Example sentences of "[vb past] been [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd been part of an 8-man patrol , call sign Bravo-2-0 , whose task was to seek and destroy the mobile Scud launchers with which Saddam Hussein was attacking Israel . |
| 2 | McLaren , the 22-year-old Hearts defender , told me recently that when he made his World Cup debut against Italy ( the game where he was asked to mark Roberto Baggio ) , the fact that he 'd been part of the squad at the European Championship finals , as well as playing a couple of games on the tour of North America last year , were of immeasurable assistance in making the step up . |
| 3 | There was none to be seen in this small guest room , but there 'd been shelves of them lining two walls in the sitting-room overlooking the Thames . |
| 4 | In the past there 'd been cases of children who were witches . |
| 5 | There 'd been incidents of violence between gangland type er warfare between inmates . |
| 6 | Previously he 'd been president of Memorex' international group . |
| 7 | Well Of course came the War and and er like for about twelve years like before the War I 'd been president of the Hosiery Finishers Association . |
| 8 | that 's what I thought , I was n't quite sure , I just wanted I 'd been sort of going through various things , and I want I 'd wanted to make absolutely sure |
| 9 | There 'd been months of preparation and delays because of the weather . |
| 10 | There 'd been photographs of these people 's faces in the newspapers , but Stephen had forgotten what the faces looked like . |
| 11 | I mean , schools the only thing I was , I 'd been governor of a a school for thirty years that was used to depress me with the fact that we could n't get for our schools the things that we needed because to me and to all the people in Harlow who have children are concerned that we are being stopped so much money on education which is the most vital thing in our children 's lives ! |
| 12 | A hundred years ago they might have made sense , due to ignorance : like the child said , there 'd been talk of witches . |
| 13 | On all sides , both in the government service directly and in its associated echelons of closed institutions , corporations , committees , and ‘ quangos ’ , there had been evidence of a loss of national confidence . |
| 14 | had been kind of , or whatever they are Mr F and then on the back it 's got for Peggy 's six foot high and under plant eighteen inches apart for high six foot plus plant two feet apart |
| 15 | The Irish Industry Minister , Des O'Malley , stressed that a key factor in winning the project had been availability of computer scientists . |
| 16 | We had been bottom of the league in the 1960s and 1970s , but our GDP , business investment and manufacturing productivity grew faster during the 1980s than in Germany , France or many other countries . |
| 17 | Ecologists had been warning of the possibility of such a conflagration for some time . |
| 18 | Some 580,000 Estonians took part , exclusively people who had been citizens of the pre-war independent Estonia and their descendants ; most of Estonia 's political parties fielded candidates , some with Popular Front endorsement . |
| 19 | Ahead of the Latvian Supreme Soviet session , the radical nationalist National Independence Movement organized on April 30-May 1 a rival " Congress of Latvia " , elected in privately organized elections in which only people who had been citizens of the pre-war independent Latvia and their descendants were eligible to vote . |
| 20 | Since July 1400 he had been archdeacon of Dorset , absentee but perhaps not without interest . |
| 21 | Not that those centuries had been times of uninterrupted peace . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Neill and Nicholls L.JJ. , both of whom had been members of the court sitting in Ashtiani v. |
| 26 | About a dozen deputies had been members of the outgoing parliament ; the average age of the new members was 45 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Three candidates who had been members of the CNC , Nadjita Ngororo , Doungous Kimto and Bobekreo Tchimne , were also defeated . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | 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 . |