Example sentences of "involved [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their general responsibility for arresting vagabonds and suspected poachers in the forest sometimes involved organizing and leading an armed expedition , for the Forests were the resort of lawless and desperate characters . |
| 2 | My mind games were not always concerned with the past ; sometimes they involved transforming my surroundings into a fantasy landscape . |
| 3 | Many women believed that these reforms involved transforming the whole tenor of English public life and creating an ethical and moral climate founded on the teachings of religion . |
| 4 | One of the first attempts to treat the effluent involved building a small lagoon , the idea for which Dai discovered in a book . |
| 5 | At that time we were also building a similar data base on another CAD system , which involved re-writing all software to suit . |
| 6 | They did not have to suffer a very low-calorie diet or one that involved eating expensive and unusual foods . |
| 7 | It 's impossible , of course , not to draw comparisons between this decidedly unsexy image and Pitt 's infamous Levi 's spot , which also involved parading around in his underwear , albeit a slightly more glamorous pair of boxers . |
| 8 | This involved helping students with their problems , welfare administration , some tutoring and , in particular , helping in the promotion of sport in the university . |
| 9 | The educational role usually amounted to freeing the teacher from mundane classroom activities or carrying out instruction under the teacher 's guidance , whereas the para-professional role involved helping with physiotherapy and speech therapy exercises . |
| 10 | Typically this involved rotating the unemployed around the rate-paying farmers . |
| 11 | This , as any British climbers knows , involved quaffing gallons of warm beer the night before , eating half a pig and the produce of a hen house the next morning , then spraying the countryside with this heady mixture while approaching the crag . |
| 12 | The coursework involved producing a hypertext document . |
| 13 | When would-be television stars realised that just to get through the first round involved completing a detailed questionnaire their enthusiasm waned somewhat . |
| 14 | It involved using a cannon to fire a harpoon carrying an explosive grenade . |
| 15 | The Carstairs system ( after Joseph Carstairs , died 1820 ) involved using the whole forearm in the business of writing , instead of just the fingers . |
| 16 | One involved using whole word shape to help determine segment positions and to allow for letter shape variations within words . |
| 17 | A third , and crucially important , experiment involved using external stimuli to influence the content of dreaming itself . |
| 18 | Also concurrent with this was the establishing of a mode , or even tradition , of working for feminist artists , which involved using their own bodies ( although with widely varying intentions and political positions ) — either producing images , or through performance or video . |
| 19 | The experiment I was doing all those months ago when I began writing this book , which I described in Chapter 2 , involved using the sugar fucose as a precursor for glycoprotein . |
| 20 | The business proposition ‘ involved using specialised IT applications to develop a bespoke service to the design , construction and maintenance of buildings , with an integrated costing service that enabled design , build and cost to be integrated ’ . |
| 21 | Home income schemes involved using funds obtained via a mortgage to be re-invested to pay off the loan and provide additional income . |
| 22 | This involved using existing data and also meetings with representatives from organisations involved in economic development in the valley . |
| 23 | The same Unit ( SPRU ) carried out a later study ( Martin , Irvine & Crouch 1985 ) which involved using research indicators for scientific choice , as earlier defined , for international comparisons , and also for institutional choice between competing UK research groups in two different research fields — Ocean Current studies , and Protein Crystallography . |
| 24 | Knowledge and expertise in catalysis and high-pressure technology steadily improved and in the 1930s ICI developed a process for converting coal into petrol which involved using what were the forerunners of today 's primary reforming catalysts of nickel and supported nickel . |
| 25 | This was much more than we had expected and was largely due to the need to raise the path to the front door , which involved relocating two man-hole covers . |
| 26 | A Corporal had given me a coathanger and a broom and showed me the Foreign Legion 's way of unblocking a difficult lavatory bowl ; it involved unbending the coathanger , jamming it down the U-bend , and working it vigorously backwards and forwards . |
| 27 | The experiments , however , involved drawing fibres and blowing bubbles of molten glass and one day , after the work had been going on for some months , Lockspeiser went home leaving the gas torch used for melting the glass still burning . |
| 28 | Addressing a press conference in Paris on Jan. 17 , Sharif said that Pakistan had not requested a nuclear plant , which had been promised by France during a visit to Pakistan by French President François Mitterrand in February 1990 , as it involved accepting " comprehensive safeguards which for Pakistan today is not possible " . |
| 29 | One such project , the Alexander Wilson Suite , involved weaving part of Paisley 's historic past into the border of the carpet . |
| 30 | A final stage involved tackling the native rock . |