Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The accounting-based approach involves forecasting the entire balance sheet . |
| 2 | It involves sucking the contaminated oil into a cleaning system housed in a mobile trailer , cleaning it and returning it to the transformer . |
| 3 | This research project first involves contacting a representative sample of 12,000 British manufacturing companies . |
| 4 | The scheme involves dredging the main channel of the Medway estuary to provide a storage base for import-export cargoes . |
| 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 | Basically this involves using the right foot to draw the ball into the post from the left side of the field and the left foot to do the same from the right side . |
| 7 | One of these involves using the hind leg to scratch an area of skin to which an irritant has been applied . |
| 8 | The tough love hurts the family member not simply because it involves allowing the primary sufferer to experience the full painful consequences of addictive disease but also because it involves the family member in resisting his or her own addictive urges to " fix " all the problems and manage the life of the primary sufferer . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | So La Laura now thinks got a sore stomach because she 's hungry . |
| 11 | The boundary-maintaining function , as stated by Erikson , says that crime and the response it evokes provide the essential function of defining and maintaining the moral boundaries of society . |
| 12 | Having failed in its attempt to induce individuals by offering to pay £1,000 per borehole , it is now attempting a new strategy which involves inducing the whole community . |
| 13 | This involves unscrewing the retaining nut , removing the end cap and plunger and prising out the old diaphragm with a small screwdriver . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The last grants to pass the great seal ( although others were in the pipeline ) were the appointments of the chief baron of the exchequer and two serjeants at law on 14 and 15 June — a last attempt by the establishment to pretend that it was business as normal . |
| 17 | The last grants to pass the great seal ( although others were in the pipeline ) were the appointments of the chief baron of the exchequer and two serjeants at law on 14 and 15 June — a last attempt by the establishment to pretend that it was business as normal . |
| 18 | The initial storyline came from Terry Nation , but as an amusement for themselves the two writers took it in turns to write the detailed story breakdowns , each leaving an impossible cliff-hanger which the other writer had to get out of . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Eric Voegelin has emphasized the fundamental difference between what he calls the ‘ cosmological ’ civilizations , which presupposed the political symbolization of the cosmos typified by Babylonia with its epic of Marduk , and ‘ eschatological ’ civilizations such as the Hebrew — but first exemplified by the Iranian — based on the religion of Zarathustra . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | The end-of-term jollity was illustrative of the relaxed atmosphere that has pervaded the final week of the Liberal Democrat election drive — a product not merely of the light-headedness of exhaustion but also of the undoubted success of what has been a well-judged campaign . |
| 23 | All that Ormrod J. is in fact saying is that there has to be a woman in a marriage , because someone has to perform the essential role of a woman in the marriage , and this essential role is to be a woman , biologically so determined . |
| 24 | Manager Ray Hankin has no injury worries but has delayed a final choice . |
| 25 | Manager Lennie Lawrence has delayed a final decision but he can not take a risk for a game that could clinch Boro automatic promotion . |
| 26 | The problem has delayed the second phase by 18 months . |
| 27 | Swoon director Tom Kalin — he wants to seduce the whole nation with his New Queer Cinema |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The sad story of the decline of the African elephant mainly due to ivory poaching has received a great deal of much-needed publicity . |