Example sentences of "members [vb past] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was afraid of being sent back to Ethiopia , where close family members had been imprisoned and tortured . |
| 2 | The deputy commander of the first artillery battalion reported that all its cell members had been so busily engaged on operations amongst the civilian population that there had been no meeting for over a month ( they were probably occupied in some of the unsavoury tasks noted earlier by our peasant soldier and his mother ) . |
| 3 | The new class was mobile , following where the opportunities of trade or profession might lead , and leaving behind the communities in which its older members had been rooted . |
| 4 | Much of the training done by the family members had been linked to machinery as the sons carried out this work on the farm . |
| 5 | The meeting also elected a further eight members , four ladies and four men , the first time any members had been proposed and seconded . |
| 6 | One of the three members had been unable to attend the meeting at which these appeals were heard and a decision made on all the appeals . |
| 7 | The Committee drew attention to the fact that during the experiment fewer Members had been formally penalised for bad behaviour than in several recent sessions , and reported that neither the Speaker nor the Community had any evidence that rowdiness had significantly increased ; on the possible long-term effect , early evidence was ‘ mildly encouraging ’ . |
| 8 | This was a bit of a bombshell , but after determined encouragement from the chaplain the party managed to sing several verses of ‘ The Church 's One Foundation ’ , and were , in fact , rather pleased with themselves as several members had been able to put in the tenor and the bass . |
| 9 | Besides , TANU members had been involved in the press , while they had not been involved in radio . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , such a post had its drawbacks : the prince could detain his musicians at will , and , on one occasion , Haydn was obliged to drop his patron a heavy hint — in the form of the ‘ Farewell ’ Symphony — that the court orchestra members had been kept away from their families in Vienna for too long . |
| 11 | Our club members had been knitting cushions for charity and at the beginning of question time Georgie asked if she could tell the story of her cushion . |
| 12 | The letter states that the International Red Cross had reported that the aircraft had crashed at 0030 hours on September 18 , 1940 at Tourlaville , and that unhappily all four crew members had been killed . |
| 13 | After one visit to a juvenile court where some gang members had been committed to Approved School after ‘ carrying out depredations against shopkeepers over quite a wide area ’ , Dr Bryan ‘ could not help feeling a little depressed at the thought of so much high spirit , imagination , ingenuity and daring shut up behind high walls ’ . |
| 14 | Many members had been killed or forced to flee into the cities and many more had joined the FMLN . |
| 15 | Training programmes for both chairmen and members had been introduced . |
| 16 | Previously the bulk of members had been recruited from the upper ranks of the middle classes . |
| 17 | Its principal members had been five of the most autonomous members of the Contact group . |
| 18 | Presumably this principle would apply to trade unions taking action in the same dispute where their fellow members had been injuncted . |
| 19 | Prior to this meeting , which lasted 8 hours , members had been sent a draft constitution , the handiwork of Charles Gorham , who had consulted and taken the advice of his solicitor , Mr R S Wigin of Leeds . |
| 20 | Only twenty-seven new members had been enrolled since the Leeds Congress , and the total membership still stood at less than one hundred . |
| 21 | It was known , for instance , that ‘ many thousands ’ of party and non-party members had been subjected to mass repression during the Stalin period ; this was the truth of the matter , and there was no escaping it . |
| 22 | However , if hon. Members had been given more time to study these complicated regulations , more of them might have realised how adversely they affect some of their constituents and would have made it their business to be here . |
| 23 | On Jan. 21 the MPRP politburo announced that the number of " special provisions " for leading party members had been reduced . |
| 24 | [ For 1985 elections , when non-party members had been included in the single list of party-approved candidates , see p. 34216 . ] |
| 25 | The Mexico-based Human Rights Committee of Guatemala ( CGDH ) also said that its members had been threatened with death for participating in a " national dialogue " involving members of the exiled opposition , held in March 1988 [ see pp. 36927-28 ] . |
| 26 | On Nov. 23 the party announced that 12,500 of its 48,000,000 members had been expelled in 1989 , largely for corruption . |
| 27 | The document also alleged that Montazeri had been involved in a gang whose members had been executed in Iran in 1987 after smuggling explosives to Saudi Arabia during the pilgrimage to Mecca the previous year [ see pp. 35541-42 ; 35677 ] . |
| 28 | On March 27 , 1990 , the human rights organization Amnesty International cited strong evidence that MTP members had been tortured , illegally executed and had disappeared while in military custody . |
| 29 | President Hissène Habré had decided that his ruling National Union for Independence and Revolution ( UNIR ) party would not run a formal campaign , and the 436 candidates for the 123 elective seats in the new National Assembly ( which replaced the National Consultative Council — CNC — whose 30 members had been appointed ) ran as individuals . |
| 30 | The International Herald Tribune of Aug. 15 reported that up to 100 PPP members had been detained , some without charges . |