Example sentences of "been involved [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had briefly been involved with the Logical Positivists of the Vienna Circle and developed a strong leaning toward the importance of systematic empirical observation as the cornerstone of the scientific method , and a corresponding dislike of abstracted theorising and metaphysical speculation . |
| 2 | Derek has been involved with the international side since the tragic death of Bobby McGregor , serving under two physios , Jim McGregor and the current occupant , John McVea . |
| 3 | Derek has been involved with the international side since the tragic death of Bobby McGregor , serving under two physios , Jim McGregor and the current occupant , John McVea . |
| 4 | You 've both followed international careers , acquiring a cosmopolitan patina , you 've both been involved with the same man … |
| 5 | Although he was opposed to any plan to assassinate Hitler , he had been involved with the German resistance movement for some years , treading a dangerous path that was eventually to lead to his downfall and death . |
| 6 | By mid 1994 every person in the Company should have been involved with an important and meaningful piece of TOP improvement activity . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | The full significance of this fleeting moment is only evident when the letter page of HBR reveals a bitter contest over screen design between American Airlines , the developers of the system , and trans Atlantic competitors ; ‘ a chief legal officer of a major international airline … had just been involved in a long , rancorous struggle to get its non stop flight from Europe to the United States off the 23rd of SABRE 's 23 possible screens ’ ( HBR , July-August 1990 : 176 ) . |
| 10 | The police suspected that Samuel had been involved in a serious armed robbery at a building society in Birmingham . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Yeah I have never been involved in a one world week event at St Michael 's . |
| 15 | It does n't require a great bite of imagination to see that the Germans for example would have been extremely reluctant to have been involved in a four nation project with a nuclear capability available as part of it . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | For the past nine months it has been involved in a nightly Royal Mail operation out of the airport . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Through his business dealings the victim had been involved in a multimillion pound civil lawsuit . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In marked contrast to Solihull , where , a similar period after its launch by the LEA , less than half of the teachers could claim even to have seen the scheme booklet ( Turner and Clift , op. cit. ) , in Oxfordshire , by the end of 1984 four-fifths of teachers had already been involved in a whole-school review . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been involved in a few of these things but I 've never seen anyone bring it up to the level he did — he turned it up a few notches . ’ |