Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] among [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next day , Beaverbrook ( who , with Amery , had been among those who had helped bring down the Lloyd George coalition in 1922 ) ‘ strongly urged ’ Amery ‘ to work closely with Hailsham both to keep the positive campaign going and decide when the critical moment should come for putting an end to the Coalition ’ . |
| 2 | Years before , when Valery Giscard d'Estaing was minister if finance , he had been among those to call on the Shah at the Villa Suvretta in St Moritz . |
| 3 | It would not have been so light a thing to her if Hotspur had been among those dour-faced lordlings clattering through the streets of Shrewsbury with their shame . |
| 4 | The French government on Aug. 19 ordered its naval commanders to apply sanctions " with firmness " ; France , however , had been among those Security Council members reportedly expressing concern on Aug. 13 over the prospect of individual members , rather than the Security Council , deciding to move to enforce a blockade . |
| 5 | Gen. Marin Neagoe , a former divisional chief of the Securitate security forces , was imprisoned for seven years on May 29 for his role in suppressing the riots ; on May 10 the former Securitate chief Julian Vlad had been among those sentenced to prison terms of up to five years [ see p. 38207 ] . |
| 6 | Deputy chairs Boris Isayev and Svetlana Goryacheva , who had been among those seeking Yeltsin 's resignation in April 1991 [ see p. 38130 ] , had resigned their posts on Oct. 24 . |
| 7 | The panel noted " direct and circumstantial evidence " that Gen. Juan Rafael Bustillo , then Commander of the Air Force ( now military attaché in Israel ) , Gen. René Emilio Ponce , then the Army Chief of Staff ( currently Defence and Public Security Minister ) , and Gen. Juan Orlando Zepeda , currently the Deputy Defence Minister , had been among those who had planned an attack the day before at the Salvadorean military academy . |
| 8 | In 1944 the Ingushis and the Chechens had been among several ethnic groups charged en masse with collaborating with the Nazi German invaders and deported to Central Asia . |