Example sentences of "[verb] members [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Registered nurses , midwives and health visitors of the four countries elect members to the National Boards every five years .
2 Yet at the same time as he was representing members of the Cali cartel , Mr Abbell was on Capitol Hill lobbying for changes in the international treaty on extradition which would favour the defendants in such cases .
3 Each party also has members in the Federal National Assembly .
4 The Women 's Corona Society ( see Appendix 4 ) has members throughout the world who both welcome and provide useful information to incoming expatriates ' wives and children .
5 During the Second World War most Italians were interned as enemy aliens , even though they may have been respected members of the community for 30 or 40 years — and even had relatives serving in the British forces .
6 On a number of occasions I found members of the royal household resting .
7 POLICE have applauded members of the public whose information has led to a series of arrests .
8 The course is designed to provide members of the professions allied to medicine with the scientific skills , knowledge and their appliction to relevant clinical practice in their field in order to be better able to evaluate their effectiveness of their contributions to health care services .
9 One important role of such units , is that they provide a safe environment for mentally disturbed people , at the same time in severe cases , protecting members of the community from possible harm as a result of violence to persons or property .
10 ( 3 ) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions , regard may be had to the previous conduct and activities in business or financial matters of the person in question and , in particular , to any evidence that he has — ( a ) committed an offence involving fraud or other dishonesty or violence ; ( b ) contravened any provision made by or under any enactment appearing to the Bank to be designed for protecting members of the public against financial loss due to dishonesty , incompetence or malpractice … ( c ) engaged in any business practices appearing to the Bank to be deceitful or oppressive or otherwise improper ( whether unlawful or not ) or which otherwise reflect discredit on his method of conducting business ; ( d ) engaged in or been associated with any other business practices or otherwise conducted himself in such a way as to cast doubt on his competence and soundness of judgement .
11 When there is a rhythm between experience and insight , between catechesis and liturgy , those who are handicapped in mind and body can grow into contributing members of the community of faith .
12 The police hope such a large sum will tempt members of the criminal faternity to point the finger .
13 Pressure groups that have narrowly lost points or who feel strongly opposed may brief members in the hope that with extra publicity and a show of support from friendly MPs , the government may relent during the passage of the bill .
14 You can say : " I would like to open up this discussion and involve members of the meeting who have not spoken much so far . "
15 The rules and regulations of her domain are established , and woe betide members of the household who break them .
16 If authority in the country depended on the quiescence of almost 4000 qualified electors , then the towns represented the real fiefs of nobility and gentry , often returning members on the basis of a long-departed medieval splendour .
17 THE £116m settlement won by litigating members of the Outhwaite syndicates at Lloyd 's will be paid to the agents of the 817 members and any debts for losses of other syndicates will be deducted before any cash is fowarded to individuals , David Coleridge , chairman of Lloyd 's emphasised yesterday .
18 I mean , you can never trust members of the public ; they are extraordinarily inaccurate in what they claim to remember , but I ca n't discount anything .
19 The Governor of Hong Kong , Sir David Wilson , arrives in Washington on Saturday for a week-long visit , to meet members of the administration and congressional leaders .
20 They were to meet members of the Board of Trade at six o'clock and were scheduled to be available for public questioning at a meeting on the mezzanine floor of the hotel at seven .
21 They were thrilled to meet members of the Kennedy family , Mary Pickford , Charlie Chaplin .
22 In early January the Prime Minister and the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary ( Douglas Hurd ) had each visited the Gulf and surrounding areas : Major on Jan. 6-9 to meet members of the British armed forces and to hold discussions with the Amir of Kuwait , King Fahd of Saudi Arabia and Mubarak , and Hurd on Jan. 10-14 for talks in Bahrain , Qatar , the United Arab Emirates , Jordan and Turkey .
23 Young people were normally allowed many opportunities to meet members of the opposite sex , and though examples can be quoted of disinheritance because parental wishes had not been met , the prime consideration in choosing a wedding partner was undoubtedly mutual love .
24 Well that takes us on nicely to more interviews , this time I 'm coming down to meet members of the audience .
25 It 's an opportunity for the passengers to meet members of the crew .
26 THE Queen made a morale-boosting visit to Northern Ireland yesterday to meet members of the security forces and public .
27 The new chairman of BAIE Scotland , Rosemary Wake , wants members in the region to get to know each other better , for professional as well as social reasons .
28 In recent years , leading nationalist politicians have claimed members of the armed forces have been guilty of ‘ collusion ’ — allowing UVF and UFF gunmen to enter and leave areas without fear of arrest .
29 The precise membership seems never to have been defined , though it has always included members of the county advisory staff , members of the Project Coordinating Team , teachers from project and non-project schools , teachers ' centre wardens , and DCSLs .
30 The 30-member Pakistani delegation , led by the secretary-general of the Pakistan Foreign Office , Akram Zaki , reportedly included members of the army 's Inter-Services Intelligence ( ISI ) , known for its close links to mujaheddin groups , especially the fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami [ see p. 38153 ] .
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