Example sentences of "had [been] secretary of " in BNC.
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| 1 | George Blake , the MI6 officer who had been secretary of the committee that had planned Operation Gold in 1953 had joined MI6 shortly after the war . |
| 2 | He had been secretary of the BRS and when he went on furlough I was asked to take on his duties . |
| 3 | U Aung San was succeeded by an intimate and trusted colleague , Thakin Nu , who had been Secretary of the AFPFL . |
| 4 | Elwin Wright , who up until 1937 had been secretary of a respectable Anglo-German Fellowship , advocated the shooting of Jews , called Neville Chamberlain a liar and a traitor and stated that Parliament was a ‘ blackmailing corrupt body of bastards . ’ |
| 5 | A successful businessman , he had been on the Board since 1972 , and had been Secretary of the Old Stopfordians ' Association between 1966 and 1970 , and President in 1972/3 . |
| 6 | Casaroli , 76 , who had been Secretary of State since 1979 [ see p. 29852 ] , was widely regarded as the architect of the Vatican 's " Ostpolitik " , stressing closer ties with eastern Europe and the creation of diplomatic links with the Soviet Union [ see pp. 36830 ; 37129 ; 37258 ; 37394 ; 37899 ] . |
| 7 | Alessandro Natta , who had been secretary of the PCI from June 1984 to June 1988 ( when he had been succeeded by Achille Occhetto — see p. 35989 ) , announced his retirement from active political life in May 1990 . |