Example sentences of "africa had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further south , the coastal merchants of west Africa had been trading with Europe for several centuries . |
| 2 | Although nationalist ambitions in Africa had been largely assuaged by these demonstrations of British good faith , this was not true of Arab Nationalism in the Middle East , or of Chinese Communism in the Far East . |
| 3 | North Africa had been reconquered from the Vandals in the 530s , but was never to become securely integrated into the Byzantine empire . |
| 4 | Also , John often insisted that the treatment of black people in South Africa had been an important factor in his decision . |
| 5 | Now , like all revolutionaries , its earliest protagonists possessed a certain prophetic fervour and the time when this fervour was at its height coincided with a time when , following independence , aid to Africa had been vastly increased , with the usual mixed motives . |
| 6 | The upheavals in Africa had been only a rehearsal . |
| 7 | Isobel began to feel that her life had been the wrong way round , that Africa had been no training at all , with its comparatively easy , impersonal requirement of Christian love , for these savagely difficult demands for daughterly love . |
| 8 | It was believed that Western military preponderance throughout most of Asia and Africa had been undercut by the balancing effect of the Soviet Union , which made formal American military alignment with Third World states both more hazardous and anachronistic . |
| 9 | Up till then Africa had been her life . |
| 10 | Africa had been a significant part of her life . |
| 11 | The decision was announced by the UK Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd on Feb. 20 at the end of an EC Foreign Ministers meeting in Dublin , in spite of a resolution by other EC Foreign Ministers not to reconsider lifting sanctions until the state of emergency in South Africa had been revoked and all political prisoners released . |
| 12 | Attended by representatives from 179 member states , it was marked by the exclusion from the General Assembly of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( FRY ) — the first time a member state had been removed from its seat , although South Africa had been suspended from the General Assembly in 1974 . |
| 13 | By the early sixth century Italy was in the hands of the Ostrogoths ; France was divided between the Franks , the Burgundians and the Visigoths , who also controlled Spain ; what had been the Roman province of Africa had been transformed into the Vandal kingdom . |