Example sentences of "this [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This involves allowing the children home on trial , a practice that has increased sharply since 1948 , and taking whatever steps are necessary to rehabilitate the family so that full parental responsibility can be resumed . |
| 2 | This involves getting the aircraft into an attitude with the tail-wheel or skid just off the ground . |
| 3 | This involves helping the patient develop alternative and less self-blaming ideas about how other people behave towards her , and examining with her the origins and validity of her underlying sense of worthlessness . |
| 4 | At one level , this involves publicising the criteria of eligibility for a full assessment , the various mechanisms for different forms of assessment and the procedure by which people can complain . |
| 5 | But the narrow idea of bindingness does not in itself take us to a real ‘ ought ’ , to a genuine obligation ; it only says that if you are going to play the game of law this involves taking the rules and decisions as mandatory or non-optional . |
| 6 | This involves knowing the Bible and being prepared to use the opportunities that come our way . |
| 7 | The Japanese machines will knit lace from specially produced and marked cards and this involves using the lace carriage for many transfer rows in between two knitted rows with the main carriage . |
| 8 | It is , therefore , most important to search for all the possible angles to a question , and this involves reading the question with meticulous care . |
| 9 | To meet these possibilities , a technique known as stratification is employed : this involves dividing the population into groups or strata and sampling randomly within each . |
| 10 | Preventing substance misuse is largely a matter of controlling the availability of drugs and this involves controlling the cultivation and processing of drugs , preventing their import through ports and airports , and ensuring tight pharmacy security and controls on prescribing . |
| 11 | Stage 1 Setting Objectives — This involves detailing the objectives of the organization in the long and short term . |
| 12 | This involves studying the structure and function of macromolecules such as proteins , nucleic acids and carbohydrates , as well as experiments on the properties of biological systems varying in complexity from cell extracts to whole organisms . |
| 13 | This involves increasing the number of cases heard in the county courts , thereby maintaining High Court hearings for public law cases , specialist cases and general list cases of importance , complexity and substance . |
| 14 | This involves changing the verb altogether and replacing it with one that has a similar meaning but can be used in a different syntactic configuration . |
| 15 | This involves understanding the nature of the relationship between a child 's prior understanding of a word and its subsequent use in production . |
| 16 | This involves understanding the perspective of the elderly client , of the carers and how the caring relationship developed . |
| 17 | This involves understanding the distinction between cause-effect relations and evidence-conclusion relations . |
| 18 | Briefly , this involves recasting the company into a number of operating divisions which take day-to-day decisions concerning particular product ranges . |
| 19 | This involves reconstruing the situation so that it looks more straightforward and easy to handle , thus allowing sides to be taken or a stance adopted which reduces the confusion and allows at least some action to be taken — a villain to be defeated , a wrong to be righted , a battle to be fought . |
| 20 | This involves mounting the ground face on to a glass slide of appropriate size , using epoxy resin : again this can be done quite crudely . |
| 21 | This involves cancelling the infinities by introducing other infinities . |
| 22 | This involves adding the constraint to P1/LP0 . |
| 23 | This involves preparing the pupils for the visit as well as dealing with all the practicalities of the arrangements for transport , bookings , and so on ( see Boxes 12 & 13 ) . |
| 24 | This involves avoiding the midday sun . |
| 25 | This involves cleaning the ends of the pipe with solvent cleaner and brushing on solvent-weld cement . |
| 26 | This involves planning the intervention and evaluating the outcome . |
| 27 | It 's one of my jobs to meet the boats and this involves assembling the visitors and talking to them for a short while about the wildlife and rules of the island . |
| 28 | This failed to meet the demand for the forcible removal of the barricades , as advanced by the 7,000 white residents of the Chateauguay suburb adjacent to the Mercier bridge ( some of whom had regularly assembled during the siege to burn Mohawk effigies , and had participated in attacks on Indians fleeing the adjoining Kahnawake reservation ) . |
| 29 | This failed to prevent the violence from spreading , with clashes between Uzbeks and Kirghiz , pogroms , and attacks on Interior Ministry buildings occurring in several localities in Osh oblast ( region ) from June 5 . |
| 30 | The Daily Mail stressed that this failed to console the victim 's distraught family , friends and workmates , her MP or the probation service , who were also not told of the killer 's threat . |