Example sentences of "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 | Among those on board with him are a nurse , an ex-policeman and a former Navy diver . |
| 3 | In January ETA " itinerant commandos " had killed three soldiers , a policeman and a former government minister in four attacks in Barcelona , Bilbao and Valencia . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 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 | Lord Aldington , 75 and a former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party , is an ex-chairman of the Sun Alliance Insurance Group . |
| 8 | Others implicated in the coup attempt included Assadullah Sarwari , the Afghan ambassador to South Yemen ( and a former Deputy Premier and head of the country 's secret police ) , and Pacha Gol Watadar , a former minister who had defected to the mujaheddin in 1989 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The Prime Minister 's office quashed suggestions that Mrs Hogg , the wife of Mr Douglas Hogg , Foreign Office Minister , and a former Economics Editor of The Daily Telegraph , might be leaving No 10 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The report was prepared by Benjamin Alexander , a former senior US government official and a former university president who was trained as a chemist . |
| 15 | The announcement was made after magistrates in Osaka arrested Onoue and a former branch manager at Tokyo Shinkin , Tomomi Maekawa . |
| 16 | The money will go to the Motor Neurone Disease Association , which was represented at the event by executive committee member Mike Hawley , himself a sufferer from the fatal muscle-wasting disease and a former head postmaster in Southend . |
| 17 | Three days later Balwant Singh , a leader of the Akali Dal ( Badal ) and a former state Finance Minister , was shot dead near Chandigarh , the state capital . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The film actor Richard Todd also was made OBE , as was an ITN cameraman , Nigel Thomson , twice wounded while working last year , and a former England cricket manager , Micky Stewart . |
| 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 | The umpires are calling for their new chairman to be Roy Kerslake , a Taunton lawyer and a former Somerset cricketer . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Stewart , who 's 32 , and a former care assitant at the school , is the first member of staff to appear in court . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The case was first argued in December 1895 before seven members of the House of Lords including Lord Chancellor Halsbury , and a former Lord Chancellor , Herschell . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Two former deputy ministers , Thongsouk Saisangkhi and Latsami Khamphoui , and a former Justice Ministry official were arrested in October for " activities aimed at overthrowing the regime " , as reported by the Lao news agency . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | A key suspect and witness was Yannis Mantzouranis , legal adviser to Koskotas and a former Cabinet aide to Papandreou . |