Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] be involved [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The various people mentioned , such as Ned and Barley , had all been involved in the operation in one way or another . |
| 2 | The use of water cannon was criticised as having been unnecessary and for affecting members of the public who had not been involved in the march . |
| 3 | Poles had fought both for and against Germany , and , partly because their state had not been involved in the war , Poles were ready — unlike the other participants in the war — to fight again , this time for something in which they had a stake . |
| 4 | Danov also declared his conviction that Bulgarian agents had not been involved in the 1981 assassination attempt against Pope John Paul II . |
| 5 | The Asian youth told officers he had not been involved in the alleged attack , but that he himself and his friends had been set upon by a gang . |
| 6 | Graham Berry , the SAC 's director of finance , said he had not been involved in the decision . |
| 7 | Of Korean communists associated with Russia , the best known was Kim Il Sung but he had also been involved with the CCP . |
| 8 | According to a government communiqué after the coup attempt , Gen. Marcos Zarate Rota , the commander of the army , had also been involved in the conspiracy and was under investigation for drug trafficking . |
| 9 | Richard and Ian had both been involved with the revival of the Bellerby Sword Dance Play , in 1982 for the anniversary of the school and in 1983 for the Richard III celebrations in Middleham . |
| 10 | I had n't been involved in the organization and knew very little about what was going to happen . |
| 11 | According to " diplomatic sources " ( as cited in The Independent of April 4 ) , apart from handing over the Lockerbie subjects , Libya was being asked by Petrovsky to ( i ) provide the UK government with details of its contacts with the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) ; ( ii ) make a written renunciation of " terrorism " ; ( iii ) close five training camps used by the Palestinian Abu Nidal and other groups ; and ( iv ) extradite an individual who had allegedly been involved in the 1988 attack on the Greek cruise ship City of Poros . |
| 12 | He had briefly been involved with the Logical Positivists of the Vienna Circle and developed a strong leaning toward the importance of systematic empirical observation as the cornerstone of the scientific method , and a corresponding dislike of abstracted theorising and metaphysical speculation . |