Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " 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 Plainly , indexing on the text of a document involves indexing every word , some of which do not convey any subject concepts .
3 I used Acrylix brushes to paint the landscape study shown here .
4 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 .
5 The $5.5 billion project involves building a cascade of dams on the Narmada River with the aim of providing drinking water , irrigation and hydro-electric power .
6 The scheme , whose cost is to be shared by Thames Water and the National Rivers Authority , involves building a 10-mile underground pipe to pump water from chalk pits at Northfleet to the river 's middle reaches when necessary .
7 The CSO perspective is one that involves producing a market scenario to compare with the observed mixed economy that exists .
8 The list of recipient church projects is very long , ranging from refurbishment of church buildings to small revenue grants to enable the establishment of local good neighbour ( community care ) schemes .
9 Basque pelota looks like being this year 's corker as it involves catching a tennis ball in a fruit bowl and throwing it at a wall ( below left ) .
10 In the meantime , drivers Frank Galashan and Danny Hopkins are keeping the Waste Recycling lorry moving by taking it in turns to drive the vehicle to Leslie .
11 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 .
12 Discerning involves drawing a conclusion as to the identity of an object based on careful scrutiny .
13 First , it involves bringing the exclusion directly to the attention of the buyer .
14 It involves bringing the piece itself before a Committee of State experts ; they declare its value and charge 100% Custom fees .
15 As a mode of explanation it involves bringing the outside in , and linking the particular to the general .
16 They will of course charge for doing the job , but if you appoint somebody else as an executor and that person goes to see a solicitor the solicitor will also be charging for the job .
17 Until such time as the Secretary of State agrees to such a Commission , the Council agrees to support the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities ' call for a policy of non-co-operation between the Authority and The Scottish Office over the question of local government reorganisation .
18 Prior to the Peres visit , Japan had on Dec. 4 issued a call for an end to the Arab economic boycott of Israel , as a response to recent Israeli guarantees to curb the building of Jewish settlements in the occupied territories .
19 This concentrates on it but builds builds the platform on which other courses on advanced presentation skills and negotiation skills team presentation skills are all founded and so you 're able to er continue through er the courses .
20 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 .
21 The second error involves completing the sentence fragment with an inappropriate type of content .
22 If your job involves using a till , you will be given training in how to operate it .
23 This involves using a filtration process which basically makes the solid content of the milk much higher allowing it to set better , making it smooth , thick and above all , consistent .
24 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 .
25 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 ) .
26 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 .
27 The piece also involves using the potential of the spindle moulder to create solid shapes .
28 Predicating a theme involves using an it-structure ( also called a cleft structure ) to place an element near the beginning of the clause , as in It was the book that received a great deal of publicity in China , it was a great deal of publicity that the book received in China , or It was in China that the book received a great deal of publicity .
29 Thus if the coursework involves using an EP system called X , then X source files should be in a form that other tools can read .
30 She agrees to go the city council and lodge a complaint .
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