Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [noun] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were the highest offices Arabs had held in the Israeli government since 1973 , when Abdel-Aziz Zoabi had been Deputy Minister of Health . |
| 2 | When , in March 1950 the State Department , under strong Congressional urging , had sent its aid survey mission to Southeast Asia it was headed by Mr R. Allen Griffin , a Californian newspaper publisher and editor , who had been deputy chief of the US Aid Mission to China . |
| 3 | The New Minister of finance , Sigbjoern Johnsen , had been deputy leader of the parliamentary finance committee since 1986 . |
| 4 | When in November 1990 Sir George Blunden , who had been Deputy Governor of the Bank of England , was appointed chairman of The Money Advice Trust ( created in January of that year ) , the aim was to raise £6 million for the purpose . |
| 5 | The Paris appeals court ruled on April 13 that Paul Touvier , 77 , who under the wartime Vichy regime had been intelligence chief of the Milice ( pro-Nazi French militia ) in Lyon in 1943-44 , should not stand trial , on grounds of insufficient evidence , on five charges of crimes against humanity . |
| 6 | Although Clive & Stokes took on one partner from Barker , Peter Bingham ( who had been personnel Director of Bowater ) , the strategy was not successful and in 1986 the connection with Barker was severed . |
| 7 | There had been women writers of the Restoration whose reputations were unassailable , notably Katherine Phillips , but to publish was indeed a risk . |
| 8 | The new Defence Minister , understood to be a strong supporter of Saddam Hussein 's stance on Kuwait , had been Inspector General of the armed forces and previously a deputy Chief of Staff , and had been decorated for his service in commanding the First Army Special Corps during the Iran-Iraq war . |
| 9 | Rabin had been army Chief of Staff during the 1967 war , and Prime Minister from 1973 until 1977 , when in April he resigned as the Labour Party 's election candidate for the premiership and the Labour Party lost the ensuing general election [ see pp. 28533-38 ] . |
| 10 | An uncle had been Lord Mayor of York . |
| 11 | He had been Form Master of 3A , and they wept at the announcement in Assembly next morning . |
| 12 | She had been Form Mistress of Junior C from 1950 to 1962 and taught with patience , sympathy , and understanding , introducing many boys not only to drama ( as was to be expected ) but also to cricket and football . |
| 13 | At about the time of the settlement of the Visigoths in Aquitaine there had been unrest north of the Loire , which had been suppressed . |