Example sentences of "members of [art] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Observers believed that the ruling opened the way for the first prosecution under the UK War Crimes Act approved in May 1991 [ see p. 38219 ] , and that 30 members of a former Lithuanian police battalion living in the UK could soon be charged with the killing of thousands of civilians and Jews in eastern Europe during the Second World War . |
| 2 | Something of the kind seems to have happened in the case of the European communist parties ; thus Santiago Carrillo ( 1977 ) , in the passage quoted earlier , says plainly that ‘ the political system established in Western Europe … is in essentials valid ’ , and this is far removed from the outlook of some earlier Marxists — and of the members of a few left-wing groupuscules even today — who talk about ‘ smashing the bourgeois state ’ . |
| 3 | The members of this new grouping , the Party for the Advancement of Zionist Ideology , were all members of the former Liberal Party . |
| 4 | The SDP had been formed in 1981 with the intention of opening up the centre ground of British party politics [ see pp. 30911-12 ] , but after the Social and Liberal Democratic Party ( SLDP — now termed Liberal Democrats ) was formed in March 1988 combining most members of the former Liberal Party and of the SDP [ see p. 36501 ] , David Owen led the rump as a " continuing " SDP . |
| 5 | The government on July 18 took direct control of the State Property Agency ( SPA ) , whose officials had been members of the former communist government , and a week later announced that the head of the SPA , Istvan Tompe , would be replaced by Lajos Crepi ( former vice-president of the old post office ) . |
| 6 | On Sept. 11 the government announced that nine Kuwaiti members of the former Iraqi-backed regime would not be tried as collaborators . |
| 7 | The HCR was responding to a proposals made on Aug. 26 by a Joint Consultative Commission which comprised members of the former ruling party , the Rassemblement du peuple togolais ( RPT ) , and eight opposition parties . |
| 8 | The trial had begun on Jan. 27 , when the four men had each been charged with " complicity to commit genocide " ( Bobu , Manescu and Dinca in their capacity as members of the former permanent bureau of the Romanian Communist Party executive political committee ( EPC ) and Postelnicu in his capacity as a candidate member of the EPC and former Minister of the Interior ) for failing to oppose at meetings on Dec. 17 and 22 Nicolae Ceausescu 's orders to fire on demonstrators . |
| 9 | The French mercenary leader Bob Denard , who for a brief period had ruled the island with members of the former Presidential Guard following the death of President Abdullah [ see p. 37033 ] , was deported on Dec. 15 , 1989 , initially to South Africa , along with other mercenaries . |
| 10 | Some newcomers have been indifferent to the sensibilities of the local population ; others , as we shall see , have been oversensitive to what they believe the needs of the village to be-In each case the effect has been the same : members of the former occupational community , faced with an invasion of ‘ their ’ village by outsiders , have tended to retreat in upon themselves and form a community within a community , cutting themselves off from the separate world of the newcomers . |
| 11 | It was further reported ( Danas , 10 November 1987 ) that in the first nine months of 1987 there were 17 rapes in Kosovo , every one of which was between two members of the same ethnic group , and that in this period the incidence of rape in Kosovo was lower than in other parts of Yugoslavia . |
| 12 | The risk with other-name information is obvious : a lender knowing that Mr Brown and Mr Robinson have dreadful debt records but that apparently Mr Smith at the same address does not , might suspect that all three are aliases for the same person , or at best members of the same disreputable household , and so may refuse Mr Smith credit — even if in real life all three are quite unconnected . |
| 13 | The Commons motion states that Mr Sainsbury and David Charles Jones are senior partners in the same Cardiff accounting practice and both are members of the same Masonic lodge of which the minister is Chief Steward . |
| 14 | Yel'tsin caused a great deal of concern in this connection by authorising a statement that Russia would not necessarily recognise existing boundaries with states that did not become members of the same political union ; this , at least implicitly , raised issues such as the status of the Crimea , transferred to the Ukraine by Khrushchev in 1954 as a political gesture . |
| 15 | The groups consist of carefully selected members of the same potential market segment or audience to be reached with the advertising , so they are likely to get on together . |
| 16 | As football has become a big-business enterprise in this country , and since the players , who once were seen as members of the same working-class community as the fans themselves , have become rich superstars , the close identity between fans and their team has been eroded . |
| 17 | Even if the wedding were not Jesus 's own , his presence , as well as his mother 's at such an occasion would patently suggest that they were members of the same social caste . |
| 18 | We would not even pass for distant cousins let alone members of the same nuclear family unit . |