Example sentences of "had [been] leader " in BNC.
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| 1 | While in the 1930s the CEB men had been leaders in advocating larger-scale power generation , with the undertakings sometimes dragging their feet , by the time of nationalisation they pinned their faith more on the benefits of standardising on 30MW and 60MW sets as a means of both cutting costs and overcoming the capacity shortage ( see pp. 24–5 , above ) . |
| 2 | Both had been leaders of the Conservative Party . |
| 3 | A Gallup survey for The Daily Telegraph suggests that if he had been leader , the party would have had greater success last Thursday . |
| 4 | He deserted the safe cloisters of that college in order to teach for the Workers ' Educational Association : he had been leader of the Labour group on Oxford City Council since 1934 . |
| 5 | Lansdowne came first because he had been leader in the House of Lords since 1902 ; he was too old to be a rival to Law and he cooperated with him fully , though not without some condescension . |
| 6 | Parliament passed legislation for constitutional change to allow the appointment of two Vice-Presidents , and on Aug. 6 Joshua Nkomo , who had been leader of the opposition ZAPU party until its merger with ZANU in April 1988 [ see pp. 35626 ; 36415 ] ] , was appointed as a Vice-President alongside Muzenda . |
| 7 | Mermaz , who had been president of the National Assembly from 1981 to 1986 and was briefly Minister of Transport in 1988 , had been leader of the Socialist group in the Assembly since 1988 . |
| 8 | Aylwin had been leader of the Christian Democratic Party in 1973 , when it had joined in calling on the military to intervene , but he now acknowledged that all political forces which had preferred confrontation to dialogue at that time , were responsible for creating the conditions in which human rights violations eventually took place . |
| 9 | Peterle ( born in 1948 ) had been leader of the Christian Democrats since autumn 1989 , and as the leader of the largest coalition party , had been appointed Prime Minister after the elections . |
| 10 | Niyazov had been leader of the republican Communist Party until it was dissolved at its 25th Congress on Dec. 16 , 1991 , and then became leader of the ruling Democratic Party of Turkmenistan . |