Example sentences of "[been] a member [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | its inflation must be no more than 1.5 per cent than the average of the lowest three inflation rates in the EMS ; 2. its long-term interest rates must be no more than 2 per cent than the average of the lowest three member countries ' rates ; 3. it must have been a member of the narrow band of fluctuation for at least two years , without a realignment ; 4. its budget deficit must be no larger than 3 per cent of GDP ; 5. its National Debt must not exceed 60 per cent of GDP . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Under its terms , Communist or " front " organizations had to register with the Attorney-General ; their members were banned from employment in defence plants , and prevented from obtaining passports ; and no foreigner who had been a member of the Communist Party could enter the USA . |
| 4 | In fact , he was a Beirut used-car dealer who had once been a member of the Syrian-backed Amal militia headed by Nabi Berri , a Shiite Muslim cabinet minister in the Lebanese government ( and a less well-known businessman in Detroit , Michigan ) . |
| 5 | He had been a member of the New Wafd until 1984 , when he had left the party in protest at its electoral alliance with the Moslem Brotherhood . |
| 6 | He has been a member of the Chief Executive 's Management Group since those early days and is the only remaining director from the team which put the Council together in 1974 . |
| 7 | On 27 December Babrak Karmal , who had been a member of the post-coup government but who had subsequently been exiled to the USSR , announced that the former president had been deposed and that he had taken power ; the following day it was announced that Hafizullah Amin had been executed for ‘ crimes against the noble people of Afghanistan ’ . |
| 8 | The head of Israeli military intelligence , Gen. Uri Saguy , said on Israeli radio that Bseisou had been a member of the Black September group which had killed 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics of 1972 [ see pp. 25493-96 ] . |
| 9 | He has been a member of the episcopal committee to liaise with the Major Religious Superiors since 1984 and is the present chairman of the committee for consecrated life . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | I had never been a member of the Labour Party , and on the first occasion when I could claim a vote I voted for the Liberal candidate in the Hampstead constituency . |
| 12 | Nicholas Pentreath ( right ) , a graduate from Plymouth Polytechnic with a degree in Nautical Studies , has been a Member of the Baltic Exchange since 1980 . |
| 13 | It is believed the victim may have been a member of the Irish People 's Liberation organisation . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , my mother , who had been a member of the Young Communist League before the war , went with three young children by boat and train to Majorca . |
| 15 | Muawad had been a member of the 99-seat Parliament since he was elected to represent his home region in 1957 at age 32 . |
| 16 | Many considered she should have been a member of the royal commission on population ( 1946–9 ) but she did give evidence and published her widely read The Population of Britain in 1947 . |
| 17 | Alf Plumb has been a Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute since 1973 and a Member of the British Institute of Management for 13 years . |
| 18 | He has been a member of the Royal Dorset Yacht Club for the past twenty three years and is now an honorary life member . |
| 19 | He has also been a member of the actuarial profession 's working party on AIDS and developed a model suitable for forecasting the number of AIDS cases in the UK . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He 's been a member of the Medieval Circle for twelve years and goes to all their functions . |
| 22 | He has been a member of the Scottish International Cycling Squad for 8 years . |
| 23 | Tom Burness has also been a member of the Scottish Community Education Council and the Scottish Council for Educational Technology . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Scoulding , for example , had been a member of the Amalgamated Society of Watermen , Lightermen , and Bargemen since 1895 , London organiser since 1911 , and district secretary of the Transport Workers Federation since 1912 . |
| 26 | She herself had been a member of the original revolutionary junta formed in 1979 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Hence his attempt to enlist T. E. Lawrence in a campaign to prevent war with Germany in the 1930s , which ended in Lawrence 's tragic death , and his naive belief that since Adolf Hitler had been a member of the German regiment with whom he had fraternized in 1914 he was basically a man like Williamson who wished to maintain peace at all costs , unless forced into war by the manipulation of others . |
| 29 | Been a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain , the European Community Youth Orchestra and played as an ‘ extra ’ with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in the UK , Germany and Spain . |
| 30 | Of course Potter has nothing against unions as such , he has been a member of the National Union of Teachers all his working life . |