Example sentences of "was involved [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Hector Buckley was told he would make many lifelong friends and some enemies , and found this to be true ; but he was involved again in 1988 .
2 At this stage Pons was involved primarily with his job as departmental chairman and was following progress relatively remotely ; Fleischmann and Hawkins were making the detailed investigations .
3 It may be significant that Paul Black was involved heavily at the London end in the design of such schemes , but again not from the total viewpoint which in any case would probably be regarded as one of the weaknesses of the London development where there was less overview than obtained in Oxford .
4 and er Gary was involved yesterday in drawing some plans up with er Nick
5 Although the struggle took place outside the formal boundaries of local politics and the council was involved only at the margins , it forced unemployment onto the agenda , much to the advantage of Labour .
6 In fact the people 's committees were a genuinely spontaneous growth in which communist agitation was involved only to a minor extent .
7 Gresley was involved actively for many years with the International Railway Congress Association as a member of its permanent commission and gave a comprehensive report on improvements in steam locomotives at the Madrid Congress in 1930 .
8 In the early years , the company was involved mainly in financing imports of raw materials and factory equipment , and its chief shareholders were the leading French banks .
9 This was the beginning of a close association and collaboration lasting for twenty-five years , interrupted only by Bulleid 's war service from 1915 to 1919 , when he was involved mainly in the operation of military railways serving ammunition dumps near the front in France .
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