Example sentences of "had [be] [adj] secretary " in BNC.
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| 1 | His father , also named Rudolf Slansky , had been general secretary of the CPCz and had been executed in 1952 after a show trial at which he was accused of being an agent of imperialism . |
| 2 | Her last post had been General Secretary to the Association of Headmistresses . |
| 3 | At times , it looks like little more than nepotism : The Prince of Wales ' last private secretary , Edward Adeane had been a page-of-honour to the Queen in his teens ; his father , Lord Adeane , had been the Queen 's private secretary for nearly twenty years , and his great-grandfather , Lord Stamfordham had been private secretary to George V. George VI 's private secretary , Sir Alan Lascelles , was a cousin of the sixth Lord Harewood , husband of Princess Mary . |
| 4 | The secretary of the Commission was Geoffrey Cockerill , who had been Private Secretary to Boyle and , for a short while , Crosland . |
| 5 | He had been Private Secretary to my uncle when he was Viceroy , and later Chief Commissioner of the North-West Frontier of India before he went to the Sudan . |
| 6 | Patrick had been Chief Secretary to the Treasury in Ted Heath 's Government and had been successful as Secretary of State for both Social Services and Trade and Industry . |
| 7 | Two appointments were made : Molly Sheavyn , who became Further Education and Youth Officer " , and Mark Frame , by then the Rev Mark Frame , who had been Honorary Secretary since 1951 . |
| 8 | Because in my last five years before [ becoming Prime Minister ] I had been Foreign Secretary [ and ] , therefore , away a lot . |
| 9 | Even after Ceauşescu 's death , Lord Callaghan , who had been Foreign Secretary in 1975 , recalled generously that Ceauşescu was ‘ always a rogue elephant in the Warsaw Pact ’ and had ‘ helped us ’ in drafting the Helsinki accords and as a go-between with Moscow . |
| 10 | The Prime Minister told the Head of the Civil Service ( who was still nominally in charge of the Cabinet Office , too , to avoid a conflict of status between Brook and General Sir Hastings Ismay , who had been Military Secretary to the Cabinet throughout the war and did not leave Whitehall till 1947 ) what he wanted as the ingredients of reform : |
| 11 | The rest included such experienced practitioners as Dr A H Marshall , a former treasurer of the city of Coventry , and T Dan Smith , a former leader of the city council of Newcastle upon Tyne — as well as Dame Evelyn ( Baroness from 1966 ) Sharp who had been Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Housing and Local Government when Crossman arrived in 1964 ( Wood 1976:40 — 1 ) . |