Example sentences of "by members [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Act which followed the report ( 1981 ) was seen by parents , by teachers and by members of the caring professions as marking the beginning of a new , radical approach to the way in which society responded to the needs of the handicapped child . |
| 2 | Bibit and four companions were believed to have been assisted by members of the Young Officers Union ( YOU ) , a shadowy right-wing military organisation similar to RAM . |
| 3 | Five new proposals were tabled on Dec. 14-15 : by the USA , by the four Nordic countries ( Finland , Iceland , Norway and Sweden-but excluding Denmark as a member of the EC ) , by members of the International Textiles and Clothing Bureau , by the five contracting parties of the Association of South East Asian Nations ( ASEAN-Indonesia , Malaysia , Philippines , Singapore and Thailand , but not Brunei which was not a contracting party although it maintained a de facto application of GATT following its achievement of full independence at the end of 1983 ) , and by Bangladesh on behalf of the LDCs . |
| 4 | The report argues that the drug crisis should not be allowed to obscure a pattern of gross human rights violations committed by members of the armed forces , often working in collusion with alleged drug traffickers , and paramilitary groups acting on their orders . |
| 5 | THE DEATH PENALTY is retained in law in the UK for high treason , various offences committed by members of the armed forces during wartime and , in England and Wales , for piracy with violence . |
| 6 | In I 977 , there was another strike : the day after the workers occupied the factory , they were forcibly evicted by members of the armed forces , the National Guard and the Treasury Police , who used tear-gas bombs against them . |
| 7 | I am afraid that the evidence at the moment is that the game is not sufficiently supported by members of the armed forces . |
| 8 | In a report published on Feb. 5 the human rights organization Amnesty International said that rape by members of the armed forces and police of women and of girls as young as 14 was a " global occurrence " . |
| 9 | The Constitution was endorsed by members of the armed forces , whose votes were counted separately , with over 97 per cent backing the changes . |
| 10 | North-for-President T-shirts were presented by members of the congressional panels to each other , and everyone laughed sportingly . |
| 11 | Communal living has received a great deal of publicity during the last twenty years , partly as the result of the experiments with alternative lifestyles widely advocated by members of the middle classes in the 1960s . |
| 12 | Mr Wright is an accomplished narrative historian and has made very good use of the few surviving scraps of contemporary , or nearly contemporary , accounts written by members of the various civilisations . |
| 13 | The river was still a main means of transport and many dignitaries maintained their own form of floating vehicle such as a large barge rowed by members of the experienced watermen . |
| 14 | Barnes , vice-president and general manager of Philippine Geothermal — a subsidiary of the Union Oil Company of California ( Unocal ) — and director of the American Chamber of Commerce , was believed to have been abducted by members of the Red Scorpions , a breakaway faction from the rebel communist New People 's Army ( NPA ) . |
| 15 | Mohawks on the nearby Kahnawake reservation , joined by members of the militant Warriors Society [ see p. 37448 ] , in solidarity with the Oka action erected barricades on approaches to the main Mercier road bridge spanning the St Lawrence river , forcing commuters to make lengthy detours into Montreal . |
| 16 | The Bahujan Samaj Party ( BSP ) , supported mainly by members of the scheduled castes , won one Lok Sabha seat and nine seats in the Assembly , where it emerged as the second party , having previously held no seats . |
| 17 | The most sophisticated rethinking was undertaken by members of the National Guilds League . |
| 18 | The motto of the new era is ‘ diagnosis prognosticates aetiology ’ , a phrase which is repeated by members of the ruling races in such varied contexts that it becomes evident that no one really bothers to think about it . |
| 19 | This is the first event organised by Network Craigavon and was a co-operative effort by members of the different groups that make up the Network . |
| 20 | In 1917 itself the intelligentsia were swamped by members from the lower classes . |