Example sentences of "[to-vb] been involved in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arrow Air itself appears to have been involved in the Iran-Contra air supply operation . |
| 2 | About 10,000 people were believed to have been involved in the clashes , in which police , army units and factory militias armed with water-cannon and truncheons clashed with crowds hurling cobblestones and shouting ‘ We want to get out . ’ |
| 3 | Mrs Xoliswa Falati was reported last week to have been involved in an eviction dispute with Mrs Mandela , wife of the African National Congress leader , and to have telephoned a newspaper seeking help , before being driven off in a car with several men . |
| 4 | At least two coaches seem to have been involved in a collision in the Leopoldstadt , near the canal . |
| 5 | It could even be said that the predator in the assemblage is the least likely one to have been involved in its accumulation . |
| 6 | ‘ Who considers those persons to have been involved in abuse or attempted abuse of the immigration laws ? |
| 7 | They were rejected in Rochdale , and even in Nottingham , where cases of sexual abuse were upheld , and nine parents were found to have been involved in elaborate and organised abuse , there was no evidence that they did this as part of any satanic rituals or worship . |
| 8 | BOURNEMOUTH midfield player Shaun Brooks , who was alleged to have been involved in a fight with team manager Tony Pulis three weeks ago , is set to join Third Division Stockport in £30,000 deal . |
| 9 | In 1980 an editorial shake-up occurred following the detention of several dissidents alleged to have been involved in a plot . |
| 10 | The England and British Lions lock is alleged to have been involved in the incident in the match between his side , Preston Grasshoppers , and Stoke which left Steve Maskery with a bad head injury . |
| 11 | Security forces are believed to have been involved in numerous killings this year in Silvan , Diyarbakir province , thought previously to have been carried out by Hizbullah . |
| 12 | Watton was the RAF 's Central Signals Establishment and 192 is thought to have been involved in radio calibration duties . |
| 13 | But , first , they have to understand why such an instruction is given , even when it appears to be against their interests , and secondly they have to have been involved in the decision and to understand and accept the consequences of such a strategic direction . |
| 14 | Levine , an investment banker at a prestigious Wall Street firm , was alleged to have been involved in insider trading over a period of six years , during which time he made huge profits while trading on the basis of material nonpublic information in the securities of companies . |
| 15 | But certainly the family and descendants of Judas of Galilee seem to have been involved in many of the more ambitious , more co-ordinated , more professional Zealot enterprises . |
| 16 | On the contrary , they would seem to have been involved in precisely the kind of political and military activity from which Jesus , according to later tradition , is dissociated . |
| 17 | A third public interest immunity certificate of the same date issued by the Secretary of State for Transport , relating to particular details of the explosive device thought to have been involved in the disaster , has now been withdrawn . |
| 18 | The first 16 defendants are said to have been involved in the fraud or in receiving and laundering the money involved . |
| 19 | The presence of members of Anna 's family in Gaul at the nunnery of Farmoûtier-en-Brie ( HE 111 , 8 ) emphasizes the continuing Frankish orientation of his kingdom and throughout his reign Anna appears to have been involved in opposition to the Mercians . |
| 20 | The Tanat Valley Railway was at one time likely to have been involved in the grandiose proposal of 1845 concerning the West Midlands , Shrewsbury and Coast of Wales Railway Company . |
| 21 | Barco , although widely rumoured to have been involved in the drafting of the open letter , stated on Jan. 19 that the war against the cartels would continue in order to " assure the final success of the government 's policy " . |
| 22 | The chairman-designate , Uwe Kuntze , of a West German company alleged to have been involved in the manufacture of a chemical weapons plant in Rabta , Libya , admitted that the firm , Imhausen-Chemie , had appeared " not to have respected regulations ' during the affair but protested that the company had not acted " intentionally or maliciously " . |
| 23 | Those arrested included ( i ) Lt.-Col. Rodolfo Calzado , alleged to have been involved in the August 1987 coup attempt [ see pp. 35709-11 ] , who was arrested on Dec. 31 ; ( ii ) Lt.-Col. Billy Bibit , arrested by military intelligence on Jan. 17 , in connection with the December 1989 coup attempt [ see pp. 37120-21 ] ; and ( iii ) Lt. Vincente Tomas and Lt. Emil Ong , alleged to have planned a series of " destabilizing " actions to coincide with the Gulf crisis . |
| 24 | The statement said that younger Nahda members appeared to have been involved in the February incident " with the agreement of some of the movement 's leadership " , and that Nahda 's membership and activities would therefore be " frozen … pending the decisions which we may take in the near future " . |
| 25 | There had been speculation that soldiers alleged to have been involved in the Tchin-Tabaradene massacre of perhaps hundreds of Tuareg dissidents in May 1990 [ see pp. 37703 ; 37811-12 ] , now fearing justice , might launch a pre-emptive mutiny . |
| 26 | Army , police and customs personnel were known to have been involved in making the country a major trans-shipment point for Colombian drug cartels targeting European markets . |
| 27 | In return , Central Bank governor Jose Cuisia agreed that US$344 million of other banks ' loans would be eligible for bond conversion , while securing the right of the Philippines to take action against any bank later found to have been involved in fraudulent transactions . |
| 28 | Even Wat Tyler , the most famous of these , does not seem to have been involved in the earliest disturbances in Kent , as he is not mentioned in indictments dealing with disorder in Canterbury on 10 and 11 June , when the leader was John Hales of Malling . |
| 29 | By the late fourth century , in fact , the Saxons were said to have been involved in raids which had previously been ascribed to the Franks . |
| 30 | She is not known to have been involved in any way . |