Example sentences of "[vb past] the [adj] minister " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another official visitor was Barend du Plessis , the Finance Minister , while Helen Suzman , the best known of all the critics of the system in South Africa , met the Prime Minister a week ago . |
| 2 | A delegation of five Conservative MPs yesterday met the Prime Minister and left Downing Street convinced they had made ‘ enormous progress ’ in persuading Mrs Thatcher to make a one-off ex-gratia payment to the victims . |
| 3 | After a lengthy discussion with the Foreign Minister , Mr Qian Qichen , they met the Prime Minister , Mr Li Peng , and the Communist Party leader , Mr Jiang Zemin . |
| 4 | Disgusted by the latest battle between the quarrelsome politicians , he met the prime minister , Nawaz Sharif , and the president , Ghulam Ishaq Khan , separately on May 31st and told them to make peace or else . |
| 5 | On Aug. 7 Greguric met the Prime Minister of the rump Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( FRY ) , Milan Panic , in Budapest , with the mediation of Hungarian Prime Minister Jozsef Antall . |
| 6 | After a weekend of uproar over reports that the Government intended to by-pass Parliament if defeated on the Maastricht bill and ratify the treaty anyway , Mr Hurd met the Prime Minister , John Major , the Leader in the Lords , John Wakeham , and the Chief Whip , Richard Ryder , at Downing Street yesterday morning . |
| 7 | Members of the National Council [ see pp. 37549-50 ; 38309 ; 38361 ] who met the Foreign Minister , Shaikh Salem as Sabah as Salim as Sabah , on Aug. 22 , confirmed afterwards that they had " called for expanding proposals … to include setting up bases for the United States and Britain " . |
| 8 | Not one word on the environment passed the Prime Minister 's lips when he welcomed the Queen 's Speech at the start of this Session . |
| 9 | The minority included Sir Keith Joseph , who took his bleak monetarist outlook to the Department of Trade and Industry , and John Biffen , an early apostle of Enoch Powell 's financial credo , who became a Treasury Minister ( and who also shared the Prime Minister 's lack of enthusiasm for ‘ Europe ’ ) . |
| 10 | This amused the Prime Minister . |
| 11 | Joseph Rwegasira became the new Minister of Labour , Culture and Social Services . |
| 12 | But , before doing so , he asked the Prime Minister if she wished to say a few words . |
| 13 | The petition drew attention to the events in Orkney and the way in which the case had been managed ; it asked the Prime Minister , John Major , to hold a public judicial inquiry into all the circumstances , It asked , too , for the working of Orkney 's Social Work Department , and other involved Social Work Departments , to be investigated . |
| 14 | I recently asked the Prime Minister about that , and was rather surprised to receive the answer that the Government supported proposals in the intergovernmental conference for a new consultative body to represent the regions at Community level . |
| 15 | ‘ Do you know what a naval battle is ? ’ asked the French minister , Maurepas . |
| 16 | In an interview with the Guardian , he attacked the Prime Minister for failing to have an urgent strategy to help the reform movements in the East . |
| 17 | Tony Blair , the shadow home secretary , attacked the Prime Minister 's approach but appeared to have common ground with Mr Clarke in a fresh approach to tackling crime . |
| 18 | On Wednesday 5 March 1980 , I explored the practicalities of this course at a meeting in the department and on 10 March I minuted the Prime Minister . |
| 19 | Ishaq Khan maintained his claim to be following a strictly non-partisan attitude in interpreting his constitutional role ( greatly enhanced by constitutional amendments introduced by Zia in August 1988 ) , but soon disputed the Prime Minister 's right to make senior military appointments . |
| 20 | You , Mr. Speaker — indeed , the whole House — will know that the Archbishop of Canterbury , the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster , the Moderator of the Free Church Federal Council and the Chief Rabbi drew the Prime Minister 's attention to the pre-Christmas law-breaking , which they said ’ will determine the institution of a nationally observed day in the week substantially set apart for activities which are other than commercial in nature . |
| 21 | One group dismissed the Prime Minister 's offer as an attempt to co-opt him into the ruling Chart Thai party and thus disarm his independent political ambitions . |
| 22 | On April 6 King Birendra dismissed the Prime Minister , Marich Man Singh Shrestha , and appointed in his place Lokendra Bahadur Chand , who resigned on April 16 to be replaced by the Nepali Congress Party president , Krishna Prasad Bhattarai ; a new government was sworn in three days later . |
| 23 | The protests continued and in early April , in an effort to contain the mounting unrest , King Birendra dismissed the Prime Minister , Marich Man Singh Shrestha , and appointed in his place the moderate Lokendra Bahadur Chand . |
| 24 | He ridiculed the ceremonies in impeccable prose , and disparaged the British Minister and his family , who had not invited him to lunch . |
| 25 | In courteously making a special journey to Beeching 's home to induce him to accept the invitation , Gardiner incurred the Prime Minister 's displeasure : Dr Beeching should have been invited to call on the Lord Chancellor . |
| 26 | The prebendary was still ranting on , unconscious of danger , as he quoted scripture and mentioned the Prime Minister , whose determination to get rid of sex and violence , and anything else amusing on TV , he commended . |
| 27 | In June , one of France 's leading economic experts , Jacques Rueff , approached the new minister of finance , Antoine Pinay , with a proposal for a sweeping " programme of economic and financial renovation " . |
| 28 | ‘ We approached the local minister to ascertain if they had a visiting committee . |
| 29 | When Jones arrived , about seven , he found the Prime Minister reading a novel . |
| 30 | He regarded the Prime Minister 's unfastidious use of the honours system as the most obviously shocking but by no means necessarily the most dangerous manifestation of the system . |