main carriage . |
| 14 | Finally , the formulation stage involves using the results of the assessment process to identify objectives , plans , and strategies . |
| 15 | The piece also involves using the potential of the spindle moulder to create solid shapes . |
| 16 | This involves helping the patient develop alternative and less self-blaming ideas about how other people behave towards her , and examining with her the origins and validity of her underlying sense of worthlessness . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The work also involves relocating the kitchen and lounge area to the ground floor and resiting the main entrance . |
| 19 | For example , a rule that prohibits bringing the exchange into disrepute can not be read cold from the rulebook . |
| 20 | In 208 he writes : ‘ I want to ask : what constitutes seeing the figure now like this , now another way ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Surgery involves opening the sinus from the outside , flushing and allowing free drainage into the nasal passage . |
| 23 | The non-Power Launcher way of doing things normally involves opening the program group your application is in , finding the icon and double clicking on it , accepting that any other windows you may have open at the time will be overwritten if the application starts up maximised . |
| 24 | The treatment involves relating the enthalpy of mixing to the cohesive energy density and defines a solubility parameter , where E is the molar energy of vaporization and V is the molar volume of the component . |
| 25 | ‘ the application of tariff principles requires the sentencer to find the sentence which most accurately reflects the offender 's culpability , a process which involves relating the gravity of the offence to the established pattern of sentences for offences of that kind , and then making allowance for such mitigating factors as may be present which tend to reduce the offender 's culpability . |
| 26 | This involves reconstruing the situation so that it looks more straightforward and easy to handle , thus allowing sides to be taken or a stance adopted which reduces the confusion and allows at least some action to be taken — a villain to be defeated , a wrong to be righted , a battle to be fought . |
| 27 | The next exercise involves simplifying the figure into blocks and cylinders , so that you build up in your mind a conception of the body as a solid object . |
| 28 | The next exercise involves simplifying the figure into blocks and cylinders , so that you build up in your mind a conception of the body as a solid object . |
| 29 | One such method involves sprinkling the lawn with water at dusk . |
| 30 | A second method involves sprinkling the lawn with a very dilute solution of potassium permanganate ( 200 mg/5 litres ) . |