Example sentences of "[noun] and 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Hotel Des Etrangers is centrally located about 250 yards from the Piazzo Colombo and a few minutes walk from the Via Matteotti . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A key suspect and witness was Yannis Mantzouranis , legal adviser to Koskotas and a former Cabinet aide to Papandreou . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Among those on board with him are a nurse , an ex-policeman and a former Navy diver . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Back to that poky little shop , livin' off the takin 's of penny bags of bullseyes and a few pence worth of paraffin oil ! ’ |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | The announcement was made after magistrates in Osaka arrested Onoue and a former branch manager at Tokyo Shinkin , Tomomi Maekawa . |
| 18 | In January ETA " itinerant commandos " had killed three soldiers , a policeman and a former government minister in four attacks in Barcelona , Bilbao and Valencia . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 " . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The report was prepared by Benjamin Alexander , a former senior US government official and a former university president who was trained as a chemist . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The Conservative establishment at Westminster — the 1922 Committee — is promoting Sir Giles Shaw , MP for Pudsey and a former Industry Minister . |
| 28 | The genes A and a that control size in peas are just one of many genetic ‘ loci ’ in peas . |
| 29 | The Assembly also reintroduced the post of Prime Minister , abolished in 1984 [ see p. 32778 ] , and on April 25 Biya named Sadou Hayatou , hitherto Secretary-General at the Presidency and a former Finance Minister , to the post . |
| 30 | The determination to move the party 's and public 's attention from internal splits on to the current political agenda was demonstrated in speeches last night by Mr Chalmers and a former SNP leader , Gordon Wilson , targeting the constitutional question . |