Example sentences of "member [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Society communicates with its members through a number of familiar channels . |
| 2 | However , as the laying-out and preparation of the body was at that time the responsibility of the family , it would appear that the guild limited themselves to three actions : the marshalling of their members to attend , and the selection from that company of those to carry the coffin ( though it would have been a strong guild able to command more than half a dozen of its members during a weekday ) ; to see the coffin safely into the church and to ensure that the burial equipment was in place ; and to attend the full obsequies on the following day , including the funeral feast . |
| 3 | Mr Dinkins was asked if he would follow the example of his predecessor , former Mayor Ed Koch , who planned a dip in a Japanese-style bath together with staff members during a Japan visit . |
| 4 | In a modern industrial society economic goals are divisible , both because an increased standard of living is such a broad goal that success on one front can be presented to the members as a decent reward for abandoning some other aim , and because the economic goals of competing groups can be simultaneously satisfied provided there is economic growth . |
| 5 | When put to the members as a whole ( Extraordinary General Meeting , November 1984 ) , the proposal was lost , failing to secure the 2:1 majority . |
| 6 | She was described by parents and Action Committee members as a hard woman , with no emotion , no compassion . |
| 7 | In practice village elders were usually jointly responsible for the payment of the dues of village members as a whole , and as long as the correct amount was forthcoming , and the village itself reasonably peaceful and law-abiding , the domain authorities tended to concern themselves little with how this was achieved . |
| 8 | Professor Saville has written that the old unions ‘ were able to rely upon the skill of their members as a crucial bargaining weapon ’ but ‘ the new unionists were at all times , even in years of good trade , subject to the pressures of an over-stocked labour market ’ . |
| 9 | We are in the run-up to a general election and every figure that the Secretary of State has produced today has been carefully worked out and planted among Conservative Back-Bench Members as a publicity stunt , just like the patients charter . |
| 10 | For the OECD 's European members as a whole , the projection was for growth of only 1.4 per cent in 1992 and 2.4 per cent in 1993 , with unemployment at 9.3 per cent in both years . |
| 11 | When the Green party was formed 20 years ago , many treated it as a political joke and dismissed its members as a bunch of idealistic hippies . |
| 12 | The reforms met with a mixed reception from unions , which see a register of individual members as a vehicle for democratic involvement of union members . |
| 13 | The EC duns members for a fixed share of their VAT receipts . |
| 14 | But the most annoying aspect of the early period was the lack of real interest shown by our first council members — at times we could n't muster up the required six members for a quorum at the monthly meetings . |
| 15 | The breakaway union is balloting its members for a one-day token strike in protest over the amended pit closure plans . |
| 16 | A referendum held in 1980 rejected the restoration of political parties ( proscribed by the King in 1961 ) but decided in favour of retaining the panchayat system with limited reforms , namely ; ( i ) the election to the Rashtriya Panchayat by universal adult franchise of 112 members for a five-year term ( the remaining 28 members being nominated by the King ) ; and ( ii ) the appointment of the Council of Ministers on the recommendation of the Prime Minister ( elected by the Rashtriya Panchayat ) . |
| 17 | Elections were held on June 17 to choose 60 provincially elected members for a four-year term in the 72-member unicameral National Congress . |
| 18 | The subsequent lengthy coalition negotiations had revealed the preference of some ÖVP members for a coalition with the right-wing Liberal Party ( FPÖ ) , which together had formed the government in 1983-87 . |
| 19 | Over 200 people have become members for a nominal fee , but where are they ? ’ |
| 20 | Whether you prefer to follow Turner , and use the idea of a ‘ liminoid ’ period for those times and situations when only some members of a society pass through the rite of separation , is a matter of personal choice . |
| 21 | They are often most valuable members of a company because of their ability to sink their own personalities in order to play a range of entirely unusual characters such as the comic Alain in La Fille Mal Gardée , the tragic Bratfisch in Mayerling , Kolia , the son , in A Month in the Country and the ridiculous short dancer in Elite Syncopations . |
| 22 | They are , as far as naturalists are aware , the only surviving members of a rapidly dwindling population of a bird the Siberians call the ‘ snow-wreath ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ We are talking about the right to behave as members of a democratic organisation and introduce amendments to our own fundamental policies . |
| 24 | Five members of a policeman 's family , a soldier and an airman were among Monday 's victims . |
| 25 | He was responding to Monday 's claim in the Belfast Irish News that at least three dozen officers were members of a secret ‘ inner circle ’ which had the objects of ‘ removing ’ republican suspects and bringing down the Anglo-Irish agreement . |
| 26 | Members of a group attempting to reach the embassy the night before said policemen had hit them with rubber truncheons and turned them back . |
| 27 | Moreover , the saving and borrowing members of a society stand to make much bigger gains in the case of takeover than the £150 or so of free shares offered in the Abbey flotation . |
| 28 | Policemen and women are members of a close-knit occupational world with a discrete culture and also face a world which has great variability and confusion , and considerable attention has been focused on the cognitive processes , typifications , and recipes they employ to accomplish policing ( for example , see Bittner 1967 , 1980 ; Chatterton 1975 ; Holdaway 1983 ; Manning 1977 ; Policy Studies Institute 1983b ; Reiner 1978 ; Rubinstein 1973 ; Skolnick 1966 ; for a study of police typifications in the United States which has a very odd combination of Schutz 's ideas , symbolic interactionism , and quantitative and mathematical models , see Sykes and Brent 1983 ) . |
| 29 | On the other hand , it seems likely that a positive function in the evolution of human society has been exercised by envy in that it maintained variations of individual behaviour within tolerable bounds and maintained a mutual bond , policed by envy and the fear of envy , between all the differentiated members of a society . |
| 30 | The terms ‘ adequate ’ and ‘ wellbeing ’ , not to mention ‘ standard of living ’ and even ‘ medical care ’ , are purely subjective : to prescribe a ‘ standard adequate for wellbeing ’ is not to interpret a rule ; it is to make an arbitrary decision , and an arbitrary decision about the compulsion to be exerted upon the members of a society . |