Example sentences of "appointed as minister " in BNC.

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1 The first man to be appointed as Minister , Lance Buckmaster , had seemed logical .
2 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 .
3 In 1882 he was appointed as minister to Italy .
4 Wilson Ndolo Ayah , hitherto Minister of Water Development , was on March 9 appointed as Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation in succession to Robert J. Ouko , who had been murdered in mid-February [ see p. 37239 ] .
5 Lt.-Col. Mohamed Sidina Ould Sidya , appointed as Minister of the Interior in February 1990 [ see p. 37239 ] , was dismissed in a reshuffle on April 28 and replaced by Maj. Cheik Sid'Ahmed Ould Baba .
6 Jean-Baptiste Zongo was appointed as Minister of Peasant Co-operatives on July 28 , 1990 .
7 Félix Alberto Canal Torres took over from Sotomayor as Fisheries Minister , and Jaime Yoshiyama was appointed as Minister for Transport and Communications , replacing Eduardo Toledo González .
8 Ubaldo Scavone was appointed as Minister for Industry and Commerce on May 23 in place of Antonio Zuccolillo Moscarda who became a presidential economic adviser .
9 Chien You-hsin was appointed as Minister of Communications , replacing Clement Chang who had resigned in April [ see p. 38147 ] .
10 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 .
11 In early July Mahesh Acharya and Ram Badan Yadav were appointed as Minister of Finance and Minister of Health respectively [ see p. 38339 ] .
12 Leon Wessels , who had relinquished the Public Works portfolio , was appointed as Minister of Manpower in addition to his other portfolios of Planning , Provincial Affairs and National Housing , and Local Government .
13 Chamlong 's second-in-command , Col. Winai Somphong , was appointed as Minister of Communications , a portfolio long tainted by accusations of corruption .
14 Gen. Chaovalit , the NAP leader , was appointed as Minister of the Interior .
15 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 ] .
16 Manuel Arburúa , appointed as Minister for Commerce , had , until then , been Under-Secretary at the combined Ministry for Commerce and Industry and was , by profession , an economist specializing in financial and monetary policy .
17 At the same time , however , the man appointed as Minister , Gabriel Arias Salgado , was a rigid Catholic and well known for the fanatical campaigns against sin and temptation in literature , cinema and theatre that he had master-minded from the Department of Popular Education in the 1940s .
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