Example sentences of "and a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subba Row , also the chairman of Surrey and a former England and Northamptonshire batsman , will remain a powerful voice but clearly wishes for someone else to take the responsibility for the hazards to come . |
| 2 | Malachy Smith , managing director of Wang in Ireland and a former player , said : ‘ We discontinued our South African operation more than than seven years ago and have no ties with that country . ’ |
| 3 | The new directors are Peter Churchill , 59 , a barrister who specialises in corporate law , Peter Ryan , the chairman of Elga Group and a former director of conglomerate Thomas Tilling , now owned by BTR , and Brian Smith , who was group managing director of Rank Organisation until 1983 . |
| 4 | Michael Latham , an executive member of the 1922 Committee of Tory MPs and a former director of the Housebuilders ' Federation , condemned the rise as unnecessary and warned it could lead to a recession . |
| 5 | Sir David is assured of the support of Sir Claus Moser , newly-elected President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science , Warden of Wadham College , Oxford , and a former head of the Government Statistical Service from 1967 to 1978 . |
| 6 | Glover , 45 , and a former top-notch jump jockey , took up training relatively late in his racing career . |
| 7 | Lord Aldington , 75 and a former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party , is an ex-chairman of the Sun Alliance Insurance Group . |
| 8 | Sir John Cuckney is chairman of 3i Group plc and Royal Insurance plc and a former chairman of Westland Group plc ; deputy chairman of TI Group plc ; a director of Brixton Estate plc and a former director of Midland Bank plc . |
| 9 | Sir John Cuckney is chairman of 3i Group plc and Royal Insurance plc and a former chairman of Westland Group plc ; deputy chairman of TI Group plc ; a director of Brixton Estate plc and a former director of Midland Bank plc . |
| 10 | That was conceded in an interview yesterday by Dr Kenneth Abrahams , a member of the National Front and a former Swapo man who was thrown into jail by Mr Nujoma . |
| 11 | Above us in the branches , dangled the flag of the National Patriotic Front , an alliance led by an ex-Maoist , Moses Katjiuongua , and a former white MP , Eben van Zyl . |
| 12 | The congregation of 1,500 was led by the Duke of Edinburgh , the Prime Minister , Mr Neil Kinnock , leader of the Labour Party , Tom King , Defence Secretary , and senior military personnel , including Lt-Gen Sir Steuart Pringle , retired Commandant General of the Royal Marines and a former victim of an IRA bomb . |
| 13 | A member of the Union for French Democracy and a former friend of the Le Pen family , Mr Jacques Dominati , told fellow centrist MPs that the National Front was ‘ an extremely dangerous party . |
| 14 | Mr Clark will be succeeded by Mr David Davies , who is currently deputy chairman of Charter Consolidated and a former chief executive of merchant bank Hill Samuel , now owned by TSB . |
| 15 | Announcing the result of the ballot after a general management committee meeting , the constituency secretary , Mrs Mary Whitehouse , said Dr Gilbert , who is 62 and a former defence minister , had polled 62 per cent of the votes cast . |
| 16 | And a former deputy head of the Office of Population , Censuses and Surveys , Mr Philip Redfern , trenchantly criticised his erstwhile colleagues for lacking the openness and courage to swim against the political tide . |
| 17 | Mr Clark will be succeeded by Mr David Davies , who is currently deputy chairman of Charter Consolidated and a former chief executive of merchant bank Hill Samuel , now owned by TSB . |
| 18 | Mr Jeffrey Record , a military analyst at the Hudson Institute and a former aide to the Senate Armed Services Committee chairman , Mr Sam Nunn , said it was likely to take months to rebuild the PDF into a military institution capable of supporting rather than threatening the new civilian government . |
| 19 | Carl Lewis , the American 100 metres and long jump Olympic champion , has filed a £120 million libel suit against the West German magazine Stern and a former team-mate , Darrell Robinson , a 400 metres runner , for a story which alleged Lewis used steroids to improve his performances . |
| 20 | Bosnia 's new president , Alija Izetbegovic , a devout Muslim and a former political prisoner , has already had exploratory talks with Croat , Serb and Slovene leaders . |
| 21 | Its supervisory board is headed by Deutsche 's boss , Hilmar Kopper , and a former head of Continental , Helmut Werner , sits on Daimler 's management board , a second-tier of executive directors that actually runs the giant industrial firm . |
| 22 | Michel Noir , the dashing young mayor of Lyons , and Michèle Barzach , an ex-minister of health and a former protégée of Jacques Chirac , the RPR leader , are standing for re-election as independents against official RPR candidates . |
| 23 | As for possible Christian Democratic rivals to Mr Kohl , there is only one : Wolfgang Schäuble , the interior minister and a former head of the chancellery . |
| 24 | German reunification sees Soviet soldiers selling up and moving out , unemployed Vietnamese victimised by Neo Nazi football hooligans and a former secret police training centre transformed into an art house . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | John de Neville , an important English baron and a former Chief Justice of the Forest , who held for life the wardenship of the forests between Oxford and Stamford bridges , was convicted of grave offences , amerced in the enormous sum of 2,000 marks , and deprived of his wardenship , which Passelewe in 1246 secured for himself . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . |
| 28 | AS AN actuary and a former journalist Mr Short is factual , reliable , and readable . |
| 29 | The Conservative establishment at Westminster — the 1922 Committee — is promoting Sir Giles Shaw , MP for Pudsey and a former Industry Minister . |
| 30 | Robert Lion , general manager of the powerful state-owned investment bank Caisse des Depots et Consignations and a former head of the prime minister 's office , represented the French government in its investment in 27½ p.c. of la Grande Arche . |