Example sentences of "[prep] [be] member [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Dutch and Belgian police on June 16-19 arrested four people whom they suspected of being members of an IRA active service unit on the continent .
2 Secondly , some members of the Community and some applicants — Ireland and Sweden , for example — would find difficulty in being members of a Community with a defence role .
3 If social anthropologists are sincere when they say that their subject is a kind of micro-sociology and when they proclaim that they no longer feel themselves to be members of a culture/society which is intrinsically " superior " to that of the people they are studying , why do n't they study themselves ?
4 Two days later , fifteen MPs were nominated to be members of the Committee .
5 I felt honoured by the kindness of one or two of your congregation , who happen to be members of the committee , in having written to assure me that I would receive a speedy and unanimous Call , if I would only consent to accept it .
6 The Triennial Act 1694 required a new Parliament to be summoned every three years , and in 1701 , the Act of Settlement required all future monarchs to be members of the Church of England .
7 It is envisaged that , if the Friends are willing to help in this way , properly trained volunteers , who would have to be members of the Friends organisation and who would have their approval , could help with special events and special projects , where existing staff do not have sufficient time to carry out the work .
8 The defendants , said in court to be members of the Animal Liberation Front , also face charges in connection with three arson attacks .
9 All were said to be members of the Jihad group behind the assassination of President Anwar Sadat in 1981 .
10 The systems development team will include the chief analyst and the database administrator who are both likely to be members of the systems planning team .
11 I can certainly confirm on the specific point that the hon. Gentleman raised that those workers who work at the Ministry of Defence can continue to be members of the union of their choice .
12 The sequences of rat urinary α 2-globulin ( A2U ) and mouse major urinary protein ( MUP ) show them both to be members of the lipocalin protein family .
13 Those detained in Navarre and said to be members of the Vizcaya commando included two leading members of the local branch of HB , Juan Carlos Pérez Ojuel and Rosa Mari Echave Díaz .
14 Candidates will normally be expected to be members of the professions allied to medicine .
15 A general election was held in May 1987 , in which all candidates were required to be members of the Malawi Congress Party , although voters had a choice of candidate in 69 constituencies .
16 A general election was last held in May 1987 , when voters had a choice of candidates in 69 constituencies , but all candidates were required to be members of the Malawi Congress Party .
17 By virtue of the transfer of cattle the woman 's biological offspring are ordinarily deemed to be members of the descent group of the husband rather than that of the woman 's father ; payment of the cattle makes the children legitimate ; cohabitation alone does not .
18 Ten ministers are known to be members of the Apprentice Boys of Derry .
19 ‘ I now declare you to be members of the Elect to be initiated into the Sacred Ministries at the next Easter Vigil ’
20 According to the police , right-wing students , thought to be members of the AWB , were responsible for the attack .
21 I am s one that has just been recently appointed to one of these er regional ecumenical teams and at a meeting that was held for the three presbytery areas in the sort of west coast of Scotland , around the Greenoch area , erm it was , it became apparent that all these people who are being appointed er through their , their churches are in the main clergy and the convenor of the local committee himself a ruling elder of the Church of Scotland expressed concern about this , that there is no real er and I would just put it to the , to the assembly , there is there is no need for these members to be members of the clergy , in fact it would be good if presbyteries remembered when making a nomination eh that it , er it need n't be , it could be a , a an elder or indeed er a lay person holding no particular office within the church .
22 Both the transferor and Target can then be sold to Newco so as to avoid a charge by virtue of s178(2) or 179(2) , which provide that where two or more " associated companies " cease to be members of the group at the same time there is no deemed disposal and re-acquisition of the assets transferred between them .
23 This section ( 1 ) disqualifies persons in certain trades from acting in any way as a member of a board , ( 2 ) disqualifies a person holding a disqualifying interest in a company from taking part in proceedings in which the company is an applicant or an objector , ( 3 ) disqualifies an employee of a licence holder under the Act , and any person engaged in a business dealing with alcoholic liquor , including the directors , officers and employees of companies engaged in such businesses from acting as a member of a licensing board , ( 4 ) disqualifies a member of a board , who is the owner or tenant of premises , from acting in the granting of a certificate in respect of those premises , ( 5 ) makes it an offence to contravene the section , ( 6 ) declares , subject to the proviso ( that the grant of a new licence is not liable to objection on the ground that one or more of the members of the board who granted it were not qualified to act ) , anything done in contravention of the section void , and ( 7 ) exempts members of a committee to determine the distribution of licences in a new town from disqualification for being members of a board by reason of their membership of the committee .
24 The judgement found that the trade unionists had been penalized for being members of a trade union .
25 They are potentially very dangerous and what we are worried about is members of the public picking them up and taking them home as souvenirs . ’
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