Example sentences of "then [noun] secretary [prep] state " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following a visit to China in April 1988 by the then UK Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , Lord Young of Graffham , the then Minister for Overseas Development , Chris Patten , signed an agreement on aid and trade worth £300,000,000 ( approximately US$500,000,000 ) in Beijing on Sept. 19 . |
| 2 | At the February 1990 meeting Ordóñez and Douglas Hurd , by then UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs , also agreed to co-operate in preventing Gibraltar from becoming a base for drug trafficking and its burgeoning offshore finance companies from becoming a centre for money laundering . |
| 3 | During a visit to China on July 14-16 , 1988 , the then US Secretary of State , George Shultz , raised the question of the sale of missiles to the Middle East , an issue provoking strong reaction in the US Congress , since the missiles could threaten Israel . |
| 4 | US Secretary of Commerce Barbara Franklin visited China on Dec. 16-18 ; her visit was the first by a US Cabinet member since the then US Secretary of State James Baker visited in November 1991 [ see pp. 38574-75 ] . |
| 5 | Some years later the influential Republican senator , Robert Taft , was still exploiting the American belief that the British were " the best propagandists and the most unprincipled people " in the world when he accused Acheson , the then US secretary of state , of doing whatever the British asked him to do . |