Example sentences of "he was [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He was Minister for Education in the late Government , ’ I continue . |
| 2 | We have a good accident record in this country and that is due in no small way to the special interest given to the subject by my hon. Friend the Member for Eltham ( Mr. Bottomley ) when he was Minister for Roads and Traffic and to the actions of the present Minister . |
| 3 | In 1984-86 he was Minister for the Economy , Finance and Budget , a post he resumed when the PS returned to government in 1988 . |
| 4 | He was the founder in 1864 of the Liverpool Adult Deaf and Dumb Benevolent Society and , with the aid of public subscriptions , responsible for the building of the Liverpool Institute for the Adult Deaf and Dumb , of which he was Secretary for sixty years . |
| 5 | Incidentally , he was n't known as Chief Education Officer , he was Secretary for Education , he only became Chief Education Officer after the war but erm he was the Controller of Shift E and most of the education staff were on Shift E. |
| 6 | A long-serving member of the Cabinet , he had been appointed to President Robert Mugabe 's first independence government as Minister of Transport and Power in March 1980 , and was also a member of the ruling party 's political bureau , where he was Secretary for Youth . |
| 7 | If Scott had been selected because he was second for both the War Office and the Foreign Office , now that the War Office is no longer required , then surely his claim is now reduced . |
| 8 | This he did by hard work , love for cricket and an exceptional organizing ability , which in 1953 resulted in the founding of the Danish Cricket Association of which he was chairman for 18 years . |
| 9 | In 1454 he was alnager for Northamptonshire and Rutland , charged with examining the measurement and quality of woollen goods in those counties . |
| 10 | He was MP for Leicester South in 1983 , majority seven , lost his seat in 1987 and was returned as MP for Brighton Pavilion last Thursday . |
| 11 | For 1865 only , he was MP for Stoke on Trent , which was near another Beresford estate , and in 1868 fulfilled his ambition to be University Member for Cambridge . |
| 12 | He was MP for Oldham from 1865 until his death , a radical and a staunch advocate of free trade . |
| 13 | He was MP for that town in eleven Parliaments from 1679 to 1708 , and once for Ashburton in 1689 . |
| 14 | From 1906 to 1910 he was MP for Sutherland . |
| 15 | From 1673 to 1677 he was MP for Newark , but he did not sit . |
| 16 | He was MP for Downton from 1831 to 1832 , but the borough was destined for abolition in the Reform Act of 1832 . |
| 17 | In religion a Quaker , in politics a Liberal , he was MP for Penryn ( later Falmouth ) from 1857 to 1865 and gave general but independent support to the third Viscount Palmerston , while favouring the extension of free trade and acquiring a reputation as a respecter of the rights of all religious denominations . |
| 18 | Despite his earlier links with the parliamentary cause ( he was MP for Maidstone 1654–9 ) he pursued a moderate royalist line at the Restoration and in 1662 was made a baronet . |
| 19 | He was MP for Truro ( 1741–7 ) and receiver-general in Minorca ( 1743–57 ) . |
| 20 | As Jo Grimond he was MP for Orkney and Shetland for thirty-three years and was seen as the last traditional Liberal . |
| 21 | He was MP for Cirencester and Tewkesbury for 33 years , holding posts in the Foreign Office , Treasury and Department of Trade , Transport and Environment . |
| 22 | He was MP for Glasgow Central for nine years . |
| 23 | He was JP for West Sussex from 1640 until his death , and was elected MP for Midhurst in a by-election to the Long Parliament in 1645 , his fellow-MP being William Cawley the regicide [ q.v . ] . |
| 24 | Guests included a large gathering of colleagues , both present and past , and representative of Jim 's earlier days in the Chief Accountant 's , Securities and Ledger Department , and Drumsheugh Branch , where he was Manager for four years . |
| 25 | Field , who has doctorate in micropalaeontology , arrived in Angola from Milan where he was manager for BP Italy . |
| 26 | That was not all : he was quartermaster for the army and when Ferdinand II could no longer pay his bills , Wallenstein was given leave to create his own mint , a privilege normally unique to the emperor . |
| 27 | He cleared his throat , casting about for something to say which would indicate that though he was game for anything , he nonetheless knew how to keep his hands to himself . |
| 28 | If I said I needed a member of the cast to be doused with a bucket of water , he would be the first to volunteer ; he was game for anything . |
| 29 | Oh yes , and he could get executor , he was executor for one poor old lady old Mrs used to live on the causeway er er er , the first little house you know where the th th , er you 're coming this way on the causeway there 's The Elms , ai n't they ? |
| 30 | He founded two cycling associations — the North Road Cycling Club and Cyclists ' Road Records Association , of which he was President for nearly 30 years — an unique achievement for a deaf man in a mainly hearing organisation . |