Sentence examples for had been finance from inspiring English sources

It reports that while hospital board members said quality of care had always been a top priority, many staff said the trust's priorities had been "finance and achieving foundation trust status".

The share awards are intended to replace bonuses that Hunt left behind at Standard Life, where she had been finance director and was regarded as a future chief executive.

It is 25 years since Sorrell took a loan out against his shares in Saatchi & Saatchi, where he had been finance director, and bought a small company called Wire and Plastic Products, which made wire baskets, and which he would build into the largest advertising and marketing services group in the world.

"I believe that in order to facilitate the work of [investigators] the right thing would be to place my resignation at the disposal of the president of the republic, which I did," said Sarris, who had been finance minister for just six weeks.

He had been finance director and knew the numbers.

Singh took responsibility for India's economy over the weekend when Palaniappan Chidambaram, who had been finance minister of India for the past four years, took over as home minister.

Until now, major efforts had been financed and directed by the Italian Government.

Both programs had been financed by the City Council but had not begun.

The only real programs, they said, had been financed by the World Health Organization.

The thesis had been financed by MHRD Ministry of Human Resource Developmentt), India.

Until 2001 Geiger had been financing losses with his own capital.