Example sentences of "[vb past] be involved [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd been involved in that plane near miss on the way to York which would have frightened anyone and it was hard to concentrate properly . |
| 2 | I 'm the only one who 's ever been mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nine , taking numbers on polling stations and so on , and so when I got elected to the Council I think one or two people at any rate felt that it was quite natural that I should have the opportunity fairly soon . |
| 3 | Yes , I was the youngest ever Mayor of Lewes by a clear ten years , I 'm the only one who 's ever been Mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century , erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nineteen , I was on polling stations and so on . |
| 4 | The schools had been involved with financial devolution for a varying number of years , from just over one year to more than seven . |
| 5 | Cole 's extreme anti-semitism had developed as a result of his exposure to the Protocols when he had been involved with allied help to the White Russians in the Civil War in the 1920s . |
| 6 | It was widely suspected that the Tucayana had links with the military and had been involved with anti-insurgency operations against the Jungle Commandos and that they feared the establishment of a police force for the interior composed mainly of former Jungle Commando members . |
| 7 | Hekmatyar 's forces had threatened to destroy the capital , Kabul , and had been involved in intensified fighting immediately prior to Fareed 's arrival from Peshawar ; at least 100 people were killed and 300 wounded in the worst bombardment of Kabul , the capital , for two -months . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ If I had been involved in petty larceny I certainly would n't still be here arguing the point after your abuse ! ’ |
| 10 | A number of young activists who had been involved in internal politics since 1976 were also elected . |
| 11 | Mrs Shelley Howard , senior biologist of the Severn-Trent Region said the officer cadets had been involved in strenuous exercises which involved repeatedly going under the water . |
| 12 | He had been involved in other things . |
| 13 | From the moment the family moved to Frome in the early 17th century and gave up being subsistence farmers with a complementary craft skill or two under their belts , they had been involved in one way or another with the world of industry — be it as manufacturing craftsmen or as retailers . |
| 14 | British academic institutions which had been involved in satisfying Elena Ceauşescu 's desire for recognition by her colleagues handled their embarrassment with little aplomb after Christmas 1989 . |
| 15 | As you were aware , they had been involved in Three Hills in er developing Ayletts Field and successfully with us on our our most recent one . |
| 16 | At the same time she could n't help but wonder about the fact that in the space of twelve months he had been involved in three relationships , Anna Wallace , Amanda Knatchbull and herself , any one of which could have ended in marriage . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | All three of the speakers presenting papers had been involved in this review and discussed different aspects in their contributions . |
| 20 | Ripa De Meana had been involved in several conflicts with the UK government over such as issues as drinking water and clean beach standards and various transport projects [ see pp. 38544 ; R132 ] . |
| 21 | Political pressure on Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa increased in February , with fresh allegations that senior government figures had been involved in several cases of corruption . |
| 22 | Although several of the coup leaders were arrested many others escaped , including Gregorio " Gringo " Honasan , a key member of the Reform the Armed Forces Movement ( RAM ) , one of the clandestine right-wing organizations within the military which had been involved in repeated coup attempts against Aquino . |
| 23 | Operation Rescue had been involved in mass pickets of abortion clinics in Wichita , Kansas , in mid-1991 [ see p. 38383 ] . |
| 24 | I had been involved in another timeslip , and this was a day in late August . |
| 25 | But he denied newspaper reports that the men had been involved in last December 's bombing of a Pan Am jet which exploded above the Scottish village of Lockerbie with the loss of 270 lives . |
| 26 | The three alleged leaders arrested were Moslem Brotherhood members , although their lawyer on March 15 denied that they had been involved in any type of illegal activity . |
| 27 | He refused to confirm whether he had been involved in any talks with directors of Falkirk FC . |
| 28 | The armed forces continued to be split , chiefly over the issue of the treatment of soldiers involved in the " dirty war " of 1976-83 and in more recent military rebellions , with former officers such as Aldo Rico and Mohamed Alí Seineldin who had been involved in 1987-88 rebellions keeping a high public profile despite their pardoning and subsequent dismissal from the Army in October 1989 [ see p. 36972 ] . |
| 29 | The performance of students was also examined with regard to whether or not they had been involved in some type of formal study during the two years prior to entry to the DipHE . |
| 30 | According to the security forces , Michael Hart had been involved in numerous IRA attacks and had been rumoured to have triggered the Ballygawley bomb . |