prime minister

Converse of object

• become: By the time Benjamin Disraeli became prime minister for the first time, the house was in poor shape.
• appoint: The president appoints a prime minister and council of ministers.
• say: A senior Scottish Labor MP said the prime minister must stop defying public opinion over the crisis in Lebanon.
• believe: They had the money, they had the majority and - if we believe the prime minister - they had the desire.
• choose: Eg, the monarch symbolically chooses the prime minister, can dissolve parliament and no bill can pass into law without royal assent.
• include: No Briton, including the prime minister and all members of the police and armed forces, is above the law.

Preposition: at

• time: Unfortunately the prime minister at the time, Winston Churchill, ordered the machines to be destroyed at the end of the war.
• election: At most it could determine who might be a future prime minister at the next general election.

Converse of subject

head: An emergency committee, headed by the prime minister, has been tasked to deal with the drought, Kim added.

Adjective modifier

• deputy: John Prescott will stay as deputy prime minister, but will lose his department.
• former: The most popular candidate among party supporters is Lionel Jospin, the former prime minister, who lost to Jacques Chirac in 2002.
• Israeli: Did they mean that the US was not putting enough pressure on the hardline Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon to make concessions for peace?
• Conservative: As divided, in fact, as they were under the last Conservative prime minister.
• Australian: Australian prime minister John Howard has argued that East Timor needs better governance.
• liberal: Gladstone became Liberal prime minister for the second time in April 1880 and hoped to pass an emergency Land Bill through parliament that summer.

Possessives

• question: Cameron also passed the big test of prime minister's questions.
• time: His interventions at prime minister's question time and his points of order to the speaker often cause a deal of unease for ministers.
• view: The prime minister's views on nuclear are well known.
• performance: Le Journal de la Haute-Marne, in the northeast, is similarly dismissive of the prime minister's performance.

Preposition: for

time: By the time Benjamin Disraeli became prime minister for the first time, the house was in poor shape.