Example sentences of "[to-vb] [be] [adv] involved [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Mark was not an apostle , yet he seems to have been closely involved with three of the principal characters of the early Church : |
| 2 | Nevertheless the evidence which we have is enough to show that the situation in Merovingian Francia may not have been so very different from Visigothic Spain , where kings are well known to have been closely involved in the major ecclesiastical councils of the kingdom . |
| 3 | Casey , appointed head of the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) by Reagan , was believed to have been deeply involved in the subsequent Iran-contra scandal whereby the Reagan administration undertook the clandestine shipment of arms to Iran . |
| 4 | Nonetheless , he may well have had a guilty conscience : he certainly tried to use his influence to poison Mozart 's career , out of sheer jealousy at the younger man 's superior talents ; but he does not seem to have been directly involved in his death . |
| 5 | In total , between 3 June 1911 and the end of that year 270,000 workers concerned with docks and shipping were estimated to have been directly involved in disputes , of which a substantial proportion were seamen . |
| 6 | Italian police believed Baragiola to have been directly involved in the kidnapping of Aldo Moro in 1978 [ see pp. 29053-55 ; 32756-57 ] . |