Example sentences of "[verb] [num] member [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The four main states — Andhra Pradesh , Tamil Nadu , Karnataka , and Kerala — between them elect 129 members of the Lok Sabha , the lower house of parliament . |
| 2 | In the bright sunshine each September in central Africa , the ngwazi ( conqueror ) Dr Kamuzu Banda , Life President and over eighty years old , has addressed 20,000 members of the women 's federation of Malawi for no less than three hours . |
| 3 | Shortly after Gunter Krusche , a leading figure in the East Berlin Protestant church , said there were signs that the reformist New Forum would be granted legal status in several regions , police in East Berlin detained 15 members of the group and confiscated papers they were carrying . |
| 4 | IBM Corp 's IBM Personal Computer Co has added two members in the IBM Speech Recognition Family , VoiceType Control for Windows and VoiceType 2 : VoiceType Control for Windows offers customers with an 80386SX processor and up the ability to manipulate the Windows 3.1 environment and existing Windows 3.1 applications with spoken commands such as File Save , Font Bold and Next Window ; VoiceType Control for Windows costs $130 , works with Sound Blaster audio boards , and is speaker-independent ; VoiceType 2 is designed for general dictation and input to MS-DOS applications , and enables users to continue to control their existing applications , such as word processing , databases or spreadsheet , simply by talking ; it comes ready to use with ‘ many popular software products such as Quicken , WordPerfect 5.1 , dBase and more ’ , and users can add their own commands ; VoiceType 2 , with the IBM M-Audio Capture and Playback Adaptor , runs on 80386SX and above personal computers and automatically adapts to a speaker 's unique voice pattern and allows for accents and other individual speech characteristics ; it costs $2,200 and will be available in late May . |
| 5 | Coming in second behind the PDC 's 24 seats , it has 19 members in the Constituent Assembly over which D'Aubuisson now presides . |
| 6 | The group had registered 143,000 members since the split . |
| 7 | The festival attracted 43 members from the Nissan car plant on Tyneside and a further 17 visiting competitors from Scotland . |
| 8 | The JAC membership comprised six members of the education committee , two employers , two trade unionists , two representatives from the ASEA , two persons otherwise interested in juvenile welfare , and a chairman . |
| 9 | He said the United Arab Emirates had revealed six members of the Memon family took a direct Pakistan International Airlines flight from Dubai to Karachi on 17 March , five days after the bombings . |
| 10 | A judicial investigation implicated three members of the Caldas Battalion of the army . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's always been difficult to let people see what the collective living is about ’ , says one member of the site community . |
| 12 | For a start the old problem of slow play reared its ugly head once more , causing one member of the field to suggest that he might switch to a more active sport like angling . |
| 13 | Under its 1949 Basic Law ( Constitution ) , the Federal Republic of Germany ( West Germany ) is a " democratic and social federal state " whose organs are ( i ) the Federal Diet ( Bundestag ) , the lower house of parliament , comprising 497 members elected for a four-year term by a mixed system of proportional representation and direct voting , and 22 members elected by the West Berlin House of Representatives ; ( ii ) the Federal Council ( Bundesrat ) , the upper house of parliament , comprising 41 members of the governments of the Republic 's 10 Länder ( states ) and four representatives appointed by the West Berlin Senate ; ( iii ) the Federal President ( Bundespräsident — currently Richard von Weizsäcker ) elected for a five-year term by the Federal Assembly ( Bundesversammlung ) comprising the members of the Bundestag and an equal number of delegates nominated by the Länder parliaments ; and ( iv ) the federal government ( Bundesregierung ) consisting of the Federal Chancellor ( Bundeskanzler — currently Helmut Kohl ) elected by the Bundestag on the proposal of the Federal President and his or her ministers . |
| 14 | Birlik , which was originally known as the Democratic Party of Uzbekistan , claimed 54,000 members at the end of last year . |
| 15 | Under the 1949 Basic Law the Federal Republic is a " democratic and social federal state " whose organs are : ( i ) the Bundestag ( lower house of parliament ) elected for a four-year term in universal , direct , free and secret elections ; ( ii ) the Bundesrat ( upper house ) , now comprising 65 members of the governments of the Republic 's 16 Länder ( states ) ; ( iii ) the Federal President ( Bundespräsident ) elected for a five-year term by the Federal Assembly ( Bundesversammlung ) , comprising the members of the Bundestag and an equal number of delegates nominated by the Länder parliaments ; ( iv ) the Federal Government ( Bundesregierung ) consisting of the Federal Chancellor ( Bundeskanzler — elected by the Bundestag on the proposal of the Federal President ) , together with his or her ministers ; and ( v ) the Federal Constitutional Court ( Bundesverfassungsgericht ) , whose judges are elected by the Bundestag and Bundesrat to serve 12-year non-renewable terms . |
| 16 | There is also a list of 19 subscribers to the fund for the improvement of farriery which includes four members of the London committee ( Rivers , Long , Penn and Maxwell ) . |
| 17 | An entire production of Strauss 's ‘ Ariadne Auf Naxos ’ had to be cancelled in Rome last month when the management tried to fire seven members of the orchestra and three dancers . |
| 18 | J stands for Johnstone , the family name behind a company which keeps six members of the family gainfully employed . |
| 19 | They recruited 205 members of the public to test new types of toilet seat . |
| 20 | The tape is played over a pair of stereo headphones to the subject who hears one member of the stimulus pair at one ear and the second member of the pair at the opposite ear . |
| 21 | The society also placed advertisements asking for applications to draw on its funds for the purpose of release from debtors ' prisons , and backed this up by sending two members of the committee on a tour of London 's gaols to receive applications and arrange for the release of ‘ the most distressed objects , preferring the most useful Artists and Manufacturers , and those who have the largest families . ’ |
| 22 | We had been looking around for about five minutes or so , when a jeep containing two members of the Guardia Civil ( The National Police ) arrived . |
| 23 | The Amir reappointed the Crown Prince as Prime Minister on Oct. 12 , and on Oct. 17 a new 15-member government was announced which included six members of the Assembly . |
| 24 | On June 27 , the Federal Secretariat for National Defence mobilized 1,990 members of the JNA . |
| 25 | Those arrested in May also included three members of the DC 's national executive ; Sergio Radaelli , the PSI nominee to Cariplo , Milan 's biggest savings bank ; Massimo Ferlini , a PDS member who had previously been public works commissioner for Milan ; and prominent industrialists such as Roberto Schellino , a former technical director of Cogefar-Impresit ( Italy 's leading construction company , which had recently been bought by the motor company Fiat ) and Mario San Vittore Lodigiani , vice-president of the Lodigiani construction company . |
| 26 | Asking one member of the family to describe interactions between other members is one way in and forms a ‘ triadic ’ analysis ( Bowen 1978 ; Coppersmith 1985 ) . |
| 27 | POLICE ARRESTED 28 members of the Ulster Defence Regiment in an unprecedented series of swoops in and around Belfast yesterday . |
| 28 | He actually arrested two members of a Junta . |
| 29 | In addition to FPP members , it included two members of the GVP , one Fijian independent and the MP for Rotuma . |
| 30 | A new five-member board was also appointed which included two members of the opposition CPD alliance , Robert Zahler and Juan Eduardo Herrera , as well as the then Finance Minister , Brig. -Gen . |