Example sentences of "had been a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goh Chok Tong , 49 , had been a shipping executive before entering politics . |
| 2 | Von Karajan had been a member of the Nazi party , and saw no reason publicly to mourn musicians who had been persecuted ; Abbado by contrast is a left-winger whose mother was imprisoned by the Nazis for hiding a Jewish child . |
| 3 | Muawad had been a member of the 99-seat Parliament since he was elected to represent his home region in 1957 at age 32 . |
| 4 | Peter Silverlock , whose father had been a Member of Parliament , acquired it in 1367 . |
| 5 | Aunt Louise was the last survivor of the family of which my mother had been a member . |
| 6 | Noel Doherty , a committed loyalist , had been a member of Paisley 's congregation since 1956 . |
| 7 | Sir Keith had been a member of the Heath cabinet throughout the disastrous Tory administration of the early seventies . |
| 8 | SIR JOSEPH BURKE , who has died aged 78 , was Professor of Fine Arts at Melbourne University for more than three decades , before which he had been a member of Attlee 's secretariat at 10 Downing Street . |
| 9 | He had contested parliamentary seats in three General Elections and had been a member of Maidenhead Town Council and chairman of its Library Committee . |
| 10 | From this last question I realised that he thought Leslie had been a member of the Special Operations Executive ( S.O.E. ) , whose agents , trained in Britain and flown or dropped into France , worked in association with local groups , and sent back information to London . |
| 11 | When I explained that my husband had been a member of the British armed forces and was in uniform , the official seemed to lose all interest , which I thought strange , as there had been French and Belgian equivalents of the S.A.S. in 1944 . |
| 12 | He had been a member of the Leaders ' Meeting from its inception . |
| 13 | He had been a member of the Building Committee which , forty or so years before , had planned the Memorial Church . |
| 14 | Wheeler said he had been a member of the force for twelve and a half years and had been on duty on the Docks since last August . |
| 15 | Sir Benjamin Brodie , in an obituary address to the Royal Medicochirurgical Society ( of which Coleman had been a member ) said he though Coleman 's intellect was of a high order , and even gave indications of genius . |
| 16 | Although Blackett had been a member of the MAUD Committee — Britain 's first approach to atomic energy , subsequently dismantled after the realistic appraisal that if anyone could pull-off the atomic bomb it would be the Americans — Blackett 's love affair with the Russians ensured that he played no part in the US wartime atomic bomb project or its post-1945 British successor . |
| 17 | Attlee , who had been a member of the Simon Commission and a non-dissenting contributor to its very gradualistic report , had always been extremely cautious in his statements on colonial issues . |
| 18 | During the Norwegian Campaign of early 1940 he had been a member of 263 Squadron flying Gladiators , and had claimed one victory and a share in another before being wounded . |
| 19 | Andrew Beattie 's ‘ allegations ’ were , first , that he had been a member of a gang which had murdered the teenage boy ind girl at Abbey Meat Packers , Ltd. in the previous February and , second , that he had hijacked vehicles for road blocks during the UWC general strike . |
| 20 | It was no longer that he had been a member of the murder gang , but that he had presided over a meeting of UDA officers in order to plan it . |
| 21 | Scoulding , for example , had been a member of the Amalgamated Society of Watermen , Lightermen , and Bargemen since 1895 , London organiser since 1911 , and district secretary of the Transport Workers Federation since 1912 . |
| 22 | The ITGWU County Cork organizer , Hugh O'Callaghan , who had been a member of the workers ' delegation to the US Ambassador , responded that he was convinced that the project would go ahead , though an inquiry might help to quell current concern . |
| 23 | Launched as a fortnightly in 1957 , this paper had TANU behind it , and its first editor , Mr Bagdelleh , had been a member of TANU 's Central Committee since the party 's foundation in 1954 . |
| 24 | He had been a member of Hendon RFC since he played in the colts team . |
| 25 | Barry had been divorced for twelve years , had been a member of Dateline but then had moved because of work . |
| 26 | Hence his attempt to enlist T. E. Lawrence in a campaign to prevent war with Germany in the 1930s , which ended in Lawrence 's tragic death , and his naive belief that since Adolf Hitler had been a member of the German regiment with whom he had fraternized in 1914 he was basically a man like Williamson who wished to maintain peace at all costs , unless forced into war by the manipulation of others . |
| 27 | Although he had been a member of both the US House of Representatives and the US Senate he had never been a true man of Congress . |
| 28 | His successor displayed no great competence for the job even though he had been a member of the House for twenty-four years and had successfully met the demands of peer review to achieve major leadership posts in the legislature . |
| 29 | The Minister of State at the Home Office , Alice Bacon , who sat on the Labour Party 's National Executive , had been a member , while two others , Mrs Serota and Dr T.C.N. Gibbens , were included amongst the membership of the Royal Commission . |
| 30 | In 1936 he had been a member of the Archbishop 's committee preparing for a conference to be held at Oxford on Church , Community and State . |