Example sentences of "member as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | When put to the members as a whole ( Extraordinary General Meeting , November 1984 ) , the proposal was lost , failing to secure the 2:1 majority . |
| 3 | She was described by parents and Action Committee members as a hard woman , with no emotion , no compassion . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Education had been labelled by some leading party members as the ‘ fifth modernisation ’ ( not democracy as political activists insisted ) , yet the lessons remained traditional . |
| 11 | For Schein , it is ‘ the pattern of basic assumptions that a given group has invented , discovered , or developed , in learning to cope with its problems of external adaptation and internal integration , and that have worked well enough to be considered valid and , therefore , to be taught to new members as the correct way to perceive , think and feel in relation to these problems . ’ |
| 12 | However , it is still regarded by many members as the highlight of the season . |
| 13 | Benevolent societies , even trade unions , arranged to subsidise the emigration of their clients or members as the only practicable means of dealing with pauperism and unemployment . |
| 14 | Morty Bahr , the CWA 's president , has presented the deal to his members as an unprecedented chance for the union to have a hand in corporate decision-making ; he wants the CWA to be a model for other American unions . |
| 15 | It is rather that " social anthropologists have learnt from experience that the totality of the local community is usually treated by its members as an expanded domestic household ; though equally well one might say that a domestic household is treated as a fined down version of the total community . |
| 16 | We have to find a way to utilise our fifty thousand members as an educational and propaganda machine . |
| 17 | They desired Britain as an EEC member as an essential counterbalance . |