Example sentences of "[to-vb] [be] involved " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arrow Air itself appears to have been involved in the Iran-Contra air supply operation . |
| 2 | About 10,000 people were believed to have been involved in the clashes , in which police , army units and factory militias armed with water-cannon and truncheons clashed with crowds hurling cobblestones and shouting ‘ We want to get out . ’ |
| 3 | Mrs Xoliswa Falati was reported last week to have been involved in an eviction dispute with Mrs Mandela , wife of the African National Congress leader , and to have telephoned a newspaper seeking help , before being driven off in a car with several men . |
| 4 | At least two coaches seem to have been involved in a collision in the Leopoldstadt , near the canal . |
| 5 | It could even be said that the predator in the assemblage is the least likely one to have been involved in its accumulation . |
| 6 | ‘ Who considers those persons to have been involved in abuse or attempted abuse of the immigration laws ? |
| 7 | They were rejected in Rochdale , and even in Nottingham , where cases of sexual abuse were upheld , and nine parents were found to have been involved in elaborate and organised abuse , there was no evidence that they did this as part of any satanic rituals or worship . |
| 8 | BOURNEMOUTH midfield player Shaun Brooks , who was alleged to have been involved in a fight with team manager Tony Pulis three weeks ago , is set to join Third Division Stockport in £30,000 deal . |
| 9 | In 1980 an editorial shake-up occurred following the detention of several dissidents alleged to have been involved in a plot . |
| 10 | The England and British Lions lock is alleged to have been involved in the incident in the match between his side , Preston Grasshoppers , and Stoke which left Steve Maskery with a bad head injury . |
| 11 | Security forces are believed to have been involved in numerous killings this year in Silvan , Diyarbakir province , thought previously to have been carried out by Hizbullah . |
| 12 | Watton was the RAF 's Central Signals Establishment and 192 is thought to have been involved in radio calibration duties . |
| 13 | But , first , they have to understand why such an instruction is given , even when it appears to be against their interests , and secondly they have to have been involved in the decision and to understand and accept the consequences of such a strategic direction . |
| 14 | Levine , an investment banker at a prestigious Wall Street firm , was alleged to have been involved in insider trading over a period of six years , during which time he made huge profits while trading on the basis of material nonpublic information in the securities of companies . |
| 15 | But certainly the family and descendants of Judas of Galilee seem to have been involved in many of the more ambitious , more co-ordinated , more professional Zealot enterprises . |
| 16 | On the contrary , they would seem to have been involved in precisely the kind of political and military activity from which Jesus , according to later tradition , is dissociated . |
| 17 | Now sexism is so fundamental an evil that it becomes very difficult for anyone who has grasped this to envisage that God could be said to have been involved with human history . |
| 18 | A third public interest immunity certificate of the same date issued by the Secretary of State for Transport , relating to particular details of the explosive device thought to have been involved in the disaster , has now been withdrawn . |
| 19 | The first 16 defendants are said to have been involved in the fraud or in receiving and laundering the money involved . |
| 20 | The presence of members of Anna 's family in Gaul at the nunnery of Farmoûtier-en-Brie ( HE 111 , 8 ) emphasizes the continuing Frankish orientation of his kingdom and throughout his reign Anna appears to have been involved in opposition to the Mercians . |
| 21 | Trust Rune Christensen to have been involved with the most exquisite-looking woman in the room ! |
| 22 | The Tanat Valley Railway was at one time likely to have been involved in the grandiose proposal of 1845 concerning the West Midlands , Shrewsbury and Coast of Wales Railway Company . |
| 23 | Barco , although widely rumoured to have been involved in the drafting of the open letter , stated on Jan. 19 that the war against the cartels would continue in order to " assure the final success of the government 's policy " . |
| 24 | The chairman-designate , Uwe Kuntze , of a West German company alleged to have been involved in the manufacture of a chemical weapons plant in Rabta , Libya , admitted that the firm , Imhausen-Chemie , had appeared " not to have respected regulations ' during the affair but protested that the company had not acted " intentionally or maliciously " . |
| 25 | Those arrested included ( i ) Lt.-Col. Rodolfo Calzado , alleged to have been involved in the August 1987 coup attempt [ see pp. 35709-11 ] , who was arrested on Dec. 31 ; ( ii ) Lt.-Col. Billy Bibit , arrested by military intelligence on Jan. 17 , in connection with the December 1989 coup attempt [ see pp. 37120-21 ] ; and ( iii ) Lt. Vincente Tomas and Lt. Emil Ong , alleged to have planned a series of " destabilizing " actions to coincide with the Gulf crisis . |
| 26 | The statement said that younger Nahda members appeared to have been involved in the February incident " with the agreement of some of the movement 's leadership " , and that Nahda 's membership and activities would therefore be " frozen … pending the decisions which we may take in the near future " . |
| 27 | There had been speculation that soldiers alleged to have been involved in the Tchin-Tabaradene massacre of perhaps hundreds of Tuareg dissidents in May 1990 [ see pp. 37703 ; 37811-12 ] , now fearing justice , might launch a pre-emptive mutiny . |
| 28 | Army , police and customs personnel were known to have been involved in making the country a major trans-shipment point for Colombian drug cartels targeting European markets . |
| 29 | In return , Central Bank governor Jose Cuisia agreed that US$344 million of other banks ' loans would be eligible for bond conversion , while securing the right of the Philippines to take action against any bank later found to have been involved in fraudulent transactions . |
| 30 | Even Wat Tyler , the most famous of these , does not seem to have been involved in the earliest disturbances in Kent , as he is not mentioned in indictments dealing with disorder in Canterbury on 10 and 11 June , when the leader was John Hales of Malling . |