Example sentences of "[noun pl] involved [was/were] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 However , the parties involved were prepared to have their heads hit together to arrive at a solution .
2 the costs involved were prohibitive .
3 The freedoms threatened by the fatwa went far beyond his own freedom and the principles involved were greater than his own life or death .
4 But after taking their patients to hospital , the six ambulancemen involved were all suspended without pay for refusing to work normally .
5 The sums involved were colossal : over £0.5 million for the spire and the roof .
6 But the procedures involved were more than attempts to improve the sensitivity of attitude measures ; they also involved no little reformulation of the theory of attitudes .
7 Often , but by no means invariably , the medreses involved were imperial foundations , such as the medrese of Suleyman 's mother , Hafsa Sultan , in Manisa ( 929/1523 ) ; the medreses of Suleyman himself in Rhodes ( 956/1549 ) and Damascus ( 973/1566 ) ; and that of Selim II on the newly-conquered island of Cyprus ( 978–9/1570–1 ) .
8 The Bible account makes it plain that the numbers involved were considerable .
9 Three Saro London squadrons involved were 202 ( Mediterranean ) , 201 ( Sullom Voe ) and 240 ( Invergordon ) the latter unit receiving a number of its Londons from 204 Squadron which by then had changed to Short Sunderlands .
10 However , the cultural negotiations involved were problematic since they generated tensions between individualism and the investment of cultural authority in the state .
11 Mike said that the chemicals involved were mobile as well as being potent and their ability is a potential explanation for lack of results in the Council 's study .
12 In a 70 page statement Mr Justice Harrison said the councils involved were entitled to seek possession of the sites .
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