Example sentences of "[conj] [num] member [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One presumes and hopes that the Chief Whip informed the Prime Minister , as he was requested to do , that seven or eight members of the Cabinet were opposed to the choice of Home . |
| 2 | ( In England the title Professor is usually reserved for one or two members of a department . |
| 3 | often only one or two members of the band write songs . |
| 4 | Liaison was established with one or two members of the practice staff , usually a general practitioner and a member of the administrative staff , and systems were established to ensure accuracy of information . |
| 5 | And so , for example , a small National Socialist shop was opened in Park Street , Bristol , from which one or two members of the League sold rubber truncheons and daggers , as if arming a great revolutionary force for the day of democracy 's overthrow . |
| 6 | By sunrise , one or two members of the family , having slept on it , start to think , ‘ but I wanted to show ’ , or ‘ 1 wanted to work our new dog ’ and on reading the pup 's ancestry find no track record for either . |
| 7 | WITH Saturn influencing your base in life , it may be that you have not felt out-and-out joy regarding the home itself or your relationship with one or two members of the family for some considerable time . |
| 8 | Police in Egypt arrested more than 800 members of a group called Vanguards of the New Holy Struggle . |
| 9 | By April 24 Tofilau Eti claimed that 30 members of the Fono had pledged support for his administration , while 16 were aligned with the SNDP and one remained an independent . |
| 10 | Yesterday 's statement was agreed by more than 30 members of the securities industry and drawn up by Terry Pearson , senior securities adviser at the Royal Bank , after securities specialists met on Tuesday to find a practical replacement for Taurus . |
| 11 | Is the Secretary of State aware that the management of the Albacom factory in Dundee are taking advantage of the circumstances of mass unemployment by sacking more than 100 members of the work force for the crime of taking industrial action , within the terms of the Government 's employment laws ? |
| 12 | ‘ Since we last fought in 1987 I can report that Darlington is in better shape , ’ he told more than 100 members of the Darlington Conservative Association at his adoption meeting . |
| 13 | The judge found that six members of the management committee , including the appellant and the defendant , resolved to dismiss the plaintiff . |
| 14 | In this context , note that three members of the src family of tyrosine kinases , src , fyn and lck , have been inactivated by homologous recombination in mice , the lck mutation resulting in a thymocyte differentiation defect . |
| 15 | It was reported on Aug. 5 that three members of the opposition had been suspended from the National Parliament only two weeks after being sworn into office . |
| 16 | No fewer than 39,000 members of the Merchant Service lost their lives in the Second World War , many of them in the Western Approaches , yet they are invariably overshadowed by their more glamorous allies in the Royal Navy . |
| 17 | The measure was followed by the arrest of more than 50 members of the MQM , including its vice-president Salim Shahzad , the seizure of illegal arms caches , and the uncovering of " chambers " allegedly used by the MQM to torture its opponents . |
| 18 | More than 160 members of the security forces were said to have been killed since February . |
| 19 | The Iranian Interior Ministry said that 29 members of the Association of Combatant Clergy which , despite its harsh-sounding name , is linked to President Rafsanjani 's cautious opening to the West , were among the 30 highest scoring candidates in Teheran , the largest constituency . |
| 20 | Africa Confidential of June 14 said that although 13 members of the government were Issaqs , its membership was " carefully balanced " between the main Issaq sub-clans and other clans ; the delay in appointing the government underlined the lack of agreement over the secession among SNM leaders , some of whom regarded the measure not as final but as merely a " step towards renegotiating the 1960 unification and redressing an unequal relationship " . |
| 21 | This was despite the fact that one member of the Court of Appeal , Sir Denys Buckley , thought the reasons for the order to be ‘ meagre ’ . |
| 22 | In January 1936 he lectured in Dublin and when in June of the same year he agreed to read poetry at Sylvia Beach 's bookshop in Paris ( he was in that city for a four-day visit ) she described it as an " historic event " although one member of the audience on that occasion remembered how he did not once glance at his listeners , but seemed " fiercely defensive " and turned the pages with a " look very near distaste " : his profile was " like a bird of prey of some sort " . |
| 23 | More importantly it has been shown that an indistinguishable stain of H pylori as assessed by its DNA fingerprint , is present in the gastric mucosa of more than one member of a family group . |
| 24 | On Dec. 19 State President F. W. de Klerk announced that 23 members of the South African Defence Force ( SADF ) , including two generals and four brigadiers , were being compulsorily retired or suspended , following the preliminary findings of an investigation by Lt.-Gen. |
| 25 | More than 60 members of the murder inquiry team toured licensed premises to speak to customers and ask licensees to display posters inviting anyone who could help to come forward . |
| 26 | More than 60 members of the murder inquiry team toured licensed premises to speak to customers and ask licensees to display posters inviting anyone who could help to come forward . |
| 27 | Interior Minister Ismet Sezgin said on June 15 that 6,796 members of the Kurdistan Workers ' Party ( PKK ) had been " captured alive " in the previous seven months . |
| 28 | The first FMLN announcement stated that one of the advisers had died instantly and the others within minutes from their injuries ; however , a further statement on Jan. 9 noted that two members of the unit which brought down the helicopter had been arrested on charges of murdering wounded prisoners of war , and that they would be dealt with according to " war justice " if found guilty . |
| 29 | I noticed , in the afternoon , that two members of the bench had their eyes closed and appeared to be asleep . ’ |
| 30 | The Communist Party still had less than 6,000 members at the end of 1934 but the balance within the Left was beginning to move towards it and away from the disintegrating ILP . |