Example sentences of "had [been] member " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In the event , permission was given for Paisley and Beattie to go forward because they had been members of the Stormont Parliament before it had been suspended . |
| 2 | The show was worthy of the Cambridge Footlights , and I have no doubt that some of the participants had been members of that renowned dramatic society . |
| 3 | It has been estimated that 60 per cent of the fascist elite had been members of the armed forces and over 40 per cent saw active service in the first World War . |
| 4 | Neill and Nicholls L.JJ. , both of whom had been members of the court sitting in Ashtiani v. |
| 5 | His best friend , Simon , was one of six children and all had been members in their turn . |
| 6 | About a dozen deputies had been members of the outgoing parliament ; the average age of the new members was 45 . |
| 7 | The four , who had been members of the late President Sukarno 's palace guard , were shot by firing squad in Jakarta , despite widespread pleas for clemency from the international community . |
| 8 | Three candidates who had been members of the CNC , Nadjita Ngororo , Doungous Kimto and Bobekreo Tchimne , were also defeated . |
| 9 | The government on July 18 took direct control of the State Property Agency ( SPA ) , whose officials had been members of the former communist government , and a week later announced that the head of the SPA , Istvan Tompe , would be replaced by Lajos Crepi ( former vice-president of the old post office ) . |
| 10 | The arrest of three police officers and two military captains who had been members of the elite UESAT unit of the Panamanian Defence Forces commanded by the former dictator Gen. Manuel Noriega , led to suggestions that a serious coup attempt had been intended , and that it had enjoyed wide support from the police . |
| 11 | Both had been members of the party secretariat . |
| 12 | According to the Information Minister , Mohamed Ahmed Ould Lamine , the majority of those involved had been members of the army and navy and had admitted that they had " received orders from Senegal " . |
| 13 | All three had been members of the Khmer Rouge administration in the eastern section of Cambodia who had taken up arms against the Pol Pot regime in 1978 . |
| 14 | HCS member Ali Haroun said in Brussels on Feb. 26 that half of a total of 50 people killed had been members of the army and gendamerie . |
| 15 | Of those killed , 31 had been members of the police or army . |
| 16 | Ukraine and Byelarus had been members since 1945 , the three Baltic states joined in September 1991 [ see p. 38458 ] , Russia assumed the Soviet Union 's seat in December [ see p. 38744 ] , and the eight joining on March 2 were Armenia , Azerbaijan , Kazakhstan , Kirgizstan , Moldova , Tajikistan , Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan . |
| 17 | These men supplied many of the first generation of Russian permanent representatives in western Europe : of the twelve of these accredited in the first decade of the eighteenth century five had been members of the group of students sent to Venice in 1697 . |
| 18 | ‘ The club gave us a presentation because they looked into their records and found we had been members the longest , ’ said Mrs Williams . |