Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] a [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 | This research project first involves contacting a representative sample of 12,000 British manufacturing companies . |
| 4 | Planning involves simulating a difficult or irreversible search . |
| 5 | This may involve special categories of trader , such as the market maker , who is under an obligation ( by the exchange rules ) to quote a price in a given contract whenever asked ; the designated broker , who agrees to promote a particular contract without giving a binding commitment to deal ; and the " local " , who trades his personal account on the exchange floor . |
| 6 | Thriving under the feet of elephants Quentin Cowdry goes to see a giant-slaying small firm which is |
| 7 | Play-pens are now having to be made to a new British Standard , which involves using a simulated ‘ bite ’ test . |
| 8 | With the ardour of his age Dick agrees to carry a vital message across the frontier into Flavonia : delighting in unexpected action , he is afraid only of being late and failing in his mission and it is the free resourcefulness of a boy that ensures that in spite of accidents the message does get through . |
| 9 | One involves generating a short-lived species in the gas phase , by photolysis , thermolysis , chemical reaction , discharge , etc . |
| 10 | So La Laura now thinks got a sore stomach because she 's hungry . |
| 11 | These new , relatively small , selective colleges are to be set up by private sponsors , with government grants to provide a free education with a technological emphasis for 11–16-year-olds . |
| 12 | This meeting agrees to provide a reasonable level of financial and logistical and other support to those students who wish to pursue legal action against the CLE , who are not eligible for legal aid . |
| 13 | SIR — Glynn Jones 's article ( April 10 ) about the Japanese rediscovering Vertical Take-off and Landing transports contains a major error while making a valid point . |
| 14 | Right , so if it goes say a hundred and twenty six miles or a hundred and twenty miles , to the nearest ten miles , it goes a hundred and twenty miles in two hours how far would it go in one hour ? |
| 15 | Johnson claimed that whenever Montesquieu ‘ wants to support a strange opinion , he quotes you the practice of Japan or of some other distant country , of which he knows nothing ’ . |
| 16 | In competition a sailor has to perform a three minute routine , performing as many tricks as he can and linking them together with a smooth flowing act . |
| 17 | Manager Lennie Lawrence has delayed a final decision but he can not take a risk for a game that could clinch Boro automatic promotion . |
| 18 | Manager Ray Hankin has no injury worries but has delayed a final choice . |
| 19 | For example , is it not true that the Roosecote project has received a substantial amount of capital from NORWEB but that the deal has been kept secret ? |
| 20 | The study of Magritte 's art , long dependent upon Suzi Gablik 's short monograph completed in 1970 , has received a sharp boost with the publication of three new books , each of which serves a slightly different purpose but only together provide a comprehensive evaluation of the artist as he has been researched by David Sylvester and Sarah Whitfield . |
| 21 | The sad story of the decline of the African elephant mainly due to ivory poaching has received a great deal of much-needed publicity . |
| 22 | Communal living has received a great deal of publicity during the last twenty years , partly as the result of the experiments with alternative lifestyles widely advocated by members of the middle classes in the 1960s . |
| 23 | A second view that a scientific theory is a complex structure of some kind is one that has received a great deal of attention in recent years . |
| 24 | Most recently , the controversy surrounding the use of Chlorofluorocarbons ( CFC 's ) and the damage they are doing to the Ozone layer has received a great deal of publicity . |
| 25 | The latter class has received a great deal of attention recently because homologous sequences have been found as domains contained within larger DNA binding proteins such as the nucleolar transcription factor hUBF ( 3 ) , mitochondrial transcription factor 1 ( 4 ) , sex-determining region Y ( SRY ) ( 5 , 6 ) , lymphoid enhancer binding factor I ( LEF-1 ) ( 7 ) , a T-cell specific transcription factor TCF-1α ( 8 ) , and the yeast autonomously replicating sequence factor ABF2 ( 9 ) . |
| 26 | In haulage contracts there will be little doubt as to whether each party has received a worthwhile benefit ! |
| 27 | Women 's Design Service has received a small grant to carry out research into housing design for older women . |
| 28 | It has changed hands again recently and has received a new facade . |
| 29 | , a senior operator at Courtaulds Chemicals in Stretford , UK , has received a new national qualification for demonstrating a detailed understanding of the sulphur recovery process . |
| 30 | ( b ) has received a terminal prognosis |