Example sentences of "[subord] [num] member [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police in Egypt arrested more than 800 members of a group called Vanguards of the New Holy Struggle . |
| 2 | Yesterday 's statement was agreed by more than 30 members of the securities industry and drawn up by Terry Pearson , senior securities adviser at the Royal Bank , after securities specialists met on Tuesday to find a practical replacement for Taurus . |
| 3 | Is the Secretary of State aware that the management of the Albacom factory in Dundee are taking advantage of the circumstances of mass unemployment by sacking more than 100 members of the work force for the crime of taking industrial action , within the terms of the Government 's employment laws ? |
| 4 | ‘ Since we last fought in 1987 I can report that Darlington is in better shape , ’ he told more than 100 members of the Darlington Conservative Association at his adoption meeting . |
| 5 | No fewer than 39,000 members of the Merchant Service lost their lives in the Second World War , many of them in the Western Approaches , yet they are invariably overshadowed by their more glamorous allies in the Royal Navy . |
| 6 | The measure was followed by the arrest of more than 50 members of the MQM , including its vice-president Salim Shahzad , the seizure of illegal arms caches , and the uncovering of " chambers " allegedly used by the MQM to torture its opponents . |
| 7 | More than 160 members of the security forces were said to have been killed since February . |
| 8 | Africa Confidential of June 14 said that although 13 members of the government were Issaqs , its membership was " carefully balanced " between the main Issaq sub-clans and other clans ; the delay in appointing the government underlined the lack of agreement over the secession among SNM leaders , some of whom regarded the measure not as final but as merely a " step towards renegotiating the 1960 unification and redressing an unequal relationship " . |
| 9 | In January 1936 he lectured in Dublin and when in June of the same year he agreed to read poetry at Sylvia Beach 's bookshop in Paris ( he was in that city for a four-day visit ) she described it as an " historic event " although one member of the audience on that occasion remembered how he did not once glance at his listeners , but seemed " fiercely defensive " and turned the pages with a " look very near distaste " : his profile was " like a bird of prey of some sort " . |
| 10 | More importantly it has been shown that an indistinguishable stain of H pylori as assessed by its DNA fingerprint , is present in the gastric mucosa of more than one member of a family group . |
| 11 | More than 60 members of the murder inquiry team toured licensed premises to speak to customers and ask licensees to display posters inviting anyone who could help to come forward . |
| 12 | More than 60 members of the murder inquiry team toured licensed premises to speak to customers and ask licensees to display posters inviting anyone who could help to come forward . |
| 13 | The Communist Party still had less than 6,000 members at the end of 1934 but the balance within the Left was beginning to move towards it and away from the disintegrating ILP . |
| 14 | More than 200 members of the public packed the main hall at Hambleton Community Centre on Wednesday morning to hear how evidence would be presented at the hearing starting on May 19 . |
| 15 | The key posts of Defence , Foreign Affairs , Interior and State Security remained unchanged , although more than 20 members of the Cabinet were neutral or non-party figures . |
| 16 | He was leading a delegation of remarkable size : no less than seven members of the Cabinet made the six-week trip . |
| 17 | Townsmen in Cornwall , Carew supposed , ‘ conceive themselves an estranged society from the upland dwellers and carry an emulation against them , as if one member of a body could continue this well without a beholdingness to the rest ’ . |
| 18 | In some way we do not fully understand , if one member of the family can do this it releases the energy of the others . |
| 19 | Such an ‘ abuse ’ was exemplified by the courts in Wheeler v. Leicester City Council where the City Council ( which had adopted an anti-apartheid policy ) banned the Leicester Rugby club from using a Council recreation ground because three members of the club had joined an English touring side to South Africa . |
| 20 | The deviance of ‘ mouths ’ was in this instance amplified by direct provocation by the police , in part because one member of the force wanted some ‘ skulls ’ , but also because they were elevated into ‘ gougers ’ : the ‘ lip ’ was typical of that of gougers and they fitted the social class from which gougers come . |
| 21 | In People v. Rosario ( 1961 ) 213 N.Y.S. 2d 448 four members of the Court of Appeals of New York , adopting the view of the United States Supreme Court in Jencks v. United States ( 1957 ) 353 U.S. 657 , ruled that the entire previous statements of prosecution witnesses ought to be shown to defence counsel after the direct examination with a view to his cross-examining those witnesses and attacking their credibility , saying that counsel were best able to decide what use could be made of the statements , whereas three members of the court took a narrower view and , following the line of authority which had hitherto prevailed in New York , held that defence counsel could examine and use only those portions of a statement which , according to the view of the trial judge , contained variances from a witness 's evidence . |
| 22 | When Oh Calcutta ! opened in Stockholm there was more of a stir caused outside the theatre on the first night than on the stage , when six members of the audience turned Up stark naked to take their seats . |
| 23 | The session was reconvened on May 29 , when the vote was delayed once again , for seven hours , as 21 members of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party stormed the podium , seized microphones and disrupted voting . |
| 24 | On Aug. 13 three soldiers and four guerrillas were killed when 50 members of a Hutu opposition group , who had come from a refugee camp in Tanzania , attacked an army barracks at Madamba in the south of the country . |
| 25 | One could argue that , as long as one member of the family attended , the farm would benefit from the course . |
| 26 | The Smiths of Mauchline were the most successful at diversifying and , as one member of the family put it , they produced ‘ every article which you can conceive it possible to make . ’ |
| 27 | As one member of the profession has aptly observed : ‘ It is not too difficult — it does not wrench the mind too painfully — for the historian or the humanist to accept the notion of ‘ living his way ’ into the totality of a culture . |
| 28 | State pensions are considered as earned income for tax purposes ; but there is a special age allowance when one member of a couple is over 65 , ( higher if you are over 80 ) so you wo n't be taxed if the state pension is your only income . |
| 29 | Even when one member of the family takes on the lion 's share of caring , there is no reason why brothers and sisters should not make some contribution . |
| 30 | The Club started some time ago and has had as many as thirty members in the past but now numbers have dwindled to fifteen . |