Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] been [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The office of controller of the coinage of tin , previously held by Sir Thomas Vaughan , passed to another of Edward IV 's household men , Avery Cornburgh , who had been feodary of the duchy and occupier of the mines in Devon and Cornwall . |
| 2 | The office of controller of the coinage of tin , previously held by Sir Thomas Vaughan , passed to another of Edward IV 's household men , Avery Cornburgh , who had been feodary of the duchy and occupier of the mines in Devon and Cornwall . |
| 3 | David Checketts was his first private secretary , a former squadron leader in the RAF who had been equerry to the Duke of Edinburgh , and was the perfect person to help the Prince make the transition from the armed services into a full-time working member of the ‘ family firm ’ . |
| 4 | He takes over from Harry Mogford FHCIMA , who had been chairman since the formation of the committee five years ago . |
| 5 | There are a handful of representatives of well-known political families , like Nicholas Soames and the present Winston of the Churchills , the Douglases Hogg and Hurd , who are both the sons and grandsons of MPs , while the father of Sir Charles and Peter Morrison ( ‘ Pinky and Perky ’ ) was Lord Margadale , who had been chairman of the backbench 1922 Committee in the fifties and sixties . |
| 6 | Initially they were Josiah ( ‘ Jack ’ ) Eccles , formerly head of the Liverpool Corporation electricity undertaking ; Alderman Lewis , a trade unionist and local Labour politician from the Midlands ; John Pickles , ex-county electrical engineer of Dumfries and an expert in rural electrification ; and Harry Randall , who had been chairman of the London Supply Companies Association . |
| 7 | This was true of Lyfing of Crediton , who had been abbot of Tavistock ; of Æthelric and Eadnoth II of Dorchester , both Ramsey monks ; of Edmund of Durham ; of Brihtwig of Wells , abbot of Glastonbury ; and of Brihtheah of Worcester , abbot of Pershore . |
| 8 | In 1619 Sir Thomas Smith , who had been treasurer of the Company since 1609 , was pushed into retirement and the new directors led by Sir Edwin Sandys brought about two important changes . |
| 9 | for example , long after Bede , in his Boke of Nurture John Russell , who had been Marshal of the household of the great patron of learning , the youngest son of Henry IV , Duke Humphrey of Gloucester ( 1391–1447 ) , described how the four courses of an elaborate fish-dinner that he had prepared for his master and guests was accompanied by appropriate ‘ subtleties ’ , or ornamental devices . |
| 10 | On Oct. 15 , 1989 , a controversial retrial of 15 Islamic extremists ( who had been associates of Bouiali-see above ) was abandoned after the defence had successfully argued that a regional court was not competent to try their case following the Supreme Court 's refusal to do so . |
| 11 | Jotan 's wife Arkhina was reclining on cushions in a nearby alcove , and her mother , a daughter of Arjun the Great , was engaged in conversation with the widow of her cousin , who had been parent to Nogai . |
| 12 | Within three months , the epidemic strain was cultured from 3 other patients ( M30 , M32 , and M34 ) who had been inpatients over the Christmas period , and had had close contact with patients M8 and M10 . |
| 13 | Beyond France , General Charles de Gaulle , who had been Under-Secretary of Defence in 1940 , formed the ‘ Free French ’ movement , based first in London and then ( after 1943 ) Algiers , and claimed to be the ‘ true ’ representative of the French nation . |
| 14 | George Blake , the MI6 officer who had been secretary of the committee that had planned Operation Gold in 1953 had joined MI6 shortly after the war . |
| 15 | U Aung San was succeeded by an intimate and trusted colleague , Thakin Nu , who had been Secretary of the AFPFL . |
| 16 | Casaroli , 76 , who had been Secretary of State since 1979 [ see p. 29852 ] , was widely regarded as the architect of the Vatican 's " Ostpolitik " , stressing closer ties with eastern Europe and the creation of diplomatic links with the Soviet Union [ see pp. 36830 ; 37129 ; 37258 ; 37394 ; 37899 ] . |
| 17 | Alessandro Natta , who had been secretary of the PCI from June 1984 to June 1988 ( when he had been succeeded by Achille Occhetto — see p. 35989 ) , announced his retirement from active political life in May 1990 . |
| 18 | Another book on Burma , published in 1945 , was The Burma We Love , by U Kyaw Min , ICS , who had been secretary to three Premiers of Burma in turn , Dr Ba Maw , U Pu and U Saw , before the evacuation . |
| 19 | Brian Whitaker , who had been editor of the Insight team , and had remained alone in the old Grays Inn Road Sunday Times building finishing a book on the sinking of Greenpeace 's Rainbow Warrior , brought along his production skills . |
| 20 | The commercial department of the Central Authority was staffed at the top by three ex-CEB men who had been experts in the complex bulk tariff rules laid down in 1926 to secure equity between independent undertakings : a job which no longer existed . |
| 21 | The second Duke 's eldest son , Sir Walter Stewart , who had been Keeper of Dumbarton castle , was imprisoned on the bleak Bass Rock , and others were summarily tried and executed for treason and conspiracy . |
| 22 | On the outbreak of war , Prime Minister Asquith formed a coalition government and Herbert Horatio Kitchener — who had been Commander-in-Chief during the Boer wars — was appointed Secretary of State for War . |
| 23 | After we had been at school for about three years Arnold Hodson , who had been Consul in Southern Abyssinia , was staying with us at the beginning of the holidays . |
| 24 | Abberley , who had been head of the School 's maintenance and ground staff since 1944 . |
| 25 | During the 1950s Adenauer had favoured such individuals as Hans Glöbke ( who had been head of the Chancellor 's office ) and Theodor Oberländer ( a Cabinet minister ) despite their close involvement in shaping Nazi policies . |
| 26 | Mba , hitherto governor of the regional bank , the Banque des états de l'Afrique centrale ( BEAC ) , replaced Léon Mebiame who had been head of government since 1981 . |
| 27 | US President Bush ( who had been head of the then US liaison mission in Beijing in 1974-75 ) , appeared to want to restore relations as they had been before the Tiananmen Square massacre , but often came under congressional pressure to adopt a policy more critical of China . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Three candidates who had been members of the CNC , Nadjita Ngororo , Doungous Kimto and Bobekreo Tchimne , were also defeated . |
| 30 | 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 . |