Example sentences of "then minister [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 22 November the question was first raised in the Commons and John Nott , then Minister of Defence , replied : ‘ It would be wholly against our policy to supply equipment such as Rolls-Royce engines direct to Argentina . |
| 2 | Judge Richard Goldstone , the head of the inquiry , said that the MI documents showed that in December 1991 Roelf Meyer , then Minister of Defence , had ordered the dismissal of Barnard following hints of his activities in the press , although Meyer took no other action against Barnard or the senior SADF officers who had authorized his appointment . |
| 3 | In Hansard ( 17 December 1991 , vol 201 , No 25 , col 119 ) Gillian Shephard ( then Minister of State at the Treasury ) stated that Customs ' long-standing policy is that ‘ rent-free periods are outside the scope of VAT unless services are performed by the tenant for the landlord ’ . |
| 4 | As early as 4 April 1990 there was the following exchange between him and Francis Maude , then Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office : |
| 5 | At the end of August talks were held between the Chief Minister P. K. Mahanta , the All Bodo Students Union ( ABSU ) and the central government observer and then Minister of State for Welfare , Rajendra Kumari Bajpai . |
| 6 | Also on July 19 Adriaan Vlok , then Minister of Law and Order , admitted that the police had provided covert funding to Inkatha but described it as " non-political " . |
| 7 | In 1967 , Charles Haughey , then minister of finance in the Irish government , made a speech on opening a new building on St. Stephen 's Green in Dublin in which he said : ‘ I for one , have never believed that all architectural taste and building excellence ceased automatically with the passing of the 18th century . ’ |
| 8 | Lakatani , then Minister of Finance , presented the 1990-91 budget to the Assembly in August 1990 . |
| 9 | However , with the political parties vying in their promises to build more new houses — in 1951 Harold Macmillan , then Minister of Housing , promised to build 300,000 in one year — it became necessary to begin to clear the old slum housing built in the Victorian era . |
| 10 | The resignation of Richardson , then Minister of Justice and National Security , tendered on Sept. 18 for failing to prevent the attempted coup and the ensuing looting , was not accepted at the time by the Prime Minister , with whom Richardson had been held hostage during the crisis . |
| 11 | Chu Okongwu had been Minister of Finance until January 1990 and then Minister of Cabinet Affairs . |
| 12 | Chu Okongwu had been Minister of Finance until January 1990 and then Minister of Cabinet Affairs . |
| 13 | Cecil Parkinson , then Minister of Trade , took a sales force to Argentina in 1979 . |
| 14 | In January Tamas Beck , then Minister of Trade , suspended all licences and contracts for exports to COMECON countries , including quotas stipulated in inter-state agreements . |
| 15 | Foreign Minister since 1989 , Ghozali , 54 , had been president of Sonatrach , the state oil and gas company from 1966 until 1977 , and then Minister of Energy . |
| 16 | The entry in Barbara Castle 's diary for 3 January 1968 records a dinner at Crossman 's Westminster home where she , her host , Peter Shore , Tony Benn ( then Minister of Technology ) and Balogh engaged in a collective whinge about Wilson 's management of Cabinet : |