Example sentences of "[prep] member of [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | My daughter was intrigued by the statue-like posture of members of the Household Guards who stood at strategic points en route , not moving an eyelid . |
2 | Moreover , the great majority of members of the fishing communities of the United Kingdom were either not affected by the Act at all or severely disadvantaged by it . |
3 | The targeting of the security forces by Republican paramilitaries is reflected in a rise in the number of members of the security forces killed as a proportion of total deaths . |
4 | For example , deaths of members of the security forces were 54 per cent of total fatalities in 1985 , compared to only 18 per cent in 1976 . |
5 | A DP statement on Nov. 26 had listed key demands as the bringing forward of elections from May-June to February 1992 , the resumption of trials of members of the security forces for the killing of pro-democracy demonstrators in Shkodër before the April elections , the removal of SPA members from key positions in Albanian Radio and Televison ( RTV — ibid. ) , and the arrest of former communist leaders ( " blockmen " ) who were accused of abuse of power . |
6 | The bill , put forward on de Klerk 's initiative and covering the crimes of members of the security forces and the police as well as political prisoners , had been described during the parliamentary debate as a " charter for crooks , criminals and assassins " . |
7 | Her actions were typical of a growing number of members of the security forces and prison service who take advantage of the availability of firearms to commit suicide . |
8 | I do not wish to know how to bring up my children , what view to have about drug addicts , how much Shakespeare should be taught in comprehensive schools or how much I must marvel at the achievements of members of the Commonwealth countries . |
9 | In recent months the guerrillas had waged a successful assassination campaign against members of the security forces — including the June 11 killing of Col. Saturnino Dumlao , one of the highest-ranking victims of the guerrilla war — and against US personnel . |
10 | Sporadic attacks by small armed groups continued , meanwhile , against members of the security forces . |
11 | The development of the project has involved close collaboration with members of the partner institutes and the joint specification of aims , objectives and methodology facilitated by preparatory funding from the ESRC . |
12 | After the previous year saw a fall in the number of cases involving disputes with members of the Investment Managers Regulatory Organisation handled by the Investment Ombudsman , the number increased by over 50 per cent in 1992/3 according to his annual report . |
13 | I do not dissent from much of what the hon. Member for Wakefield said about members of the Prison Officers Association . |
14 | The Art Show , the prestigious New York fair for members of the Art Dealers ' Association of America , gets close attention from market watchers . |
15 | We all know how difficult it is for members of the security forces and their families , and we should now be aware that they are at risk all the time . |
16 | Otherwise we are going to develop two legal systems — one for ordinary people that skimps and a superior one for members of the security forces where money is no object . ’ |
17 | The government also abandoned its attempts to link the release of political prisoners with a general amnesty for members of the security forces and SAP and for other state officials [ see p. 39037 ] . |
18 | ARMY spy Brian Nelson has been interviewed again by top cop John Stevens , who headed an investigation into alleged collusion between members of the security forces and loyalist paramilitaries . |
19 | Chief Constable Sir Hugh Annesley ordered a top level investigation into the allegations of systematic collusion between members of the security forces and Loyalist paramilitaries contained in the Dispatches programme broadcast 18 months ago while Mr Brooke was the Secretary of State . |
20 | The West Belfast MP is also concerned about alleged links between members of the security forces and loyalist terrorists . |
21 | The government had shown restraint in respect of the re-contras , who numbered several hundred , had mobilized in March in the mountains of the northern province of Jinotega , and had initiated attacks in June on rural settlements and on members of the security forces [ see pp. 38282-83 ] . |
22 | In his letter McGlinchey claimed he was wrongly blamed for removing files on members of the security forces from the company 's Ballymena branch . |
23 | I regret that we hear continual attacks on members of the Prison Officers Association . |
24 | Subsequently sir Arthur Norman , the WWF chairman in Britain , and Peter Palmer , the coordinator of the fund 's international tropical forests campaign , showed a draft of a WWF advertisement for the tropical forest campaign to members of the hardwood importers group ( NHIS ) . |
25 | We are particularly grateful to members of the undergraduate years 1965 , who responded to the Librarian 's appeal for items to display at the Gaudy in June , and to Nina Bawden ( Mabey , 1943 ) who has supplied us with a complete set of her novels . |
26 | One statistic disclosed by the Ukrainian officials at a press conference on the impact of the accident is that deaths among members of the emergency services involved in decontamination work are three to five times above the rates for people of equivalent age . |
27 | A CLAMPDOWN on the circulation of photographs of IRA suspects among members of the security forces was brought into operation secretly last year , official sources in Belfast said yesterday , writes David McKittrick . |
28 | Its bombs almost invariably devastate towns and property where Protestants are in the majority and its shootings are directed at members of the security forces , who are mainly Protestant . |
29 | Both Sebokeng inquiries exposed a pattern of unlawful behaviour by members of the security forces and lend weight to allegations of unprovoked use of lethal force by security forces , like in Daveytown on 24 March when 12 members of the ANC were shot dead by the police . |
30 | Thousands of people have ‘ disappeared ’ or been extrajudicially executed after being abducted by members of the security forces . |