Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb -s] [v-ing] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There are various types of mutilation : 1 ) Circumcision Proper which involves removing the hood around the clitoris .
2 finally , the node information can be perturbed only once , which involves creating a node table into which the perturbed nodes are stored as they are read in , and from which they can be retrieved in later references to the same node .
3 Old-style publishing was based around retail sheet-music sales , but current publishing is a banking operation which involves taking a risk on an artist .
4 There is a bad reason for thinking this , which involves taking the regress as temporal ; before I can justify A , I have to justify B and C , and so on ad infinitum , and thus I can never get started .
5 The deal , which involves sharing the costs of catering and maintenance at both Zaventem airport in Brussels and Paris , is attractive because it gives access to slots at Brussels airport , seen as a future hub for travel to 70 cities around Europe .
6 There is , however , one universal habit which involves tightening the neck muscles and this will invariably interfere with the Primary Control and , subsequently , with all the other muscles and reflexes in the body .
7 Healers use their own crystals to treat other people , and may practise a form of crystal ‘ massage ’ , which involves holding the crystal two inches above the patient and rotating it in small clockwise circles over the entire body surface .
8 A technique used in some Chinese rugs which involves inserting the pile through a canvas or duck backing with the aid of a " tufting gun " .
9 Either through work which involves training the imagination ( in the sense of being an ‘ image-making ’ faculty ) or spontaneously , a woman may have an intimation of a female guide , a feminine presence that watches over her life .
10 We also do some ‘ breeding success ’ work which involves watching the birds from nest-building to fledgling stages and recording how many chicks are produced each year .
11 The church may however avoid tax by a relatively straightforward — and well tried — method , which involves establishing a trading company ( Tradeco ) in which the church holds all the issued share capital .
12 Leadership which involves directing the meeting constantly and talking to the group for a majority of the time is unhelpful .
13 The energy costs of the production process , which involves mixing the oil with ethanol , must also be allowed for when assessing the environmental benefits .
14 Many people , particularly in the Protestant community , consider that there is a conflict between the Commission 's assumption of a target which involves improving the employment position of Catholics and its duty , as they see it , to be neutral between the Protestant and Catholic communities .
15 The process of curriculum development which involves devising the material and trying it out .
16 One of partners is Stores who are implementing a strategic store-based application which involves having an R S six thousand in every single shop with a SQL Server on every single box .
17 ‘ the application of tariff principles requires the sentencer to find the sentence which most accurately reflects the offender 's culpability , a process which involves relating the gravity of the offence to the established pattern of sentences for offences of that kind , and then making allowance for such mitigating factors as may be present which tend to reduce the offender 's culpability .
18 These mathematical concepts are obviously rather well suited to represent the physical idea of superposition , which involves adding a bit of this to a bit of that .
19 It is this procedure , which involves turning a reductionist methodology into a reductionist philosophy , that is the manoeuvre so popular among molecular biologists and some geneticists , but , fortunately , is rather rarer among psychologists or neurobiologists .
20 THE Anglo-Swedish consortium bidding for Sea Containers , the Sealink ferries-to-Orient Express group , yesterday raised its hostile offer to $1.036billion ( £659 million ) in a move to scupper James Sherwood 's defence plan which involves selling the Isle of Wight service and the port of Harwich .
21 Textural analysis , which involves studying the size , shape and proportion of the inclusions , can be useful when the inclusions are not distinctive in other respects .
22 The De Belving manse was more like a palace than a house , having an ostentatious spire at each corner from which flags bearing the family seals declared their status on the wind .
23 It is further evidence that the issue of whether top roles should be split is complex , and that prevailing wisdom , which favours splitting the roles , should be challenged — something Rick Greenbury had the courage to do on his appointment as chairman and chief executive of Marks & Spencer .
24 Such courses have to develop an element of ‘ theory ’ or ‘ analysis ’ in order to acquire academic legitimacy ; which risks producing a counter-reaction from practitioners .
25 Exhibitors must be members of the society and pay £1 for the privilege , which includes receiving a copy of the show register .
26 In order to make the best of a case at this stage most claimants will need advice and assistance because preparing a case for appeal involves three tasks : establishing the facts of the case , understanding the applicable legal rules and integrating facts and law in a well-constructed argument which includes meeting the reasons put forward by the adjudication officer for denying the claim .
27 In a standardised approach to the immediate resuscitation of a casualty a quick assessment of the airway , breathing , and circulation ( which includes opening the airway ) should allow the first aider to decide whether the problem is unconsciousness alone , disturbed or absent breathing , or cardiac arrest .
28 All the main Free Church denominations have women ministers , who have exactly the same role as the men , which includes blessing the sacrament .
29 Last year the town missed out , but the borough council , residents and business people have worked together on a new ten-point plan which includes regenerating the town centre by making it fully pedestrianised , building a new shopping development and improving access for disabled people .
30 Garman and Klass provided a table of factors to adjust upwards the values of their estimator which requires knowing the number of transactions per time period .
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