Example sentences of "been [adj] minister " in BNC.
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| 1 | He became an MP in 1974 , joined the Cabinet as Chief Secretary to the Treasury in 1985 , and since then has been agricultural minister ( surviving the Edwina Currie salmonella in eggs scare ) , Education Secretary , Leader of the House and now transport . |
| 2 | I had seen him on a number of occasions during my childhood in Abyssinia where my father had been British Minister at Addis Ababa , but this was the first time I spoke to him . |
| 3 | For example , Hans Dietrich Genscher has been Foreign Minister for the last 18 years . |
| 4 | Siddhi , who had been Foreign Minister for 10 years but was considered hostile to Chatichai 's Cambodia policy and to any rapprochement with Vietnam [ see p. 37654 ] , was dropped altogether from the government . |
| 5 | Yilmaz , 43 , had been Foreign Minister from 1987 until his February 1990 resignation [ see p. 37263 ] . |
| 6 | Jordan : led by Kamel Abu Jaber , who had been Foreign Minister since October . |
| 7 | Gianni De Michelis ( Socialist Unity Party , usually referred to as the PSI ) , who had been Foreign Minister in the previous government , was told on July 14 that he was under investigation for corruption . |
| 8 | Francisco Fernández Ordoñez , who had been Foreign Minister from 1985 until his resignation in June [ see p. 38978 ] , died on Aug. 7 aged 62 . |
| 9 | Ali Aref Bourhan , the Afar politician who had been Chief Minister of the territory before independence in 1977 , was on July 12 sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment along with eight other people similarly convicted of plotting to overthrow the government [ for arrests following January 1991 coup attempt see p. 37946 ; for October 1991 hunger strike see p. 38565 ] . |
| 10 | Margaret Thatcher seems to have been Prime Minister all my life , and the Falklands War is just a vague and fearful memory of someone else 's brother going off to fight . |
| 11 | Mr Kaifu has been prime minister since August 1989 . |
| 12 | In the 1988 General Election in Sweden the Social Democrats had a huge sympathy vote lingering on after the murder of Olaf Palme while he had been Prime Minister some years before . |
| 13 | Nagy had already been prime minister from 1953 to 1955 but had fallen from favour and Rákosi returned to power . |
| 14 | His parents had known it as Andrássy after the Count who had been prime minister when that part of Pest was laid out . |
| 15 | Another notable resident then was the Honourable Thomas Walpole , the second son of Lord Walpole of Wotterton , Norfolk , and the younger brother of the great Sir Robert Walpole , who had been Prime Minister for twenty-two years during the first half of the eighteenth century . |
| 16 | Could one really put one 's hand on one 's heart and swear that the Ponting case would not have happened if Harold Wilson had been Prime Minister ? |
| 17 | He had been Prime Minister for nearly seven years in all when he produced that judgement . |
| 18 | Perhaps , as Cliff Bastin remarked , ‘ He should have been prime minister . ’ |
| 19 | Who is the only man in the 20th Century to have been Prime Minister under three different monarchs ? |
| 20 | In her article , she explained that Major had been Prime Minister for only 17 months . |
| 21 | product of an ancient and powerful Tory family ( his father , Lord Salisbury , had been Prime Minister ) , Cecil combined leadership of a non-party mass organization with an insider role both at Westminster and Geneva , the headquarters of the League of Nations . |
| 22 | He voluntarily relinquished it on the eve of seventy , the only man of this century to have been Prime Minister three times . |
| 23 | MacDonald 's assumption throughout the Government and almost up to the last moment was that Baldwin and he would retire together , and that Neville Chamberlain , with the freshness , if not of youth , at least of never having been Prime Minister before , would succeed directly . |
| 24 | MacDonald , had he still been Prime Minister , would have lost the issue in verbiage and drowned himself in self-pity . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The hon. Gentleman is clearly under the misapprehension that I have been Prime Minister for 50 years — not yet . |
| 27 | Is he not ashamed that so many children have been thrown on to the streets of Scotland while he has been Prime Minister ? |
| 28 | As the right hon. Gentleman was Chancellor before it started and has been Prime Minister throughout its course , is it not clear that he is not only the Prime Minister of recession , but the prime cause of recession ? |
| 29 | Two senior ND members , Tzannis Tzannetakis ( who had briefly been Prime Minister in 1989 ) and Athanassios Kanellopoulos , were appointed Deputy Prime Ministers . |
| 30 | Vítor Saúde María , who had been Prime Minister from May 1982 until his arrest in March 1984 on conspiracy charges [ see p. 32899 ] , and who was currently mayor of the capital , Bissau , was granted political asylum in Portugal on Nov. 2 while on an official mission . |