Example sentences of "[verb] an " in BNC.
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| 31 | There are two basic criteria : firstly an invention must be based on a wholly new idea or involve an ‘ inventive step ’ ; secondly an invention must be capable of industrial ( including agricultural , etc. ) application . |
| 32 | As noted above , the proposals for securing and providing services involve an ‘ internal market ’ . |
| 33 | Barclays also has a special loan scheme which it says is particularly suitable for enterprises starting up in new technologies that involve an element of risk . |
| 34 | They seem deaf to any plea that most of the things designed to improve the quality of life involve an element of risk . |
| 35 | Verbs involve an appreciation of time ; nouns of objects in space , or of mental concepts and experiences ; adjectives of qualities between which we can discriminate ; adverbs of associations in time , space and quality . |
| 36 | This means it has to be new , capable of industrial application , involve an innovation , and not be excluded as a special case — such as military inventions . |
| 37 | His trips usually involve an overnight stay , and he pays the company rent for this occasional occupation . |
| 38 | NO CRIME PLEASE , WE 'RE IOFCs It has been estimated that half the world 's financial transactions by value involve an offshore centre directly or indirectly . |
| 39 | That said , Anthony Ginsberg of Salomon Brothers in New York estimates that half the world 's financial transactions by value involve an offshore centre either directly or indirectly . |
| 40 | The country-specific programmes , in particular , involve an important element of training and strengthening of counterpart organisations , linked to geological survey , mineral and energy resource investigations . |
| 41 | All the traditional proofs of his existence , Kant argued , ultimately involve an appeal to the ontological argument . |
| 42 | Of these six cases in which lawyer B did not adopt the client 's chosen outcome as his objective , numbers one to four involve an attempted transformation of the client 's chosen outcome , and number five is a refusal to translate . |
| 43 | It follows that assessment procedures — the unit credit which attaches to every unit — should reflect all four aspects of achievement and involve an element of pupil self-assessment . |
| 44 | Companies like Toyota , Nissan , Sony , Hitachi , Honda or Matsushita concentrate on narrower product ranges but their operations involve an extensive array of horizontal and vertical relationships with affiliated firms . |
| 45 | Another aspect of trying to appreciate the task from the child 's point of view is found in studies of class inclusion , which involve an ability fundamental to classification . |
| 46 | Just as his political commitments exiled him from his own class , so my politics involve an awkward relationship with my own class . |
| 47 | One is that scepticism is not restricted to doubt about the possibility of knowledge ; most interesting sceptical arguments , as I suggest in chapter 1 , involve an equal doubt about the possibility of justified belief . |
| 48 | Consider , for example , the choice between two mutually exclusive investments , A and B , both of which involve an investment outlay of £50,000 . |
| 49 | A number of kinds of events describable within modern microphysics involve an indeterminacy that had no place in the Newtonian programme . |
| 50 | ‘ When theft is alleged and that which is alleged to be stolen passes to the defendant with the consent of the owner , but that has been obtained by a false representation , has ( a ) an appropriation within the meaning of section 1(1) of the Theft Act 1968 taken place , or ( b ) must such a passing of property necessarily involve an element of adverse inference with or usurpation of some right of the owner ? |
| 51 | ‘ When theft is alleged and that which is alleged to be stolen passes to the defendant with the consent of the owner , but that has been obtained by a false representation , has ( a ) an appropriation within the meaning of section 1(1) of the Theft Act 1968 taken place , or ( b ) must such a passing of property necessarily involve an element of adverse inference with or usurpation of some right of the owner ? |
| 52 | ‘ When theft is alleged and that which is alleged to be stolen passes to the defendant with the consent of the owner , but that consent has been obtained by a false representation , has , ( a ) an appropriation within the meaning of section 1(1) of the Theft Act 1968 taken place , or , ( b ) must such a passing of property necessarily involve an element of adverse interference with or usurpation of some right of the owner ? |
| 53 | The gifted local amateur occasionally writes a piece of enduring worth , and not all commissions involve an expensive financial transaction . |
| 54 | If it is accepted , as I argue , that a judge , when sitting in his court , is frequently required to make decisions which involve an assessment of where the public interest lies and so to make a political decision , then he can not be said to act neutrally , although he may still be the person best suited to make that particular decision . |
| 55 | The discussion so far has implicitly assumed that both the long and the short legs of the spread involve an equal number of contracts . |
| 56 | Such detailed procedures required to be operated by builders involve an equivalent , if not greater , cost to administer than the traditional PAYE scheme for directly employed labour . |
| 57 | They recognize that even the most basic logical processes involve an element of indeterminacy ; they also base their techniques of communication on the strategies of narrative fiction rather than the endless flow of information . |
| 58 | Part-time courses which are available for similar periods of study as for full-time courses usually involve an average of eight hours attendance at college each week , predominantly on a ‘ day release ’ basis . |
| 59 | The Act confers extensive powers of entry , search , and seizure which necessarily involve an invasion of the citizen 's rights of privacy and property ; on that account the legislation might be thought to call for a strict construction . |
| 60 | All the conversations represent a specific task ( eg changing a flight ) and involve an information gap to be overcome . |