Example sentences of "a [det] us " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Bush , a former US diplomat in Beijing , has countered by hinting that when his traducers were fully acquainted with the facts , his actions would be justified — and typically he has been angered by the ‘ personal ’ nature of the criticism . |
| 2 | If the Cubans and Nicaraguans become his primary support groups , it will be a very bad situation , ’ Mr Andy Messing , a former US Special Forces officer who trained in Panama , said yesterday . |
| 3 | IBM lawyers had an impressive record in winning anti-trust cases ; and IBM 's general counsel Nicholas Katzenbach ( a former US Attorney-General ) maintained that winning record in this case . |
| 4 | The first Westerner to enter Basra was a former US Attorney General , Ramsay Clark — a veteran anti-war campaigner — who toured the city on Feb. 5-6 , and described what he saw there as " a human and civilian tragedy " . |
| 5 | On Oct. 13 Cyrus Vance , a former US Secretary of State , arrived in Yugoslavia in the capacity of a UN special envoy . |
| 6 | In future there would be ( i ) one political department covering Africa , Asia and the Middle East — headed by James Jonah ( Sierra Leone ) ; ( ii ) one political department covering Europe , Latin America , disarmament , the General Assembly and the Security Council — headed by Vladimir Petrovsky ( a former Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister ) ; ( iii ) peacekeeping operations — headed by Marrack Goulding ( United Kingdom ) ; ( iv ) a single economic department — headed by Ji Chaozhu ( China ) ; ( v ) legal affairs — headed by Carl-August Fleischhauer ( Germany ) ; ( vi ) disaster relief — headed by Jan Eliasson ( Sweden ) ; ( vii ) information — headed by Eugeniusz Wyzner ( Poland ) , and ( viii ) administration and budget — headed by Dick Thornburgh ( a former US Attorney General ) . |
| 7 | The rebels claimed that Drown , a former US Army officer , was assisting the Philippines military in its counterinsurgency campaign , an assertion denied by the US and Philippine authorities . |
| 8 | On Aug. 26 Edward Lee Howard , a former US Central Investigations Agency ( CIA ) agent who defected to the Soviet Union in 1985 , was refused permission to settle in Sweden on the grounds that he was a security risk . |
| 9 | Robert Oakley , a former US ambassador to Somalia appointed to negotiate with Somali factions , relief organizations and UN representatives , had reportedly warned the main Somali leaders in Mogadishu-Gen . |
| 10 | It highlights the plight of the Marshall Islands , a former US trust territory which is now independent . |