Example sentences of "have [been] [adj] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The council has been involved in a separate row over Bellarmine because it is insisting that staff must apply for jobs at the school to which their pupils would transfer . |
| 2 | For the past nine months it has been involved in a nightly Royal Mail operation out of the airport . |
| 3 | I have recently been made aware that your Council has been involved in a public inquiry relating to an appeal for the erection of a football stadium and associated commercial development within the Oxford Green Belt . |
| 4 | Spracklen , who has accepted the position of coach to the Canadian men 's team , has been involved in a long-running disagreement with the director of international rowing , Penny Chuter . |
| 5 | A description of the precise relations between Rome and her Italian allies ( not to speak of the relations between the city of Rome and the periphery of Roman territory proper ) would not have been inconceivable in a Hellenistic historian . |
| 6 | The thought that the world might have been different in a certain respect is taken to be the thought that there is a possible world which does differ from the actual world in that respect ( and probably others too ) . |
| 7 | Having been involved in a substantial amount of this sort of work for 15 years , I believe it is correct to aver that once a person reaches 60 there is an unwritten rule or convention which determines that he or she shall not receive a first appointment . |
| 8 | Herbie Connors was the local water bailiff who had been involved in a personal battle of wits with Yanto ever since his return home from the war . |
| 9 | The police suspected that Samuel had been involved in a serious armed robbery at a building society in Birmingham . |
| 10 | In particular , Nestlé and Suchard had been involved in a similar takeover battle for the ownership of Cote d'Or , the Belgian chocolate company , during 1987 . |
| 11 | A number of these had been involved in a similar coup attempt in July 1989 when a smaller group of rebels briefly gained control of the radio station . |
| 12 | Then he had spoilt it by saying that his reasons for leaving Australia had been personal , and she had assumed he had been involved in a similar situation to that with Jennifer . |
| 13 | He learned of the death of thousands of British troops who had been involved in a combined operation with the French against Kaiser Bill 's army . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Mr Jowett , who had a shotgun licence and took part in pheasant shooting , had been involved in a bizarre knife attack at his home four months earlier . |
| 16 | The Hamadan clan , like the Jafaars , had been involved in a losing struggle against the Syrian cartel ever since Rifat Assad and Monzer al-Kassar had taken over the Bekaa Valley in 1975 with the help of the Syrian Army . |
| 17 | This had been close-carpeted in a warm golden colour , but Kate guessed it covered more beautiful old wood floors . |
| 18 | Her eyes had been open in a fixed and vacant stare , and the waxen tinge to her skin had told its own tale . |
| 19 | If sections have been pre-impregnated in a cold-setting resin such as Epo-tek , then they should be bonded with the same material . |
| 20 | The company claims the product , originally developed by the Cambridge University Engineering Department Speech Group and available through an exclusive alliance with Cambridge University Technology Transfer Co , marks the first time these capabilities have been available in a single commercial product . |
| 21 | The company claims the product , originally developed by the Cambridge University Engineering Department Spaach Group and available through an exclusive alliance with Cambridge University Technology Transfer Company , marks the first time these capabilities have been available in a single commercial product . |
| 22 | Parents Barry and Carmen Daniels have been involved in a legal battle to force Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley to reopen London 's Westminster Children 's Hospital , where a transplant was to have taken place . |
| 23 | Parents Barry and Carmen Daniels have been involved in a legal battle to force Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley to reopen facilities at Westminster Children 's Hospital where a transplant was to have taken place . |
| 24 | Tomorrow Aileen goes to Mossend in Lanarkshire where some residents have been involved in a ten-year long row with travelling people who live on their doorstep . |
| 25 | The meeting had been called by the Premier Division club 's majority shareholders , Hamish and George Deans , who have been involved in a bitter dispute with fellow club directors . |
| 26 | What the analysis of the corporate strategy literature suggests is that , while it may be possible to ascertain the relevant factors in this way , the findings will be more reliable if those managers have been involved in a careful strategic analysis of competitive strengths . |
| 27 | ‘ The breadth of knowledge and expertise which each person brings to the team is enormous and by working together we have been able in a short space of time to see the company woods from the departmental trees . ’ |