Example sentences of "been [noun] minister " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kryuchkov had been KGB chairman since October 1988 [ see p. 36256 ] and Yazov had been Defence Minister since 1987 . |
| 2 | Koty had been Defence Minister until December 1991 [ see p. 38665 ; for February 1992 coup attempt see p. 38800 ] . |
| 3 | Philip Greaves , had the portfolios of Public Works and Communications added to his existing responsibilities ; he was also Leader of the House of Assembly Warwick Franklin had hitherto been Agriculture Minister , where his tenure had been a controversial one . |
| 4 | He was replaced by Nouri Zorgati , who had been Agriculture Minister until 1991 . |
| 5 | These were the highest offices Arabs had held in the Israeli government since 1973 , when Abdel-Aziz Zoabi had been Deputy Minister of Health . |
| 6 | The same can be said of the junior ministers who finally wrecked the government in 1922 ; many of these would have been cabinet ministers in a party government . |
| 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 | ( González had previously been Health Minister , appointed on Sept. 23 to replace Julio César Corzo who was killed in an air crash . ) |
| 9 | A Moslem from West Nile province , Ali had been Finance Minister in the Idi Amin regime but went into exile before Amin 's overthrow , joining the Museveni government as Tourism and Wildlife Minister in 1986 . |
| 10 | Sacko , a UN Development Programme ( UNDP ) official serving in the Central African Republic , had been Finance Minister for six months before resigning in August 1987 in protest at the unwillingness of Traoré 's government to support him in a drive against corruption [ see pp. 36085-86 ] . |
| 11 | Ekrem Pakdemirli , who had been Finance Minister until March 1990 , became Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State with responsibility for economic affairs . |
| 12 | Gaidar had served as joint First Deputy Prime Minister since May , having formerly been Finance Minister . |
| 13 | A member of the Socialist Unity Party ( PSU , until October 1990 the Socialist Party ( PSI ) — see p. 37786 ) , Vassalli had been Justice Minister since July 1987 [ see p. 35589 ] . |
| 14 | A parliamentary inquiry eventually cleared him of the allegations in June , but investigations continued into the conduct of Erik Ninn Hansen , who had been Justice Minister at the time . |