Example sentences of "which [vb mod] [vb infin] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the additional money is spent on training nurses , it is important that every effort be made to retain their services over a much longer period , which may involve making the terms and conditions more flexible for women returning to work . |
| 2 | Choosing the right inhibitor ( which may need to include anti-freeze ) and deciding on the correct procedure ( which may involve cleansing the system first ) is not always easy . |
| 3 | This saves the sometimes awkward task of fitting an offset in the bath waste ( which may involve running the pipe below the floorboards ) to ensure that it is not connected within 200mm of the WC soil pipe . |
| 4 | In many clinics the genital examination is followed by a ‘ general ’ examination which may include feeling the breasts for lumps , a blood-pressure recording , and a look at the shin from the scalp to the soles of the feet . |
| 5 | The point can be proved by describing the displaying which may entail seizing the articles concerned . |
| 6 | If the blade remains the edge should be exactly flush with the gauge plate which may require adjusting the slice thickness control . |
| 7 | It will now be a limited handicap which should mean avoiding the farce of last year when only three went to the post , two of them from the same stable . |
| 8 | Better to eat off an orange box and get pleasure from a plant than to spend the money on a cheap and nasty table which is going to be an unsatisfactory stopgap Save money and effort right at the start by sorting out priorities — which should include enjoying the room you live in — and try not to stray too far from your original objectives . |
| 9 | If the whole class is involved in researching a topic — which might include using the computer , browsing through the library , watching a video programme — it becomes easier to supervise the work of one small group ( that might , for example , be preparing an interview ) . |
| 10 | Surely someone can meaningfully say ‘ I ought to do this , because I promised , even though better consequences would ensue from my doing something else which would involve breaking the promise . ’ |
| 11 | This larger group would then choose an observer group of given countries to perform a peace-keeping role in Afghanistan , which would involve defusing the insurgency and supervising general elections . |
| 12 | Then we would prepare breakfast , which would mean fetching the water and collecting wood for the fire , which the men usually did , while two women would be in charge of making the tortillas . |
| 13 | Despite the eviction order there remained considerable press speculation that the US government would seek to reopen the issue of Subic Bay 's future with the new Philippine government which would emerge following the presidential elections of May 1992 . |
| 14 | In its 1969 report , the Committee on the Enforcement of Judgement Debts chaired by Mr Justice Payne recommended the setting up of a Court Enforcement Office , the functions of which would include assisting the creditor to obtain from the debtor ‘ as much as he can properly afford ’ , to liquidate the debts as soon as possible and to protect the debtor against undue hardship or harassment . |
| 15 | In the last three months of 1991 , NatWest concluded a deal with Toyota , the Japanese car giant , to finance the purchase of machinery and other equipment for its 580 acre plant at Burnaston in Derbyshire , which will start producing the Carina E model later this year . |
| 16 | The process of running a program means that it carries out the CPU instructions in the program file , some of which will involve telling the PC to look for certain data files on disk which it will use for its own ends . |
| 17 | Nuclear Electric will now undertake modification work which will involve running the reactors at a higher temperature , to prevent the problem arising . |
| 18 | The two will develop and qualify a general-purpose 0.35-micron CMOS technology by the end of 1994 for volume production the following year , which will involve shrinking the smallest feature sizes on logic chips by more than two times and increase the layers of metal interconnect , increasing the number of transistors that can be integrated on logic devices by a factor of 10 compared with products such as current-generation Am386 devices and Hewlett-Packard 's 99MHz Precision Architecture RISC — the Am386 devices are manufactured in 0.8-micron technology . |