Example sentences of "[pron] the member [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Schumpeter called the ‘ classical doctrine ’ of democracy differs in several respects from the theories I have just outlined , one of the crucial differences being that it conceives democracy as a historical movement which aims constantly to extend the area within which the members of a society can govern themselves by participating fully and freely in the regulation of their collective life . |
| 2 | So the bureaucracy ‘ puts itself at the service of the political interests of the hegemonic class ’ ( Poulantzas 1973 , p. 337 ) when the class from which the members of the state apparatus are recruited and the hegemonic class are not one and the same . |
| 3 | In addition to the academic scrutiny which the members of the Plowden committee themselves invited , the new approaches to primary education were increasingly attacked by those who felt that standards were falling as a direct consequence of such change . |
| 4 | However , they all sit together in the same circular chamber which has various doors marked ‘ Clergy Ayes ’ or ‘ Laity Noes ’ through which the members of the Synod troop to vote in the way MPs trudge through their voting lobbies . |
| 5 | Working from original documents , and questioning the reliability of second-hand commentators such as Josephus , Eisenman traces the various names by which the members of the Qumran community — the authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls — referred to themselves . |
| 6 | For many of those who do take the text seriously however , Christian teaching on the subject of wealth is summed up either by one of the easily remembered phrases from the Gospels such as ‘ Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor , and you will have treasure in heaven ’ ( Luke 18:22 ) or ‘ You can not serve God and Mammon ’ ( Luke 16:13 ) or that ‘ It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God ’ ( Luke 18:25 ) or by the way in which the members of the Jerusalem Church as recorded in Acts of the Apostles shared their wealth according to the principle ‘ From each according to his ability , to each according to his need ’ . |
| 7 | The beliefs are seen as influencing , at least in significant part , the behaviour in which the members of the group engage and which distinguishes them from other groups who hold different beliefs . |
| 8 | Clearly the smaller the community , the more notions of regularity will be shared , since the contexts which the members of the community share will be very similar . |
| 9 | ( 4 ) This is a limited disqualification and applies only to the granting of a licence for premises of which the member of the board is owner or tenant . |
| 10 | I would now ask Her Royal Highness as our President to mark this very special award by unveiling our ensign to you the members of the R Y A at this A G M. |
| 11 | In fact what the members of the Committee wished to do was to alter the law , not expressly to encourage or legalise such practices , but to remove them , like adultery and other sins , from the realm of the law . |
| 12 | What the members of the committee have shown is that , when it comes to the environment , Britain 's business community is able to provide clear , vigorous and effective leadership . |
| 13 | The CVR allows the investigator to know what the members of the flight crew were saying to each other , and to some extent what they were thinking , at relevant times during the flight . |