Example sentences of "[was/were] a member [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | If I were a member of a species , highly evolved and perfectly adapted to a life among craggy rocks , pecking out the odd lamb 's eye , devouring a few mice , picking through a nice gamey carcass occasionally , but mostly just hovering gracefully around on thermals below cliffs , I would take great exception to being described as ‘ just ’ a crow . |
2 | Nevertheless a member , even of a private company , unless he is also a director is not entitled , as he would be if he were a member of a partnership , to inspect the books and records of the company except to the extent that the Act specifically provides . |
3 | But if the murderer were a member of the Lab staff , why should he risk his neck when he must have known that the keys were on Lorrimer ? |
4 | I ask my hon. Friend to reflect that , if Mr. X were a Member of the House , or Mrs. X were a member of the nobility |
5 | If she were a Lady , she would still be referred to as Mrs. X. If the person were a member of the nobility or someone in whom the press had an interest , rumour would start to circulate , and damage could not be avoided . |
6 | ‘ Because you were a member of the Tyrrell Society as well . ’ |
7 | ‘ You could only get in with a pass if you were a member of the project . |
8 | I ask my hon. Friend to reflect that , if Mr. X were a Member of the House , or Mrs. X were a member of the nobility |
9 | ‘ But just think how much more enjoyable your victory would be if you were a member of the family , and it were your family firm ! ’ |
10 | Margaret Wynne Nevinson , an active feminist , who was a member of a school management committee for twenty-five years and who also served as a Poor Law Guardian , found her fellow male Guardians actively hostile . |
11 | Now , he was a member of a church where Christ had liberated everyone , to be equal in His sight . |
12 | Under section 265 the English court has jurisdiction , for example , over a debtor who is a foreign national who has never lived or been here so long as , at a time within the last three years , he was a member of a firm which carried on business in this country . |
13 | Almost everyone there was a member of a guild , and since the population can hardly have exceeded 1,000 some people must have belonged to several . |
14 | Everyone pretended to ignore the reaction of the surveyors to the fact that the senior administrative member of Rostov 's staff was a member of a race which could be expected to have little respect for the Imperial establishment . |
15 | Aspiring model Alexa Hamley , 22 , was a member of a jury about to return a verdict in a trial when Paul Powell , 21 , whistled at her in Cardiff Crown Court . |
16 | My best memory when I was at Primary School was that I was a member of a Gymnastics club and for many weeks we rehearsed our routine to do in front of the school and parents . |
17 | It would appear from Donoghue v. Stevenson and Australian Knitting Mills Ltd. v. Grant [ 1936 ] A.C. 85 that it would be immaterial whether at the time of fault the victim was in existence or not , so long as the victim was a member of a class which might reasonably and probably be affected by the act of carelessness . |
18 | Modern society , he said , no longer required either the nineteenth-century intellectual or the ‘ perfect individual ’ of German classicism , but rather the citizen who was a member of a community , and whose education had turned him into a ‘ social being ’ . |
19 | The visionary at Much Wenlock was a member of a community founded , according to its own tradition , by Mildburh , daughter of Merewalh and a princess of the Magonsaete . |
20 | From the age of thirty , according to Foxe , he devoted his whole mind to the study of religion and he was a member of a group which included Tyndale , Coverdale and Latimer who met to discuss the writings of Luther and other Reformers at the White Horse Inn in Cambridge . |
21 | Prof Donaldson was a member of a number of bodies including the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland ; the Scottish Records Advisory Council ; Scottish Church History Society ; Scottish Record Society and the Stair Society . |
22 | Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope ( 1820–87 ) was a member of a family of connoisseurs , collectors and patrons , whose wealth derived from the family banking business in Amsterdam . |
23 | George Herbert was a member of a family which had come over with William the Conqueror and had a long tradition of service to the Crown . |
24 | , Robert ( 1639–1720 ) , mason and architect , was baptized in June 1639 at Raunds , Northamptonshire , the son of Edward and Mary Grumbold , and was a member of a family of masons originating at the quarry villages of Raunds and Weldon which was active in the Northamptonshire area over several generations . |
25 | His sister married a butcher who was a member of a family which kept a shop as a front for dealing in stolen goods . |
26 | Abdulrahman was a member of a lineage which had a reputation for learning , and hence was vulnerable to arguments that his children ( he had one son and six daughters ) should go to school . |
27 | In brief , in 1615 Andrewes was a member of a commission appointed to consider the request of Lady Essex for an annulment of her marriage on the grounds that it had never been consummated . |
28 | Poindexter kept in his study a poster with the words ‘ Blessed are the Peacemakers ’ though possibly it had been put there by his minister-wife ; North was a member of an officers ' prayer group that prayed regularly for peace , particularly in the Gulf . |
29 | His sister was a member of an Order in Scotland and his five brothers , all senior to him , were scattered in various parts of Britain and America , and so the little village had nothing left to hold him . |
30 | As an illustration of what I mean , two years ago I was a member of an IBM audience listening to just such a presentation from an " expert " from another well known company in the electronics industry . |