Example sentences of "[be] [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 | ( González had previously been Health Minister , appointed on Sept. 23 to replace Julio César Corzo who was killed in an air crash . ) |
| 7 | One such was General Ahmad Hassan al-Bakr , president of the republic from 1968 until 1979 , when he was succeeded by his kinsman Saddam Hussein ; others were Defence Minister Adnan Khairallah and Saddam 's half-brother Barazan , head of the Mukhabarat , or Internal Intelligence . |
| 8 | Among supporters of Cardoso de Mello who left office at the same time as her were Infrastructure Minister Eduardo Teixeira ( appointed in March — see p. 38095 ) , chief foreign debt negotiator Jorio Dauster , president of the Central Bank of Brazil , Ibrahim Eris , and president of the state-owned Banco do Brasil , Alberto Policarpo . |
| 9 | If you were transport minister , what would be your first action ? |
| 10 | The delegation leaders were Transport Minister and politburo member Lt.-Gen. |
| 11 | The most prominent UNP dissidents were Education Minister Lalith Athulathmudali , who resigned from the Cabinet on Aug. 30 , and former minister Gamini Dissanayake [ see p. 37316 ] . |
| 12 | Also high in the frame is Treasury Minister Stephen Dorrell , 40 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ] . |
| 15 | Ekrem Pakdemirli , who had been Finance Minister until March 1990 , became Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State with responsibility for economic affairs . |
| 16 | Gaidar had served as joint First Deputy Prime Minister since May , having formerly been Finance Minister . |
| 17 | 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 ] . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The greatest prize of all , after the successful removal of Mr Hussein , would be American help to recover the Golan Heights , which Israel conquered when Mr Assad was defence minister in 1967 . |
| 20 | A prominent figure in the PS , he was Defence Minister at the time of the sinking of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand in July 1985 [ see pp. 33852-54 ] as a result of which he was obliged to resign in September 1985 [ see p. 34565 ] . |
| 21 | And Mr Major faces Labour demands for an official inquiry into the month-long villa holiday taken when Mr Mellor was Arts Minister . |
| 22 | And Mellor willingly accepted her lavish hospitality — even though he was Arts Minister at the time and she was a film producer . |
| 23 | The first Cabinet member to be linked with the Sagawa scandal was Transport Minister Keiwa Okuda , who on March 1 admitted that the salary of one of his aides had been paid for by the transport group at the centre of the scandal . |
| 24 | He was indicted in 1983 for having helped the Flick company escape tax obligations while he was Economics Minister ( Flick was a donor to party funds ) . |
| 25 | His replacement was Education Minister José Goldemberg , who was to hold the post on an interim basis . |
| 26 | When Kenneth Baker was Education Minister he opposed the funding of Muslim schools . |
| 27 | However Ms Armstrong says no such rule existed when her father Ernest Armstrong was Education Minister in 1974–75 or at any other time under a Labour government . |
| 28 | Amato first held government office in the government formed by Craxi in 1983 , and was Treasury Minister in 1987-89 . |
| 29 | The main opponent was Justice Minister David Libai . |
| 30 | Rabuka , 43 , had been challenged for the post of Prime Minister by Josefata Kamikamica , who was Finance Minister in the outgoing government of interim Prime Minister Ratu Kamisese Mara . |