Example sentences of "[verb] been [adj] minister " in BNC.
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| 1 | He became an MP in 1974 , joined the Cabinet as Chief Secretary to the Treasury in 1985 , and since then has been agricultural minister ( surviving the Edwina Currie salmonella in eggs scare ) , Education Secretary , Leader of the House and now transport . |
| 2 | Mr Kaifu has been prime minister since August 1989 . |
| 3 | Is he not ashamed that so many children have been thrown on to the streets of Scotland while he has been Prime Minister ? |
| 4 | As the right hon. Gentleman was Chancellor before it started and has been Prime Minister throughout its course , is it not clear that he is not only the Prime Minister of recession , but the prime cause of recession ? |
| 5 | For example , Hans Dietrich Genscher has been Foreign Minister for the last 18 years . |
| 6 | Perhaps , as Cliff Bastin remarked , ‘ He should have been prime minister . ’ |
| 7 | Without the work they did , I could never have been Prime Minister , others could never have been cabinet ministers , nor would we have as many women members of parliament as we have today . |
| 8 | MacDonald 's assumption throughout the Government and almost up to the last moment was that Baldwin and he would retire together , and that Neville Chamberlain , with the freshness , if not of youth , at least of never having been Prime Minister before , would succeed directly . |
| 9 | President : Kenneth Kaunda , since independence , having been Prime Minister since January 1964 . |
| 10 | Right , so you think that Margaret Thatcher , having been Prime Minister for over a decade and having nominated her heir apparent , and having left in erm a rather tearful manner and being pushed out , you think that she said ‘ right , from now on it 's hands off ’ ? |
| 11 | Margaret Thatcher seems to have been Prime Minister all my life , and the Falklands War is just a vague and fearful memory of someone else 's brother going off to fight . |
| 12 | Who is the only man in the 20th Century to have been Prime Minister under three different monarchs ? |
| 13 | He voluntarily relinquished it on the eve of seventy , the only man of this century to have been Prime Minister three times . |
| 14 | Ali Aref Bourhan , the Afar politician who had been Chief Minister of the territory before independence in 1977 , was on July 12 sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment along with eight other people similarly convicted of plotting to overthrow the government [ for arrests following January 1991 coup attempt see p. 37946 ; for October 1991 hunger strike see p. 38565 ] . |
| 15 | In the 1988 General Election in Sweden the Social Democrats had a huge sympathy vote lingering on after the murder of Olaf Palme while he had been Prime Minister some years before . |
| 16 | His parents had known it as Andrássy after the Count who had been prime minister when that part of Pest was laid out . |
| 17 | Another notable resident then was the Honourable Thomas Walpole , the second son of Lord Walpole of Wotterton , Norfolk , and the younger brother of the great Sir Robert Walpole , who had been Prime Minister for twenty-two years during the first half of the eighteenth century . |
| 18 | Could one really put one 's hand on one 's heart and swear that the Ponting case would not have happened if Harold Wilson had been Prime Minister ? |
| 19 | He had been Prime Minister for nearly seven years in all when he produced that judgement . |
| 20 | In her article , she explained that Major had been Prime Minister for only 17 months . |
| 21 | product of an ancient and powerful Tory family ( his father , Lord Salisbury , had been Prime Minister ) , Cecil combined leadership of a non-party mass organization with an insider role both at Westminster and Geneva , the headquarters of the League of Nations . |
| 22 | Vítor Saúde María , who had been Prime Minister from May 1982 until his arrest in March 1984 on conspiracy charges [ see p. 32899 ] , and who was currently mayor of the capital , Bissau , was granted political asylum in Portugal on Nov. 2 while on an official mission . |
| 23 | Poati-Souchalaty , who had been Prime Minister since August 1989 , also resigned from the ruling Parti congolais du travail ( PCT ) . |
| 24 | Wijdenbosch had been Prime Minister of the military-backed government responsible for the 1987 Constitution allowing in that year the first general election since 1977 [ see pp. 35758-59 ] . |
| 25 | Omar Arteh Ghaleb , who had been Prime Minister of Somalia 's interim government since February , resigned on Aug. 20 ; Radio Mogadishu reported , however , that President Mahdi , who had been sworn in himself on Aug. 18 [ see p. 38323 ] , had asked him to continue with his responsibilities until a successor was appointed . |
| 26 | Lini , 48 , had been Prime Minister since independence in 1980 . |
| 27 | The most politically significant event in the year to mid-1991 was the replacement in November 1990 of Margaret Thatcher , who had been Prime Minister since 1979 and leader of the Conservative Party since 1975 by John Major [ see pp. 37839-40 ] . |
| 28 | Demirel had been Prime Minister six times in the period until 1980 , and several of his administrations had been coalitions . |
| 29 | He had led the party since 1984 , succeeding Dom Mintoff [ see p. 33794 ] , and had been Prime Minister from then until the party 's defeat in 1987 . |
| 30 | In Slovakia the casualties ( at federal and republican level ) included the Civic Democratic Union ( formerly the Civic Democratic Union " Public against Violence " see p. 38831 ) , to which the outgoing Federal Prime Minister Marian Calfa belonged , and the Social Democratic Party in Slovakia [ see p. 38831 ] , whose list was headed by Alexander Dubcek , the outgoing Federal Assembly chair who had been Prime Minister at the time of the 1968 " Prague Spring " . |