Example sentences of "[noun] have been [adj] minister " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , Hans Dietrich Genscher has been Foreign Minister for the last 18 years . |
| 2 | Demirel had been Prime Minister six times in the period until 1980 , and several of his administrations had been coalitions . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | Mr Kaifu has been prime minister since August 1989 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In her article , she explained that Major had been Prime Minister for only 17 months . |
| 7 | Wijdenbosch had been Prime Minister of the military-backed government responsible for the 1987 Constitution allowing in that year the first general election since 1977 [ see pp. 35758-59 ] . |
| 8 | Who is the only man in the 20th Century to have been Prime Minister under three different monarchs ? |
| 9 | He voluntarily relinquished it on the eve of seventy , the only man of this century to have been Prime Minister three times . |