Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] member [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are also primitive , as they , along with the sturgeons , are the sole surviving members of an order dating back almost 100 million years . |
| 2 | They were outraged at the suggestion , in the grounds of referral , confirmed by remarks made by the Interim Reporter in Orkney , Gordon Sloan , on 6 March that further members of the community were involved in the alleged abuse ring . |
| 3 | Although hon. Members representing Ulster voiced different shades of opinion , they reached a common conclusion with the Liberal Democrat and Labour hon. Members in the Committee that they were opposed to the order . |
| 4 | I note his comments about the representation of Scottish Labour Members on the Standing Committee , but that is a matter not for me , but for the Committee of Selection , which I am sure will hear his words . |
| 5 | Since then 2,082 civilians , 436 soldiers , 188 full-time members of the RUC and 97 Reservists and 197 members of the former Ulster Defence Regiment have died . |
| 6 | Some 429 members of the Kirk 's congregation contributed towards the purchase of the Mace and their names are contained within . |
| 7 | From the 1890s some members of the ILP were actively demanding the ‘ endowment of motherhood ’ ( later known as family allowances ) arguing that regular , unstigmatizing financial support from the state would enable poor mothers to rear healthy children . |
| 8 | She looked exquisite , breakable , so desirable that not a few lustier members of the congregation , whose minds should have been on holier things , found themselves in a sudden , quite ferocious state somewhere between arousal and bewitchment , which could bring any man to his knees . |
| 9 | The Verband fur Deutsche Jugendherbergen ( DJH ) had , by the end of 1929 , some 700 British members including a block membership by the School Journey Association , an organization founded at the turn of the century to assist teachers responsible for taking parties of schoolchildren abroad . |
| 10 | GCHQ began in 1919 as the Government Code and Cipher School ( GCCS ) , picking up the few remaining members of the army and naval teams of codebreakers who had operated in Britain during World War I. A very small team was formed , working on a tiny annual budget in MI6 's offices at 56 Broadway , in London . |
| 11 | The particular rules in question related to advertising and touting and became the focus for the antagonism which some established members of the profession displayed towards the new centres . |
| 12 | This would guarantee " the perfect security of all the principal statesmen in the House from the effects of local or individual prejudices or enmities … [ or ] some accidental offence to a few individual members of a constituency , or some petty and miserable pique " . |
| 13 | What would some dangerous member of the board want with me ? |
| 14 | but on the other of simmering discontent on the part of some prominent members of the town about the School and in particular its Headmaster , into which the Goldsmiths ' Company were dragged as unwilling participants . |
| 15 | The 1978 electoral law provides for the election by the people of each of the 40 traditional chieftaincies ( Tinkhundla ) of two members of an Electoral College ; this elects 40 members of the Assembly and 10 senators ; the King appoints a further 10 members of the Assembly and 10 senators . |
| 16 | In Northern Ireland , where wider cultural values about gender and sex roles are reinforced by common practice , policewomen can be humiliated and face hostility and resentment from some male members of the public who expect to deal with policemen , and normally do . |
| 17 | The speaker is Stephen , another ordinary member of the Church of England . |
| 18 | Another Democratic member of the House , Floyd H. Flake of New York , was indicted on Aug. 2 on 17 charges of conspiracy , fraud and tax evasion arising from the alleged embezzlement of funds from a federally subsidized housing project . |
| 19 | That was a form of punishment reserved for English Tory Members at the time |
| 20 | Present were Mrs Jameson , Mr Bagehot , Ash the poet , without Mrs Ash , who was indisposed , and some younger members of the London University . |
| 21 | Another non-elected member of the Cabinet , Carl Clarke , was hitherto Minister of State for Finance and Foreign Affairs . |
| 22 | A banking scandal developed during March when it was revealed that more than 300 current members of the House of Representatives had abused the House bank by writing cheques which their accounts did not have sufficient funds to honour . |
| 23 | When Johnston joined the republican movement in 1965 , at the invitation of Cathal Goulding , IRA chief of staff , he was probably some distance to the right of some existing members of the movement and he was responsible not so much for leading the movement to the left as for crystallising a more coherent political strategy . |
| 24 | On July 11 another key member of the Cabinet , Defence Secretary Fidel Ramos , submitted his resignation . |
| 25 | In 1782 Warltire was elected one of the first forty-five honorary members of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society , the others including such illustrious men as Antoine Lavoisier , Alessandro Volta , and Benjamin Franklin . |
| 26 | Some non-permanent members of the Council complain that imposing a punitive peace should not be the job of the UN . |
| 27 | Even if you have an accountancy qualification , for example , it may be better to let another qualified member of the profession do work on your behalf while you shift to a non accountancy task . |
| 28 | In the three places of mission there were on aggregate some 2,500 members of the university every night of the week . |
| 29 | Jack Gaster and Dr Cullen , the two leading members , took with them the Poplar , Wood Green and Harrow branches and some 50 members of the Party . |
| 30 | This articular member of the Synbranchidae family is native to most areas of Central and South America , favouring the more tropical regions with temperatures into the high 20s°C . |