Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] member [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The school was divided into Upper and Lower boys , and the Lower boys in each house fagged for members of the Library : they cooked their tea , ran errands for them , being sent perhaps as far as Windsor to fetch a cake from Fuller 's teashop , and they had to come at once when someone in the Library shouted " Boy ! " , the last arrival being given the job . |
| 2 | We monitored them for a period of about twelve months before we reported to members on the outcome . |
| 3 | The announcement yesterday came after members of the Rail Maritime and Transport union voted heavily in favour of industrial action over the threat of compulsory job losses . |
| 4 | The music came from members of the school orchestra who , with Erika on the flute , were rehearsing the ‘ Musical Offering ’ by Bach , an unusual piece as it was Bach 's only work written for five instruments . |
| 5 | The uninformed criticism of the narrow-minded , whether it came from members of the cooking profession or from old-fashioned gourmets among his own colleagues , did not worry Dr de Pomiane one jot . |
| 6 | The poems appealed to members of the Church of England by their reverence for holy places , holy offices and seasons ; but they were also admired by Puritans and Nonconformists for their praise of the Scriptures and for their portrayal of a soul reasoning with , and even wrestling with , its Maker . |
| 7 | In addition , some services were shared under special arrangements ( for example , education in inner London was made the responsibility of the Inner London Education Authority which initially consisted of members of the GLC from inner London plus a representative from each of the inner London boroughs ) , while others continue to be the sole responsibility of special agencies ( the Metropolitan Police , for instance , answers directly to the Home Secretary ) . |
| 8 | To publish falsely , of an Irish priest , that he informed on members of the IRA is not defamatory : it may cause him to be executed by terrorists , but the law offers him no way of securing a correction . |
| 9 | But there is no doubt that the real organizational flair , the risk-taking , and the shrewd perception of the profit opportunities in catering belonged to members of the Salmon and Gluckstein families , and the real power in the company lay with them . |
| 10 | Before he was murdered on 24 March 1980 , Romero made two fundamental statements : he declared that the church supported the legitimate right to insurrectional violence against a dictatorship in August 1979 and , only a day before he was shot dead while holding a mass in San Salvador , he called on members of the army and security forces to refrain from shooting if it ran contrary to their conscience . |
| 11 | In addition to the many personal representation made to members of the council on the subject of fox hunting on county council land , the county secretary has now received a total of two hundred and six written representations nearly as many as me . |
| 12 | Following talks between President Kravchuk and Rukh leader Vyacheslav Chornovil , the key posts of First Deputy Prime Minister and Economics Minister went to members of the opposition organization , respectively Igor Yukhnovsky and Viktor Pendzenik . |
| 13 | It was interpreted by most commentators as being indicative of the concern felt by members of the House ( all of whom faced re-election in November ) over the level of public anger arising from the enormous cost of the S&L rescue operation , currently estimated to have exceeded $88,000 million . |
| 14 | Peter Maunder had some answers to this tropical question when he spoke to members of the Alton Horticultural Society . |
| 15 | The second unpopular feature of the system arose from the different attention doctors gave to members of the state scheme compared with their private patients , often even segregated in different waiting rooms . |
| 16 | It swiftly transpired that the document handed to the fathers for discussion was not that drawn up by the Preparatory Commission , but one revised by members of the Commission who were also members of the curia . |
| 17 | I do not dissent from much of what the hon. Member for Wakefield said about members of the Prison Officers Association . |
| 18 | Some clambered aboard helicopters crewed by members of the RAF 's special forces . |