Example sentences of "involved [noun] " in BNC.

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1 According to a minister of state in the Foreign Affairs Ministry at the end of January 110 companies were being investigated for alleged illegal deliveries to Iraq , of which 11 were being prosecuted , although none involved exports to Iraq after the August 1990 embargo came into force .
2 A year later , the protest took a new form : the ‘ dirty protest ’ involved prisoners refusing to exercise or use toilet facilities .
3 The plan involved proposals to reduce excess capacity and to transform Rover from being a volume car producer to a specialist producer in an ‘ up-market move ’ with the aim of increasing profit per car sold ( see Figure 4.2 ) .
4 This strategy involved proposals for formal arrangements for joint Great Power elimination of bases and the encouragement of neutralist and non-aligned sentiment in the Third World against Western bases .
5 It is truly — and intellectually — heart-warming that music as hook-free and unfeathered as Spiritualized 's could elicit such a sporting , involved response from a bunch of lumber tops and nose-pin rebels .
6 The interest rate subsidy sometimes involved deferral of repayment for 15 years .
7 One embarrassing experience involved Jan Leeming , the television personality , who was taking part in a film I was producing .
8 Until now , Danish GPs ' notes were for private use , except when they involved drug prescription , accidents , and insurance claims , or when malpractice was suspected ( see Lancet 1992 ; 340 : 719 ) .
9 However , this was to be short lived as on 12 September , there was another trolleybus conversion , which involved route 30 .
10 Industrial development of the Tyne in the nineteenth century involved conflicts over land , or rather in this instance water , rights .
11 US attorney Andrew Maloney , in charge of the case , said the sanctions-busting conspiracy involved shipments of weapons from Eastern Europe via America to Iraq .
12 We then went a stage further and to share the technology established joint teams for each of these major areas , so that er the specification while it was under Dasa 's leadership , it was actually done by a joint team which involved expertise from British Aerospace and the other three and er therefore at that time the whole Eurofighter consortium was confident that they were making the best use of the available expertise across the four partner companies , each bringing to the table , their own so that they could go forward on a confident basis .
13 Management involved monitoring of oxygen at home , additional inspired oxygen , anticonvulsant treatment , or child protection procedures .
14 Previously , where planning permission was required for work to a listed building , the application was treated as being simultaneously an application for listed building consent , unless the works involved demolition of part or the whole , in which case a separate application was needed .
15 The restoration also involved removal around the damage of old repaint which obscured some of the thumb prints which , uniquely in Poussin 's work , texture the whole picture surface .
16 Perhaps Mr Bérégovoy feared further revelations in the trial , due to start next month , of his former assistant , Alain Boublil , and eight others charged in connection with the insider-dealing affair that involved Roger-Patrice Pelat — who , two years earlier , had given Mr Bérégovoy his FFr1m loan .
17 With his law of primitive socialist accumulation Preobrazhensky saw it essentially as being conditions which were imposed upon the Soviet economy ; either the state sector will grow or it will succumb to the private sector , but the ‘ law ’ itself is only manifested by a series of conditions which were conscious acts upon the part of the Soviet state , since it involved plans and planning .
18 It was soon realised that there was a gang operating on an international scale and as the investigation grew it eventually involved Sussex police No 6 Regional Crime Squad and customs authorities in the Mediterranean area .
19 Frequently , this competition involved provision of military equipment to potential allies — an aspect of Cold War rivalry that has contributed to conflict in Ethiopia , Somalia and the Middle East .
20 Perhaps , and perhaps contentiously , it was because the general insurrection had not taken place at this time : at least not in the sense that it involved trial by battle .
21 A long , involved excuse always sounds less convincing .
22 The method involved forms half of a genetic algorithm .
23 ‘ Say Markham is paying Wheeler or Wheeler is paying Markham for services rendered and say Paul was implicated either way , might not Rosamund know about it , if it involved money going into or out of any of Wheeler 's accounts ? ’
24 It was after nine o'clock , however , by the time he got there , since his route was complicated , and involved calls at the mortuary of the General Hospital , at police headquarters , and a telephone call to the forensic laboratory .
25 Clearly these involved Roger in a considerable amount of work , and at a time when Roger 's wife was giving birth to their daughter in the UK !
26 No justification was offered for these areas ; neither are they identical to the six lines of development adopted by the Assessment of Performance Unit , which also involved HMIs .
27 The case involved Jose Tamayo-Reyes , a Cuban immigrant , who was attempting to challenge his no-contest plea to manslaughter charges , on the grounds that he had not understood the meaning of the term manslaughter .
28 It involved support for international economic expansion promoted by the USA and for agreements between European governments in reviving trade , particularly with countries of the Eastern hemisphere .
29 The rivalry between the US and the USSR was sometimes direct and sometimes involved proxies .
30 SAVE , working with the Jubilee Hall campaign , had drawn up a scheme for alternative use , which involved building on the adjacent empty site .
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