Example sentences of "[been] [verb] as minister " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knowles was replaced by Perry Christie , who had been dismissed as Minister of Tourism in 1984 [ see p.33401 ] and subsequently elected as an independent MP . |
| 2 | On Dec. 29 Kibaki , together with John Keen , a former Assistant in the Office of the President , and Eliud Mwamunga , who had been dismissed as Minister of Works , Housing and Physical Planning in 1988 [ see p. 36136 ] announced the launch on Jan. 2 of the Democratic Party . |
| 3 | Zegeye Asfaw , appointed Agriculture and Environmental Protection and Development Minister , had previously been named as Minister of Labour and Social Affairs in a radio broadcast on May 9 . |
| 4 | ALTHOUGH Mr David Mellor 's new role as Secretary for National Heritage has been caricatured as Minister of Fun or Minister for Free Tickets , he was at pains yesterday to emphasise more serious aspects of his task ahead . |
| 5 | Had it been new information , it would have been presented independently in the predicate , because this is where new information normally occurs in English : Heseltine has been appointed as Minister of the Environment . |
| 6 | The Agence France-Presse news agency reported on July 5 that Mahesh Acharya and Ram Badan Yadav both recently elected to the National Council , had been appointed as Minister of Finance and Minister of Health respectively . |
| 7 | Geagea and Minqarah had been appointed as Minister of State and Minister for Tourism , respectively , in the new Cabinet in May 1992 [ see p. 38933 ] . |
| 8 | Zhivkov had been called as a witness in the trial , beginning on Feb. 13 , of Stoyan Ovcharov , who had been removed as Minister of Economy and Planning and as a candidate member of the former Bulgarian Communist Party politburo immediately after Zhivkov 's fall from power . |
| 9 | Stoyan Ovcharov , who had been removed as Minister of Economy and Planning and as a candidate member of the former Bulgarian Communist Party politburo immediately after the fall from power of Todor Zhivkov in November 1989 , was found guilty on June 6 of " taking undue advantage of his authority in favour of a third person " to the detriment of the state . |