Example sentences of "involved be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The job involved being in charge of ‘ country correspondents ’ in villages scattered within 25 to 50 miles around the city , editing their weekly contributions , measuring their column-inches for payments and generally supervising the rural aspect of the newspaper . |
| 2 | His future , if he had one , involved being permanently connected , by two six foot hoses , to a massive power unit weighing 375 lb . |
| 3 | One of the more common Manhattan experiences of the early 1980s involved being approached by well-dressed individuals and asked to sign a petition helping the NAP get on the ballot in the name of democracy , and then being hit for a contribution . |
| 4 | In fact , the event was even more profound than that , because it was also an explosion of the four dimensions ( as well as , it is thought , a number of others , which almost immediately ‘ rolled themselves up ’ so that we do not recognize them as such — the matter and energy involved being only a secondary consideration ! |
| 5 | This involved being around , or hanging around , just watching , recording , holding conversations . |
| 6 | If you trust somebody okay you 're quite open to them , they 're quite open to you if you co-operate you 're flexible , you 're being flexible and you like to work together and what happens is is if you 've got low trust and low co-operation with somebody well what you 've got is really everybody both people or everybody involved being defensive constantly being def defensive , if you do n't trust somebody and you know you 're not co-operative you 're constantly looking over your back , what are they doing are they doing that 's gon na mess something up you know what are they trying to do now . |
| 7 | and I ca n't see the two people involved being able to stomach that very easily because questions like why did you not ask for counselling at the time or you were in charge and why did you not ensure he had any adequate |
| 8 | But after taking their patients to hospital , the six ambulancemen involved were all suspended without pay for refusing to work normally . |
| 9 | ‘ The delays involved were altogether unacceptable in my view and I had no doubt that they amounted to maladministration . ’ |
| 10 | Hull , who had Webbe watched in Bridgend 's game with Neath a week last Saturday , say that the two players involved were ‘ very keen ’ to turn professional . |
| 11 | In any case , it is clear that Mazmanian does not deal with social work programmes , and the change agents involved were not social workers . |
| 12 | the costs involved were prohibitive . |
| 13 | There was no apparent reason to administer the drug , although the quantities involved were not above the legal limits . |
| 14 | But if the person involved were prepared to take a chance , he would be even less so at six o'clock . ’ |
| 15 | The specific protests against soil conservation policies and other related issues ( such as the taking away of land for settlers , plantations or the removal of forests ) have tended to follow the same pattern — of violent , politically primitive , and usually short-lived protest involving marches on towns or centres of perceived political power of their oppressors and occasional guerrilla warfare ( e.g. the Mau Mau movement in Kenya , although the issues involved were much wider than soil conservation ) . |
| 16 | The sums involved were colossal : over £0.5 million for the spire and the roof . |
| 17 | They resented its reluctance to accept that the opinion of a psychologist based on test evidence was more valid than the opinion of the man in the street — or on the jury — based on observation , and they were annoyed that the court failed to recognise that the tests involved were as confidential as those carried out by any other medical practitioner . |
| 18 | The two boys involved were awarded silver medals for bravery , and damage was kept to a minimum through their courageous actions . |
| 19 | Perhaps the individuals involved were too obtuse in applying conventional planning models with little regard for local feeling , and they may have been less than adroit in their handling of public opinion . |
| 20 | Because of the role of the home in family life and because the sums involved were so much larger , getting behind with mortgage payments became a more serious potential debt trap than running up bills at retailers . |
| 21 | Evidence that oathing was going on in the reserve was at first dismissed with the claim that the Masai involved were ‘ half-and-halfs ’ , that is , the offspring of a Masai father and a Kikuyu mother : the loyalty of the ‘ pure Masai ’ was thought to be beyond question . |
| 22 | The other pilots involved were Flg.Off . |
| 23 | TI 's announcement , says Mr Garner , was in direct response to its experience of three years ago , when it attracted heavy criticism over its acquisition and goodwill accounting techniques — in spite of the huge amount spent on acquisitions , the substantial rationalisation costs involved were rarely charged to the p&l account . |
| 24 | A chapter by Maxim Boyko ( a Russian working in the privatisation ministry ) and Andrei Schleifer ( an American from Harvard ) explains how the difficulties that this involved were overcome . |
| 25 | Even after 1857 , when divorce came easier , the numbers involved were not large , averaging about 600 per year up to the start of the First World War . |
| 26 | ‘ The people involved were wonderful though . |
| 27 | Much of the indebtedness of these middle-income countries arose through borrowings in private sector capital markets , mainly the euro-currency markets , and although it was feared that the banks involved were seriously at risk it is becoming clear that rescheduling of debt by the banks with the debtor countries has been possible . |
| 28 | The boys involved were not allowed to collect any end-of-term prizes . |
| 29 | The Bible account makes it plain that the numbers involved were considerable . |
| 30 | The councillors involved were expelled from the ruling Labour Group on the council . |