Example sentences of "[verb] [been] members " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , in their capacity as workers in those factories they were not Co-operators at all , though they may very well have been members of consumers , co-operative societies owning an interest in those factories . |
| 2 | Both Edmunds may also have been members of the Spectaclemakers ' Company . |
| 3 | Members of the Soviet government ( the Council of Ministers ) were essentially administrative heads of ministries , but at the same time they were party members , and a few of them may even have been members of the Politburo . |
| 4 | They could have been members of the House of Atreus . |
| 5 | The authorities ' heavy-handed intervention showed just how sensitive they were to the question of the empire 's internal diversity , for the Brotherhood 's goals were in fact much less radical than St Petersburg supposed and Shevchenko and Kulish may not even have been members . |
| 6 | In the event , permission was given for Paisley and Beattie to go forward because they had been members of the Stormont Parliament before it had been suspended . |
| 7 | The show was worthy of the Cambridge Footlights , and I have no doubt that some of the participants had been members of that renowned dramatic society . |
| 8 | It has been estimated that 60 per cent of the fascist elite had been members of the armed forces and over 40 per cent saw active service in the first World War . |
| 9 | Neill and Nicholls L.JJ. , both of whom had been members of the court sitting in Ashtiani v. |
| 10 | His best friend , Simon , was one of six children and all had been members in their turn . |
| 11 | About a dozen deputies had been members of the outgoing parliament ; the average age of the new members was 45 . |
| 12 | The four , who had been members of the late President Sukarno 's palace guard , were shot by firing squad in Jakarta , despite widespread pleas for clemency from the international community . |
| 13 | Three candidates who had been members of the CNC , Nadjita Ngororo , Doungous Kimto and Bobekreo Tchimne , were also defeated . |
| 14 | The government on July 18 took direct control of the State Property Agency ( SPA ) , whose officials had been members of the former communist government , and a week later announced that the head of the SPA , Istvan Tompe , would be replaced by Lajos Crepi ( former vice-president of the old post office ) . |
| 15 | The arrest of three police officers and two military captains who had been members of the elite UESAT unit of the Panamanian Defence Forces commanded by the former dictator Gen. Manuel Noriega , led to suggestions that a serious coup attempt had been intended , and that it had enjoyed wide support from the police . |
| 16 | Both had been members of the party secretariat . |
| 17 | According to the Information Minister , Mohamed Ahmed Ould Lamine , the majority of those involved had been members of the army and navy and had admitted that they had " received orders from Senegal " . |
| 18 | All three had been members of the Khmer Rouge administration in the eastern section of Cambodia who had taken up arms against the Pol Pot regime in 1978 . |
| 19 | HCS member Ali Haroun said in Brussels on Feb. 26 that half of a total of 50 people killed had been members of the army and gendamerie . |
| 20 | Of those killed , 31 had been members of the police or army . |
| 21 | Ukraine and Byelarus had been members since 1945 , the three Baltic states joined in September 1991 [ see p. 38458 ] , Russia assumed the Soviet Union 's seat in December [ see p. 38744 ] , and the eight joining on March 2 were Armenia , Azerbaijan , Kazakhstan , Kirgizstan , Moldova , Tajikistan , Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan . |
| 22 | These men supplied many of the first generation of Russian permanent representatives in western Europe : of the twelve of these accredited in the first decade of the eighteenth century five had been members of the group of students sent to Venice in 1697 . |
| 23 | ‘ The club gave us a presentation because they looked into their records and found we had been members the longest , ’ said Mrs Williams . |
| 24 | Ten have been members of the Orange Order but nine have resigned . |
| 25 | Three have been members of the Independent Orange Order and one has resigned . |
| 26 | Some of the most renowned Italian artists and aristocrats , including Alessandro Manzoni and Stendhal , Count Cavour and Vittorio Emanuele II , have been members . |
| 27 | But most have been members of that lonely fraternity of misfits called goalkeepers . |
| 28 | MOTORISTS who have been members of the RAC for 50 years or more are to receive special awards . |
| 29 | The hardest task of all may be that of people choosing to live alone who are either disabled or who have been members of an institution . |
| 30 | The Meikle family consists of David and Catherine , Robert ( 12 ) , Shona ( 7 ) and Johann ( 3 ) and they have been members of Kirkintilloch Baptist Church for four years . |