Example sentences of "[adv] been prime [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nagy had already been prime minister from 1953 to 1955 but had fallen from favour and Rákosi returned to power . |
| 2 | MacDonald , had he still been Prime Minister , would have lost the issue in verbiage and drowned himself in self-pity . |
| 3 | There were nine women in the 19-member cabinet appointed by Brundtland , who had previously been Prime Minister in 1981 and in 1986-89 [ see pp. 30748 ; 31246-47 ; 34502-03 ; 36984-85 ] . |
| 4 | Azzedine Laraki , who had been Prime Minister since 1986 , was replaced by Karim Lamrani , 72 , an economist with a background in business who had previously been Prime Minister in 1971 and 1983 . |
| 5 | Two senior ND members , Tzannis Tzannetakis ( who had briefly been Prime Minister in 1989 ) and Athanassios Kanellopoulos , were appointed Deputy Prime Ministers . |
| 6 | Shapour Bakhtiar , 76 , who had briefly been Prime Minister in 1979 ( Jan. 3-Feb. 5 — see pp. 29740-44 ) in the last days of the Shah 's regime , was murdered at his home in a Paris suburb on Aug. 6 ; French police only discovered his body on Aug. 8 , together with the body of an aide apparently also killed in the attack . |