Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [vb pp] minister [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Meanwhile , Abd al-Basit Sabdrat was appointed Minister of Education and Abdullah Muhammed Ahmed , his predecessor , became Minister of Culture and Information .
2 Gen. Shaposhnikov was appointed Minister of Defence , replacing Gen. Moiseyev , whose former position as Chief of General Staff went to Gen. Vladimir Lobov , a known reformer ; Grachev was made Deputy Defence Minister .
3 At the same time José Carlos Moco was appointed Minister for Youth and Sports .
4 Lord Hailsham was appointed Minister of Education .
5 Piet Marais was appointed Minister of Manpower and retained the Ministry of Education and Culture .
6 Djohar named a 12-member Cabinet on March 22 , among whom Kemal was named as Minister of State for Economy and Trade , and de facto second in the governing hierarchy ; Mroudjae was appointed Minister of Production , Industry and Handicrafts .
7 Abdul Wahab Mahmoud al-Sabbagh was appointed Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation on March 25 , 1990 .
8 When Lord Addison was made Minister of Health he concentrated entirely on methods of financing council housing , and under the ill-conceived Housing and Town Planning Act of 1919 he guaranteed local authorities all losses over that covered by a penny rate .
9 Wade was appointed Minister of State , a post whose responsibilities were not immediately defined .
10 Kwaouvi Benyi Johnson was appointed Minister of Information .
11 David Mellor was appointed Minister of State at the Privy Council Office with responsibility for the arts ; Angela Rumbold took over his previous post of Minister of State at the Home Office and was replaced as Minister of State at the Department of Education and Science by Timothy Eggar .
12 Janusz Ziolkowski was appointed head of the Presidential Chancellery , and Jerzy Milewski was appointed Minister of State and also as Secretary of the Committee for National Defence , replacing Maciej Zalewski .
13 Enver Halile was appointed Minister of Justice on May 8 .
14 Gen. Saulo Ramos was appointed Minister of Justice on Aug. 7 , 1989 , replacing Oscar Dias Corrêa , who had resigned on Aug. 1 after frequently speaking out against mismanagement of the economy and corruption in the administration .
15 At the same time Louis Mermaz was appointed Minister of Agriculture and Forestry , with Henri Nallet moving to Justice in place of Pierre Arpaillange .
16 Kiruga M'Mukindia was appointed Minister for Research , Science and Technology , replacing George Muhoho .
17 Aguiar Mazula , hitherto Labour Minister , was appointed Minister of State Administration ; Teodato Hunguana , hitherto Information Minister , became Minister of Labour ; Rafael Maguni was appointed Minister of Information ; and Octavio Mutemba became Minister of Industry and Energy .
18 Sir , — When Malcolm Rifkind was made Minister of Transport I wrote a letter to him congratulating him on his appointment , expressing the hope that he would be a success in his job and asking him to instruct his Civil Servants to concentrate their efforts more on the railways of this country rather than on the roads .
19 Louis Pienaar was appointed Minister of Home Affairs and remained in charge of Environment Affairs .
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