Example sentences of "[det] [vb -s] [v-ing] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its best role is the diplomatic and peacekeeping one — which is quite different from peace-enforcing , since that involves imposing an end to fighting . |
| 2 | This involves generating a DC for the package , assessing the DC , activating the DC , updating the package to reference the selected approved version of the changed module , and then getting the package approved . |
| 3 | This involves taking a sample of households and classifying them according to their income groups . |
| 4 | This involves taking a risk : there may well be expression of anger or despair or criticism of the group or ( more commonly ) the church . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This involves creating a list of categories such as ‘ takes lead ’ or ‘ follows ’ , ‘ gives orders ’ or ‘ obeys orders ’ , ‘ works out of doors ’ or ‘ works indoors ’ , ‘ mends car ’ or ‘ does housework ’ , and counting up each occasion on which the characters in the book do these things . |
| 7 | This involves obtaining a training post as a trainee legal executive with a firm of solicitors or similar organisation , joining the Institute of Legal Executives and undertaking the Institute 's Part 1 and Part 11 examinations . |
| 8 | This involves spending a lot of time in the sun by the pool listening to girlish giggles as they frolic around . |
| 9 | This involves finding a language for the goal of contemplative life — " I vate wele desyres to here some special poynt of luf of Jhesu Criste , and of contemplatyf lyfe " [ vate wele : know well ; here : hear ] ( 6.102 – 3.214 – 2 ) — to bridge the gap between doctrine and reality . |
| 10 | However , it is one thing to scan a computer screen in the catering office : it 's quite another to do stocktaking — typically this involves carrying a notebook around the various larders and coldrooms . |
| 11 | This involves specifying a goal or target value for the objective function . |
| 12 | This involves gaining an idea of villagers ' senses of their past and future fates , their senses of history , and their identities with others sharing or differences from those not sharing their fates . |
| 13 | This entails coupling a promoter region of a gene expressed in cancer cells with a non-mammalian enzyme that can activate a prodrug to a cytotoxic agent . |
| 14 | This entails interviewing a patient , tape recording the interview , selecting a section to transcribe , and analysing the communication process involved in taking the history . |
| 15 | The rule against prior restraint is designed to allow publishers to publish even if this means betraying a confidence — a betrayal which , as Lord Denning points out , may be very much in the public interest — so long as they pay any damages that may be appropriate . |
| 16 | In the case of the spadefoot , this means digging a burrow . |
| 17 | For some , as in the Roman Catholic Church , this means taking a vow of celibacy ; for some entering religious orders it means taking the vows of celibacy , poverty and obedience . |
| 18 | In effect this means doing a PhD rather than an MD , and the message from the conference was that an MD is a devalued degree . |
| 19 | This means running an earth wire ( 4mm 2 , or 2.5mm 2 if run in conduit ) from the main earthing point and linking it to the hot and cold pipes , the taps and any metal fittings such as metal sinks . |
| 20 | This saves using a GOTO , but leaves the return address on the stack . |
| 21 | That means taking an interest in little things as well as big ones . |
| 22 | ‘ That means getting a result at Wrexham tomorrow night . |
| 23 | That means reaching an agreement with Denmark on the Maastricht treaty which is acceptable to all the other member states as well . |
| 24 | erm I 'm not someone who 's for , for example , erm positive discrimination where that means choosing a woman when there 's a better man erm and I think that erm although some feminists do , certainly it 's not a necessary condition of being a feminist , and I certainly do n't , and I think that if John Major erm sincerely looked at all the women who could have been in his cabinet , and sincerely judged their abilities erm compared to the men who were available , erm and decided that the women were n't ready , then I think that 's , that 's a possible position . |
| 25 | That means paying a bit more for a used example , but you retain more of your investment . |
| 26 | Each returns carrying a crop full of water with which it wets the walls of the main part of the nest . |