Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] a [det] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are selling historical information so it has to be valuable , ’ said Col Anatoly Privalov , vice-chairman of the Veterans Association and a former intelligence operative in Turkey and Algeria . |
| 2 | The umpires are calling for their new chairman to be Roy Kerslake , a Taunton lawyer and a former Somerset cricketer . |
| 3 | Ro Jai Bong , 54 , hitherto chief presidential aide and a former university professor , was appointed to succeed Prime Minister Kang Young Hoon , whom Roh had reportedly asked to retire from public life . |
| 4 | VAUX DURHAM COAST LEAGUE SUNDERLAND footballer Richard Ord is still missing from Murton 's side but a former Roker Park employee makes his debut in today 's home game against Easington . |
| 5 | The facts came to light when a former Brent librarian , J.T. Gillet , read the good news that a new library had been opened in Brent . |
| 6 | Vu Oanh , 67 , and Le Phuoc Tho , 64 , were both elected to the secretariat in 1986 and had been in charge of mass mobilization and agriculture , respectively ; Pham Van Kai , 58 , the Soviet-trained Chair of the State Commission for Planning , was one of five southerners in the new politburo and a former mayor of Ho Chi Minh City ; Bui Thien Ngo , 62 , was Permanent Vice-Minister of the Interior ; Nong Duc Manh , 51 , a member of the Tay ethnic group and the first minority leader to be elected to the politburo , was head of the central committee 's commission for nationalities ; Pham The Duyet , 55 , was secretary of the Hanoi party committee and a former trade union leader ; Nguyen Duc Binh , 64 , was director of the Nguyen Duc Binh Institute for training party cadres ; Vo Tran Chi , 64 , was secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City party committee . |
| 7 | The Hotel Des Etrangers is centrally located about 250 yards from the Piazzo Colombo and a few minutes walk from the Via Matteotti . |
| 8 | The estranged cousin of Aquino and a former Marcos associate , Cojuangco was supported by a faction of the Liberal Party , and by his faction of the Nacionalista Party . |
| 9 | Charges of subversion against two of the government 's most prominent critics , a lawyer , Chief Gani Fawehinmi and a former Kaduna state Governor , Balarabe Musa [ see pp. 36648 ; 36727 ; 36968 ] , were dropped by a military tribunal in late January 1990 . |
| 10 | A key suspect and witness was Yannis Mantzouranis , legal adviser to Koskotas and a former Cabinet aide to Papandreou . |
| 11 | Ernst & Young fielded a former Inland Revenue Inspector of Taxes and a former VAT inspector — gamekeepers turned poacher as it were — to talk about the changes brought about by the Single Market to the regulations governing direct taxation and VAT . |
| 12 | He picked her up in his car after Mrs Dean said she had some news from his ex-wife Debbie , Geoffrey Dean 's sister and a former beauty queen . |
| 13 | He picked her up in his car after Mrs Dean told him she had some news from his ex-wife Debbie , Geoffrey Dean 's sister and a former beauty queen . |
| 14 | Among those on board with him are a nurse , an ex-policeman and a former Navy diver . |
| 15 | Getting these filled was like a military operation , the grown-ups with large baskets of food , children clutching buckets and spades , bottles of lemonade and a few pence pocket money to buy ice cream and other seaside delights . |
| 16 | The two main changes were the appointments of ( i ) Hans Engell ( Con. ) , the parliamentary leader and a former Defence Minister , as Justice Minister ; and ( ii ) Kent Kirk ( Con. ) as Fisheries Minister in succession to Lars Gammelgaard . |
| 17 | Back to that poky little shop , livin' off the takin 's of penny bags of bullseyes and a few pence worth of paraffin oil ! ’ |
| 18 | The drive towards greater State intervention and a more collectivist solution to the nation 's pre-war problems has been properly identified as part of the legacy of the ‘ people 's war ’ . |
| 19 | The announcement was made after magistrates in Osaka arrested Onoue and a former branch manager at Tokyo Shinkin , Tomomi Maekawa . |
| 20 | Thus an order of the court that a former council house or New Town Development House be transferred to one party of the marriage will not necessitate at the time of the transfer repayment of the discount or any part of it allowable at the time of purchase . |
| 21 | Not surprisingly , Muscovites took little notice of the death among them of Uvarov , for in the atmosphere of late 1855 Granovskii and Shchepkin were dearer to their hearts than a former government minister . |
| 22 | In January ETA " itinerant commandos " had killed three soldiers , a policeman and a former government minister in four attacks in Barcelona , Bilbao and Valencia . |
| 23 | Snow Blizzard is something of a quirky character but would win Lingfield 's mile and a half Taurus Handicap if adapting to the all weather surface . |
| 24 | But yesterday Dunnes Stores ( Billingham ) made a £1,000 offer and a former Oxford blue promised a £50 cheque to end worries that Richardson 's build-up would be affected after taking ten weeks ' unpaid leave from work . |
| 25 | Le Van Triet , 61 , hitherto Deputy Minister of Trade and a former deputy party chief of Ho Chi Minh City , was elected Minister of Commerce in place of Hoang Minh Thang . |
| 26 | The opposition Janata Dal ( JD ) on Dec. 26 expelled Ajit Singh — one of its senior leaders and a former Industry Minister — on grounds of " anti-party activities " . |
| 27 | The recently acquired giant chess set there is to be launched with an exhibition match between the current Ulster champion Adrian Gillen and a former title holder , Tom Clarke . |
| 28 | Inexpensive rediffusion sets ( where one central receiver would serve a large number of speakers in different houses ) were introduced in the Dar es Salaam suburb of Ilala and a few community listening posts elsewhere in the capital . |
| 29 | The report was prepared by Benjamin Alexander , a former senior US government official and a former university president who was trained as a chemist . |
| 30 | A Broadcasting Standards Council , to determine what the British people may or may not watch , will be run , under Lord Rees-Mogg , by a bishop , a headmaster , a psychologist , an educationalist , a retired Labour MP and a former television newsreader . |