Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [been] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ceauşescu had been part of the leadership under Dej which took the decision to press ahead with devoting enormous resources to industrializing Romania against Khruschev 's wishes . |
| 2 | Engstrom had been Deputy Finance Minister until 11 days previously when he became interim Finance Minister on Kjell-Olof Feldt 's resignation from the caretaker government . |
| 3 | All were CPSU members and Yazov , Yanayev and Kryuchkov had been politburo members , though after the reorganization of the party in July 1990 [ see p. 37614-17 ] , following the March abolition of its constitutional monopoly on power [ see p. 37299 ] , government ministers could no longer be on the party 's ruling bodies . |
| 4 | Pinto had been Professor of English at Nottingham since 1938 and oversaw the university 's transition to the autonomous degree-giving status which was achieved ten years later . |
| 5 | A member of the Socialist Unity Party ( PSU , until October 1990 the Socialist Party ( PSI ) — see p. 37786 ) , Vassalli had been Justice Minister since July 1987 [ see p. 35589 ] . |
| 6 | Mr Heddle had been MP for Mid Staffordshire since 1983 , with a majority of 14,654 in 1987 . |
| 7 | Prosecuting counsel Antonis Georges said Gavin had been treasurer of the Welfare Scheme since 1985 . |
| 8 | Prosecuting counsel Antonis Georges said Gavin had been treasurer of the Welfare Scheme since 1985 . |
| 9 | BRAZIL HAD BEEN PARADISE . |
| 10 | Fergus had been waist deep and sinking fast . |
| 11 | Karl Barth had been pastor in Safenwil since 1911 . |
| 12 | Tork had been Station Officer in Tel Aviv for eleven years . |
| 13 | Lord Rathcreedan , who as Captain Cecil Norton had been Club Captain since 1914 , continued until 1921 , continued until 1921 and Mr. J.C . |
| 14 | Yes , and Shelley Cameron had been fool enough to do some of that idolising ! |
| 15 | Worrell had been vice-captain against England in 1953–4 , but when Australia toured a year later the selectors ' feet , apparently , had turned cold ; Denis Atkinson , who had little captaincy experience , was made Stollmeyer 's deputy , and as Stollmeyer then missed three Tests through injury , found himself pitched in at the deep end . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But the reaction might have been different if Philip the Fair , rather than St Louis had been king of France at that time . |
| 18 | Rodolfo Díaz was hitherto under-secretary of labour ; and Avelino Porto had been rector of the Belgrano University . |
| 19 | William Jackson had been production manager with one of the largest carpet manufacturing firms in the area , with a worldwide reputation for quality carpets . |
| 20 | Chu Okongwu had been Minister of Finance until January 1990 and then Minister of Cabinet Affairs . |
| 21 | Chu Okongwu had been Minister of Finance until January 1990 and then Minister of Cabinet Affairs . |
| 22 | Sanni Abacha had been Chief of Army Staff , in which capacity he was replaced by Maj.-Gen. |
| 23 | Sanni Abacha had been Chief of Army Staff , in which capacity he was replaced by Maj.-Gen. |
| 24 | The group claimed the trial was directly related to corruption cases raised in the House ; before his arrest , Shbeilat had been head of a House committee on corruption . |
| 25 | Perhaps even when Liawski had been warden , but that was n't something that Reynolds could expect to remember . |
| 26 | Debate on 16 November was enlivened by a passionate defence of the schema from the Bishop of Faenza who attacked the Jesuit-run Biblical Institute , of which Bea had been rector . |
| 27 | He 'd been born there and the Burnses had been part of the village for generations . |
| 28 | A Moslem from West Nile province , Ali had been Finance Minister in the Idi Amin regime but went into exile before Amin 's overthrow , joining the Museveni government as Tourism and Wildlife Minister in 1986 . |
| 29 | By the time that Israel became part of the Roman empire , the idea was already widespread among the various religious sects that the ‘ End of the World ’ was at hand , although it was only for the Essenes of Qumran that this belief assumed a definite form ; that , whereas the First Judgement at the time of Noah had been destruction by water , the Last Judgement would be destruction by fire . |
| 30 | De Benedetti had been vice-president and a major shareholder of the Banco Ambrosiano from November 1981 to January 1982 , before ceding control to Roberto Calvi , who was found hanged in London in April 1982 [ see p. 32083 ] . |