Example sentences of "as [noun] of state [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mujjaddedi , who had travelled overland from Peshawar along with 20 other IJC members , was formally appointed as head of state of the new Islamic State of Afghanistan . |
| 2 | AUSTRALIA will replace the Queen as head of state by the end of the century , premier Paul Keating forecast yesterday . |
| 3 | Queen Elizabeth II was replaced as head of state by the former Governor General , Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau , who was sworn in as President on Dec. 5 . |
| 4 | Although the economy was at the centre of people 's concern in these elections , Keating spiced up his campaign by announcing his plan to abolish the Queen as head of state by the year 2001 — the centenary of Australia 's conversion from a group of colonies to a federation of states — and turn the country into a federal republic . |
| 5 | ' He told the Conservative Party that it would be an unpopular tax when he first opposed the idea — successfully — as Secretary of State for the Environment in the early Eighties . |
| 6 | As Minister of State at the Home Office ( 1989-90 ) he handled the deregulation of broadcasting legislation . |
| 7 | In his last assignment as Minister of State at the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office , Francis Maude visited China on July 25-27 , primarily for talks on Hong Kong . |
| 8 | David Mellor was appointed Minister of State at the Privy Council Office with responsibility for the arts ; Angela Rumbold took over his previous post of Minister of State at the Home Office and was replaced as Minister of State at the Department of Education and Science by Timothy Eggar . |
| 9 | June 5 : nine ministers were dismissed , 11 new appointments made , including Edouard Franck as Minister of State at the Presidency in charge of Co-ordination , the Cabinet Secretariat and Relations with Parliament . |
| 10 | Josef Riegler , who had already been replaced as Federal Vice-Chancellor by ÖVP president Erhard Busek on July 2 , resigned as Minister for Federalism and for Administrative Reform in the Federal Chancellery , and was replaced by Jurgen Weiss , while Johannes Ditz succeeded Günter Stummvoll as Minister of State to the Finance Minister . |
| 11 | Of the NRC members nominated by the President , Betty Bigombe was named as Minister of State in the Prime Minister 's Office resident in north central Uganda , and as such in charge of the pacification campaign in the north . |
| 12 | On Dec. 3 Lutz Stavenhagen , 51 , resigned as Minister of State in the Chancellery in charge of overseeing the espionage services and German policy on Europe . |
| 13 | On Jan. 7 President Hastings Kamuzu Banda appointed a new government , in which the most notable change was the appointment of John Tembo as Minister of State in the President 's Office . |
| 14 | The appointment of Jean Nguza Karl-I-Bond as Minister of State in the Office of the President was announced on national television on Sept. 2 . |