Example sentences of "been chief " in BNC.
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| 1 | French-trained Col. Guei had also been chief of the national fire brigade . |
| 2 | Sanni Abacha had been Chief of Army Staff , in which capacity he was replaced by Maj.-Gen. |
| 3 | Sanni Abacha had been Chief of Army Staff , in which capacity he was replaced by Maj.-Gen. |
| 4 | Augustus Aikhomu , who had been Chief of General Staff until the abolition of the post and his appointment as Vice-President on Aug. 30 [ see p. 37644 ] , was among those retiring from the forces , but he remained a member of the governing Armed Forces Ruling Council ( AFRC ) . |
| 5 | Danov also confirmed allegations that 17 key files on the Markov case had disappeared , and he suggested that these had been destroyed by Gen. Vladimir Todorov , who had been chief of intelligence at the Interior Ministry in 1978 and who in May had fled to Moscow in defiance of an order not to leave Bulgaria . |