Example sentences of "been [art] member [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There he worked as a gardener for Sir John Blencowe ( 1642–1726 ) who had been the Member of Parliament for Brackley from 1690–1695 , and from 1696 –1714 had served as a Baron of the Exchequer and Justice of Common Pleas [ DNB , 2 , 672–3 ] . |
| 2 | She has been a member of the party since 1911 , and for 50 years , until a few weeks ago , collected subscriptions . |
| 3 | Von Karajan had been a member of the Nazi party , and saw no reason publicly to mourn musicians who had been persecuted ; Abbado by contrast is a left-winger whose mother was imprisoned by the Nazis for hiding a Jewish child . |
| 4 | Muawad had been a member of the 99-seat Parliament since he was elected to represent his home region in 1957 at age 32 . |
| 5 | Peter Silverlock , whose father had been a Member of Parliament , acquired it in 1367 . |
| 6 | I felt something of the same awe and excitement I had experienced four years before when tramping round and round Warwick Gardens with Chesterton , debating the execution of Charles I. Here was someone who ought to have been a member of the Society that G. K. C. had dominated at St. Paul 's from 1891 to 1893 . |
| 7 | Noel Doherty , a committed loyalist , had been a member of Paisley 's congregation since 1956 . |
| 8 | Sir Keith had been a member of the Heath cabinet throughout the disastrous Tory administration of the early seventies . |
| 9 | Mrs Haemaelaeinen , who has been a member of the Finnish central bank board and is credited with putting together a rescue package for commercial banks earlier this year , is highly regarded as a banker with integrity . |
| 10 | SIR JOSEPH BURKE , who has died aged 78 , was Professor of Fine Arts at Melbourne University for more than three decades , before which he had been a member of Attlee 's secretariat at 10 Downing Street . |
| 11 | HOWARD Davies , 41 , director-general designate of the CBI , confessed yesterday that he had once been a member of the Labour party , but regretted it as a ‘ bizarre incident ’ . |
| 12 | Tom King , 58 , has been a member of the Government since January 1983 when he was appointed Environment Secretary . |
| 13 | He had contested parliamentary seats in three General Elections and had been a member of Maidenhead Town Council and chairman of its Library Committee . |
| 14 | From this last question I realised that he thought Leslie had been a member of the Special Operations Executive ( S.O.E. ) , whose agents , trained in Britain and flown or dropped into France , worked in association with local groups , and sent back information to London . |
| 15 | When I explained that my husband had been a member of the British armed forces and was in uniform , the official seemed to lose all interest , which I thought strange , as there had been French and Belgian equivalents of the S.A.S. in 1944 . |
| 16 | I have been a member of one of the organisations mentioned in ‘ Join Up ’ for some 12 years . |
| 17 | She has been a member of the Bramshott and Liphook community Care Group since it started and is now on the executive committee . |
| 18 | He had been a member of the Leaders ' Meeting from its inception . |
| 19 | He had been a member of the Building Committee which , forty or so years before , had planned the Memorial Church . |
| 20 | Wheeler said he had been a member of the force for twelve and a half years and had been on duty on the Docks since last August . |
| 21 | James ( The Amazing ) Randi has been a member of this select set for many years now . |
| 22 | The adjudicator , C. Jordan , had not been a member of the Academy when the problem was originally posed , and it seems from his official report that he was not apprised of Smith 's priority . |
| 23 | Although Blackett had been a member of the MAUD Committee — Britain 's first approach to atomic energy , subsequently dismantled after the realistic appraisal that if anyone could pull-off the atomic bomb it would be the Americans — Blackett 's love affair with the Russians ensured that he played no part in the US wartime atomic bomb project or its post-1945 British successor . |
| 24 | Through his chairmanship of the TCCB 's Registration Sub-committee , he has been a member of the Executive Committee of the TCCB since 1980 . |
| 25 | He 's been a member of the Medieval Circle for twelve years and goes to all their functions . |
| 26 | The following week he took his family on Sunday and has been a member of the church ever since . |
| 27 | Attlee , who had been a member of the Simon Commission and a non-dissenting contributor to its very gradualistic report , had always been extremely cautious in his statements on colonial issues . |
| 28 | During the Norwegian Campaign of early 1940 he had been a member of 263 Squadron flying Gladiators , and had claimed one victory and a share in another before being wounded . |
| 29 | Unlike Blackburn , I have actually been a member of just such a ‘ new left grouping ’ , the ‘ Alternative 86 ’ Alliance ( of greens and reds ) set up in Paris in 1986 with just such an anti-sectarian aim in mind . |
| 30 | A CPN has been a member of the Bristol Eating Disorder Team for the past six years . |