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

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1 Er here erm you can form your own views about whether Mill 's right or wrong , I mean that the situation of a secret ballot was brought in to erm overcome as one where the local industrist industrialist who employed half the member of the town was also standing for parliament .
2 However , Tsar Nicholas II still retained formidable powers — ; an absolute veto on all legislation , full control of foreign affairs , he had emergency powers under Article 87 , and appointed half the members of the state council , which could veto the Duma .
3 How do you bring a group of people together to work on an equal basis when half the members of the group are experienced non-disabled professionals who are used to taking control ?
4 THE Oval Office may be occupied by a self-confessed non-inhaler ; half the members of the cabinet may have marched against the Vietnam war ; and the first and second ladies may spend their spare time grooving to the Grateful Dead .
5 This question is best answered by the remarks of the hon. Member for Islington , North , who courageously and clearly articulated the views of , I suspect , more than half the Members on the Opposition Benches .
6 This has two aspects : that all the members of a group were obliged to join in the fighting or threats ; and that there was some automatic trigger contained in the genealogy which determined the number of the combatants .
7 Instead information is being collected on the background and activities of all the members of a number of the quasi-groups who make up the core fans .
8 Some modern firms of accountants number hundreds of partners , and their appointment as arbitrators would be inconsistent with the concept of all the members of a tribunal playing a full role by , for instance , attending the hearing .
9 In many respects this was a return to the position of the very last years of the fourth century ; the establishment of arian kingdoms on Gallic soil had removed from the catholic bishops sole authority over the definition of the Christian community , and it was only the conversion of Clovis and the expansion of the Frankish kingdom which gave the ecclesiastical hierarchy the authority once more to define the Christian life for all the members of the State .
10 If we tried to describe a theory of legislation sufficiently uncontroversial to command close to universal assent among our lawyers and judges , we would be limited to something like this : if the words of a statute admit of only one meaning , no matter in what context they are uttered , and if we have no reason to doubt that this is the meaning understood by all the legislators who voted for or against the statute or abstained , and the statute so understood achieves no results not intended by all those who voted for it and would be so understood by all the members of the public to whom it is addressed , and could not be thought by any sensible person To violate any of the substantive or procedural constraints of the Constitution , or otherwise offend any widely held view about fairness or efficiency in legislation , then the propositions contained in that statute , understood in that way , are part of the community 's law .
11 Even with evidence for the level of wealth in each building , this could imply that the village society was led by a single chief , who lived in the biggest house in the centre of the village , or that the village was run by a council of all the members of the village , who built a large central hall in which to hold their meetings .
12 ‘ Income ’ for the purpose of this figure was was calculated as the sum of the net ( after tax ) incomes from all sources for all the members of the household .
13 Virtually all the members of the South Wales Area of the NUM had obeyed the strike call when it had gone out in 1984 .
14 SCOTVEC gratefully acknowledges the work of all the members of the module writing teams and the team coordinators in the development of the new Sciences modules and the work of and of the Scottish Further Education Unit in the preparation of this document .
15 Whenever I could , I went out , armed with my expensive binoculars , to see what I could find in the fields or to observe the coastal birds — puffins , with the splendid red , yellow and blue bills which they shed when the mating season is over ; cormorants nesting in colonies on ledges in the cliffs ; screeching gannets and all the members of the gull family .
16 Secondly I did write to all the members of the Council about the issue of the British National Corpus and their desire to have a record of English as she is spoke and their is a gentleman from here today , if you would care to stand up to identify yourself please .
17 Some countries — such as France — see EMU as a way of winning back some power from the West Germans , since a European central bank would mean all the members of the EC having a say in how policy is conducted .
18 All the members of the EC except Britain and Denmark have voted to ratify the treaty ( although in Germany the president 's signature has been held up by challenges in the constitutional court ) .
19 If someone from Faraj comes to blows with someone from Fadhil , all the members of the groups descended from Muhammad should unite against all those descended from Mahmud .
20 Not all the members of the Church welcomed the instantaneousness of resignation and appointment .
21 We have invited all the members of the CIS to open full diplomatic relations .
22 As Captain of Stoddard Golf Club , I would like to thank all the members of the committee who have worked so hard to make it such a memorable year .
23 THE string orchestra , as we have said , consists of all the members of the violin family — violins , divided into firsts and seconds , violas , cellos , and double basses .
24 Their games are , in fact , nothing more or less than a rehearsal prior to the performance of the activities which are the serious business of all the members of the Gikuyu tribe .
25 It aims to involve all the members of the hospital — doctors , nurses , ancillary staff and the patients themselves — in the healing process .
26 To avoid unnecessary disputes , draw up a list of equipment and its owners so that it can be agreed by all the members of the band .
27 And generally it is the case that the personal security of the part-time reserve police is most at risk of all the members of the RUC , because of the difficulties of maintaining three identities ( police officer , member of family and neighbourhood network , and employee ) , with their associated and sometimes conflicting modes of discourse and thinking .
28 For now , our thanks are due to all the members of the quality improvement teams , their leaders and all who assisted them in their goal of improving the quality of the way we conduct our business .
29 Yes sure I 've actually got erm a list here of erm all , all the members of the club .
30 All the members of the colony continually exchange food and saliva with one another .
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