Example sentences of "have been [prep] those " in BNC.

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1 In broad terms , the division has been between those who see an accumulation of reforms and a gradual erosion of bourgeois dominance as leading to a situation in which a relatively easy and peaceful transition to a socialist society will be achieved ; and those who regard reforms largely as mere palliatives , value the struggle for reforms mainly for its effect in developing working-class consciousness and organization , and envisage the achievement of socialism as a more abrupt event ensuing from a more or less violent final confrontation between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat .
2 His over-riding concern has been for those who are lost ; he has been an evangelist , a travelling missionary , taking the gospel to places where no Christian had ever gone before .
3 How glad I 'd been in those first nights with him .
4 There is a display also of various types of mountain refuge or cabin , from which you can judge how extremely uncomfortable it must have been for those invited by Count Russell to share his quarters on his favourite mountain of Vignemale , for the so-called ‘ Russell ’ is quite the most Spartan of shelters , little more than a hollow scooped out under an overhanging rock .
5 It might well be that upon their selection the Roman Catholics were appraised of the atmosphere in England and advised not to be too obvious in their worship , galling though that would have been to those proud and independent men .
6 This scheme evokes strong doubts from some area officers and bureaux managers who may not have been among those who carried the vote to accept the plans .
7 These herbs would have been among those grown for medicinal purposes by the monks in days gone by and they may well have been planted by ponds stocked with carp in the grounds of the monastery .
8 Stallholder Pete would have been among those killed and Wicksy would have been paralysed .
9 HAVING been among those fortunate enough to be in Australia for the World Cup — and most enjoyable it was — there was one aspect of the television coverage which was extremely irritating .
10 Robin Smith kept wicket for the five overs remaining , Stewart having been among those hit painfully on the ankle or foot while batting .
11 Along with Santa Cruz Operation Inc and IXI Ltd , Unix System Laboratories is said to have been amongst those approached by a gang of users and integrators known as Galileo , who are trying to get the industry working on a common graphical user interface end environment that behaves the same way regardless of which operating system and hardware lies underneath ( UX No 415 ) .
12 Marc Bazin , the leader of the MIDH , who was a liberal economist and former Finance Minister and World Bank official , and who was considered by most observers to be the most likely candidate to win fair and free presidential elections , was not believed to have been amongst those detained .
13 She was to have been among those entrusted with the secret of the girls ' switched identities .
14 The next day , Beaverbrook ( who , with Amery , had been among those who had helped bring down the Lloyd George coalition in 1922 ) ‘ strongly urged ’ Amery ‘ to work closely with Hailsham both to keep the positive campaign going and decide when the critical moment should come for putting an end to the Coalition ’ .
15 Years before , when Valery Giscard d'Estaing was minister if finance , he had been among those to call on the Shah at the Villa Suvretta in St Moritz .
16 It would not have been so light a thing to her if Hotspur had been among those dour-faced lordlings clattering through the streets of Shrewsbury with their shame .
17 The French government on Aug. 19 ordered its naval commanders to apply sanctions " with firmness " ; France , however , had been among those Security Council members reportedly expressing concern on Aug. 13 over the prospect of individual members , rather than the Security Council , deciding to move to enforce a blockade .
18 Gen. Marin Neagoe , a former divisional chief of the Securitate security forces , was imprisoned for seven years on May 29 for his role in suppressing the riots ; on May 10 the former Securitate chief Julian Vlad had been among those sentenced to prison terms of up to five years [ see p. 38207 ] .
19 Deputy chairs Boris Isayev and Svetlana Goryacheva , who had been among those seeking Yeltsin 's resignation in April 1991 [ see p. 38130 ] , had resigned their posts on Oct. 24 .
20 The panel noted " direct and circumstantial evidence " that Gen. Juan Rafael Bustillo , then Commander of the Air Force ( now military attaché in Israel ) , Gen. René Emilio Ponce , then the Army Chief of Staff ( currently Defence and Public Security Minister ) , and Gen. Juan Orlando Zepeda , currently the Deputy Defence Minister , had been among those who had planned an attack the day before at the Salvadorean military academy .
21 Was she praying for resurrection , asking the mysterious , invisible Maker of All Things to hasten the day when she and her dearly loved man would be united again as they had been in those golden days long past ?
22 She wondered again what her grandfather 's thoughts and feelings had been in those few days at Dudley House .
23 And having arrived at so much in the way of a comparison , she saw , suddenly revealed to her , how much there had been in those other rooms to admire .
24 But Benedict 's eyes were on her , as compelling a question in them as had been in those of his godmother .
25 Saying you 've been to those destinations in the U K does n't actually hold the same appeal or esteem .
26 When you 've been around those guys a lot , you notice that they 're performers and that they perform for you .
27 I have been at those dinners where the merits of our contemporaries are discussed , and where Du Camp , as each new name was suggested , would with infinite urbanity correct the general view .
28 It 's that sort of change that I think is extremely significant , and I think it happens for women very much at that stage , when they have been through those sorts of experiences themselves , so one way in which I think that we can change things is — and help people to change things for themselves — is very much to support and develop those kinds of second change erm access , returning to education , returning to work , type projects as very much part of mainstream education and employment , and I would like to see a much greater range of those sorts of projects available for people and erm a lot more government resources into supporting that kind of provision .
29 The enquiries have been from those in government , both central and local , researchers as well as students , and schoolchildren .
30 But some of the most fruitful findings at ancient sites have been by those such as the researchers on the Dragon Project discussed later in this chapter , trained in disciplines other than archaeology .
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