Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [been] appointed in [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Oct. 22 President Elias Hrawi invited Rafiq al-Hariri to form a new government ; this was formally appointed on Oct. 31 , replacing that of Rashid al-Solh , which had been appointed in May 1992 [ see pp. 38932-33 ] . |
| 2 | The post of Minister for State Participation remained vacant , following the death on Dec. 27 , 1990 , of Franco Piga , who had been appointed in July of that year . |
| 3 | On May 3 , 1990 , Gen. Peter Koch , who had been appointed in December 1989 to oversee the Stasi 's dissolution , committed suicide . |
| 4 | Gen. Vieira , who had previously served as a minister for the Azores Islands , replaced the interim Governor , Franciso Murteira Nabo , who had been appointed in September 1990 following the resignation of Carlos Melancia over corruption allegations [ see p. 37714 ] . |
| 5 | On July 6 Judge Richard Goldstone , who had been appointed in September 1991 to head an official commission of inquiry into township violence , rebuked the government for ignoring its recommendations and thus jeopardizing efforts to halt political violence . |
| 6 | The armed forces Chief of Staff , Gen. Robert Guëi , who had been appointed in May 1990 with a mandate to eradicate indiscipline in the army , was quoted as saying that 20 men , the most senior a sergeant , had been caught red-handed . |
| 7 | His appointment was the success story of this period , and even when the Goldsmiths eventually washed their hands of the School , they continued to help him with gifts to the Church to which he had been appointed in Portwood . |
| 8 | In other ministerial changes announced on the same day by President Daniel Arap Moi , ( i ) John Okwanyo was appointed to the Water Development portfolio ; ( ii ) Matthews Onyango Midika replaced Okwanyo as Minister for Regional Development ; and ( iii ) John Kyalo was appointed as a Minister in the Office of the President , replacing Johnstone Muendo Makau who had been relieved of this post ( to which he had been appointed in May 1989 — see p. 36648 ) on March 2 [ for full Cabinet list as of September 1989 see p. 36917 ] . |
| 9 | In late December Alberto Jorge Triaca , a former Labour Minister dropped from the Cabinet in a reshuffle in January 1991 [ see p. 37959 ] , was dismissed by Menem as the head of SOMISA , the country 's largest steel mill , a post to which he had been appointed in May 1991 . |