Example sentences of "and [vb past] [been] [prep] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The necessity of constructing popular consent among the electorate was an important component of Conservative thought , and had been since extension of the franchise to sections of the urban working classes in 1867 . |
| 2 | Though only 53 , he had been associated with the School for 44 years , having been a pupil at Greek Street , and had been in charge of Greek since 1938 . |
| 3 | Zabaleta , 39 , known in ETA as Waldo , had been involved with ETA since he was a teenager and had been in charge of its itinerant commandos since 1984 . |
| 4 | Vu Oanh , 67 , and Le Phuoc Tho , 64 , were both elected to the secretariat in 1986 and had been in charge of mass mobilization and agriculture , respectively ; Pham Van Kai , 58 , the Soviet-trained Chair of the State Commission for Planning , was one of five southerners in the new politburo and a former mayor of Ho Chi Minh City ; Bui Thien Ngo , 62 , was Permanent Vice-Minister of the Interior ; Nong Duc Manh , 51 , a member of the Tay ethnic group and the first minority leader to be elected to the politburo , was head of the central committee 's commission for nationalities ; Pham The Duyet , 55 , was secretary of the Hanoi party committee and a former trade union leader ; Nguyen Duc Binh , 64 , was director of the Nguyen Duc Binh Institute for training party cadres ; Vo Tran Chi , 64 , was secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City party committee . |
| 5 | The defendant had been a director of plaintiffs for 13 years and had been in charge of the development and sales of a certain type of heater . |