Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] be involved [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ David had been involved with a couple of things in the past , producing a couple of B-sides when I was in Quiver — we actually used his home studio for demos . |
| 2 | Five seats were also given to the Ittehad-i-Islami , a Saudi-backed fundamentalist Wahhabi Sunni group led by Abdur Rab Rasool Sayyaf , whose fighters had been involved in fierce street battles with Wahdat in Kabul on June 2-6 . |
| 3 | I can see this now , yet it was not until nearly ten years after I became a Christian that I finally faced the issue that whatever other influences had been involved in my conversion ( such as my family and friends and the work of God in my life ) there was a sense in which the decision to believe was entirely my responsibility . |
| 4 | Later James McInally , a forensic scientist with Lothian and Borders police , told the court that after tests on the accused 's clothing and in the burned house , they had concluded that Sutherland had been involved in splashing petrol in the house . |
| 5 | The schools had been involved with financial devolution for a varying number of years , from just over one year to more than seven . |
| 6 | The Archbishop of San Salvador , Mgr Arturo Rivera y Damas , claimed that he had evidence that members of the army 's 1st Infantry Battalion had been involved in the massacre . |
| 7 | In the months Nicholson had been involved in the writing and filming of The Trip , flower-power had reached its peak and the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco had become the Mecca of hippiedom , where all the children with flowers in their hair were at ; naturally enough , this prevailing situation provided AIP with the backdrop for another psychedelic experience called Psych-Out . |
| 8 | The document also alleged that Montazeri had been involved in a gang whose members had been executed in Iran in 1987 after smuggling explosives to Saudi Arabia during the pilgrimage to Mecca the previous year [ see pp. 35541-42 ; 35677 ] . |
| 9 | Elise 's parents had been involved in that accident , too , and it was only after the two cousins lost their families that they became so close . |
| 10 | The sorry plight of an ailing club continued with the news that a supporters ' coach had been involved in a crash and that only 12 youngsters could be rounded up to take on Leicester in a youth match . |
| 11 | But there was no suggestion that Gray had been involved in anything improper and Jefferson continued to be involved in youth work . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's the first time we 've been banned anywhere , ’ said Barry , adding that singer Michael Stipe had been involved in the production of the video and that the rest of the band had only seen it once . |
| 13 | Air Force helicopters had been involved in relief flights for Kurds in northern Iraq , and medical units were operating with UN forces in Cambodia . |
| 14 | Heath had been involved in the two goals that got the Whites off the hook after Coleraine made an impressive start . |
| 15 | Touche Ross had been involved in discussions with COSLA and the Scottish Office and had provided all of the supporting information and details . |
| 16 | In the two financial years 1987-88 and 1988-89 , the council had been involved in 592 deals amounting to a notional £6,052.5m . |
| 17 | The article went on to announce that although 35,000 had passed through the Tiller schools , not one Girl had been involved in a divorce , they had nearly all got married and to keep the record straight she hastily added , ‘ Those that had n't , all hoped to do so ’ . |
| 18 | The north London club 's preparations were far from ideal , entering the game just 48 hours after they had been fined £50,000 for a breach of League regulations and chairman Stan Flashman had been involved in a scuffle with photographers at the London hearing . |
| 19 | It was again noted that he did not deny the wider allegation that other members of the Reagan election campaign had been involved in such a deal . |
| 20 | Yet they could have missed out last season if the third team had been involved in play-offs . ’ |
| 21 | Since the earliest days of their conversion to Christianity , Greek Christians had been involved in a creative effort to baptise their glorious past and to wed it to the originally semitic Christian experience . |
| 22 | According to the security forces , Michael Hart had been involved in numerous IRA attacks and had been rumoured to have triggered the Ballygawley bomb . |
| 23 | In that case the plaintiff had been involved in a car accident . |
| 24 | I had not appreciated the fact that my right hon. Friend the Member for Finchley had been involved in the matter ; as far as I know , she has not . |
| 25 | Hurtado had been involved in disagreements over economic policy with Industry and Commerce Minister Guido Pennano , who criticized the government 's IMF-backed tight fiscal policy for deepening the recession , failing to cure hyperinflation , and making exports uncompetitive by overvaluing the inti . |
| 26 | The police suspected that Samuel had been involved in a serious armed robbery at a building society in Birmingham . |
| 27 | At a press conference in Lahore yesterday , Zia 's son , Mr Ijaz ul-Haq accused the PPP of being involved in ‘ narco-terrorism ’ and he claimed that he had evidence that the Al Zulfiqar group had been involved in the assassination . |
| 28 | In a development connected to the election campaign it was revealed on Dec. 18 that the Justice Department had secretly appointed a special prosecutor to investigate whether senior White House officials had been involved in a search of Clinton 's passport records . |
| 29 | The only blot on an otherwise clean campaign came on the eve of the poll when the communist newspaper Sovietskaya Rossiya published a report implying that Yeltsin had been involved in an illegal deal to sell billions of roubles at a cheap rate to a British company . |
| 30 | Indeed he agreed that a great deal of hypocrisy had been involved in what Macaulay had called one of the ‘ fits of morality ’ to which the British nation was periodically subject . |