Example sentences of "been minister " in BNC.
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| 1 | William Howe , his father , had been minister of the parish for fifteen years . |
| 2 | Hugh you 've been minister of the parish of Inverleith here in Edinburgh for the past seventeen years , and I understand you were one of the very first vice convenors of the Board when it was set up eight years ago having already served the church on the former Interchurch Relations Committee . |
| 3 | Every year that I have been Minister with responsibility for housing — it is now six years — the Housing Executive has suggested an amount which it hopes that the Government will give it , while knowing perfectly well that it will not get all that it asks for . |
| 4 | Luo Gan had been Minister of Labour from April 1988 , and a member of the State Planning Commission since July 1988 . |
| 5 | Three whites were appointed : Dennis Norman , who had been Minister of Agriculture in 1980-85 ; Chris Anderson , the outgoing Minister of State for Public Service ; and Timothy Stamps , one of five ministers new to the government . |
| 6 | Chu Okongwu had been Minister of Finance until January 1990 and then Minister of Cabinet Affairs . |
| 7 | Chu Okongwu had been Minister of Finance until January 1990 and then Minister of Cabinet Affairs . |
| 8 | Velichko had been Minister of Heavy Machine Building . |
| 9 | Mitsuzuka , 63 , had been Minister of Foreign Affairs until Kaifu 's election in August 1989 [ see p. 36849 ] . |
| 10 | A veteran politician , he had been Minister of Labour also during the " hot autumn " of 1969 [ see p. 23941 ] . |
| 11 | He was succeeded on June 22 by Javier Solana Madariaga , 50 , who had been Minister of Education and Science since 1988 and was regarded as a close associate of Prime Minister Felipe González . |
| 12 | Tim Renton , once the Minister for the Arts ( in any other country save Britain his title would have been Minister of Culture ) , thought Hyacinth would have made an admirable Carmen . |