Example sentences of "[verb] [been] president " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | Tabai , who had been President since independence , was constitutionally prohibited for serving a further term in office . |
| 33 | Pujol had been president of the regional government since Catalonia became autonomous in 1979 . |
| 34 | DeRoburt , 69 , who had been ill for several years , had been President of Nauru from independence in 1968 until 1989 , apart from short interludes in 1976-68 ( when he was Leader of the Opposition ) and 1986 . |
| 35 | The decision to remove exchange controls had an unexpected bearing on the progress of the campaign against Imelda Marcos , whom the government was prosecuting on corruption charges relating to the years in which her late husband had been President of the Philippines . |
| 36 | He is Mr Juan Carlos Pugliese , who had been president of the lower house of congress . |