Example sentences of "been [art] [noun] minister " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been the Land Minister President in 1971-82 in Schleswig-Holstein , where his resignation from the federal government was expected to be a factor in elections in early April . |
| 2 | He has had a distinguished career as a businessman and a politician and , on two occasions , has been the Cabinet Minister responsible for UK energy matters . |
| 3 | Mahdi , 52 , had been a government minister in the 1960s , but was imprisoned after Siyad Barre 's takeover in 1969 . |
| 4 | An interim Prime Minster , Jean Jacques Honorat , who had been a government minister under former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier and was one of Aristide 's bitterest critics , was installed on Oct. 10 ; a new Cabinet was announced on Oct. 16 . |
| 5 | While the election of Paisley was a major blow to the credibility of Chichester-Clark , who might have been better advised to save face by not becoming personally involved in opposing Paisley , William Beattie 's victory in South Antrim was probably more damaging in that Beattie was far less well known , was standing in a more cosmopolitan constituency , and was competing against a man who had previously been a cabinet minister . |