Example sentences of "had be a [adj] member " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had a letter about him from the Amalgamated Society of Joiners and Carpenters , of which he had been a prominent member . |
| 2 | As minister for social security , John Moore had been a prominent member of the Thatcher government until 1988 . |
| 3 | Jack Little was Palace 's first choice right-back for some seven seasons , on the resumption of fully competitive football after the end of the 1st World War , but he was well-known to followers of the sport in the wider Croydon area for considerably longer , because he had been a regular member of the Croydon Common side , which won promotion from the 2nd Division of the Southern League in 1913–14 with a remarkable defensive record of only conceding 14 goals in 30 matches . |
| 4 | He played in every position in the Bangor back-line and had been a regular member of the Ulster squad that swept the boards in the inter-provincial championships in the last nine years . |
| 5 | When news was brought to the hotel that the general had , ‘ passed on to that great trout loch in the sky ’ , people were genuinely saddened because the general had been a much-respected member of the community . |
| 6 | An Irish Catholic , raised in New York , he had been a gung-ho member of the OSS during the second world war . |
| 7 | A party colleague , the South Antrim representative Henry Cuchinan , said : ‘ Peter Gallagher had been a valued member of Sinn Fein in Toome for many years . |
| 8 | Meciar had been a leading member of the Public Against violence movement ( PAV or VPN ) at the time of the 1989 revolution , was subsequently Slovak Interior Minister and then held office as Slovak Prime Minister from June 1990 to April 1991 [ see pp. 37543 ; 38161 ] . |
| 9 | Malendoma had been a leading member of the Consultative Group of Democratic Forces ( CFD ) , the opposition alliance which had demanded a sovereign national conference to determine the political future of the country . |
| 10 | The company 's head of production , Walter Mycroft , had been a founding member of the Film Society , but he does n't seem to have had very much interest in nurturing talent . |
| 11 | He had been a founding member of the Socialist Youth Movement , and after fighting in the civil war he had been held in detention in ( French ) camps in Algeria , before moving to the Soviet Union . |
| 12 | Dorothy , in her time , had been an active member of an organisation called the Noise Reduction Society , which had campaigned valiantly and indiscriminately against lawnmowers and jet aircraft . |
| 13 | There was close affinity between the CNAA and the professional associations concerned , principally the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors , of which Smith had been an active member and Chairman of its Education and Membership Committee . |