Example sentences of "member [prep] [art] [adj] professions " in BNC.
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1 | However , the backgrounds and training of the members of the two professions do not naturally encourage mutual understanding ; and their commercial interests often lead them to compete with each other . |
2 | The Act which followed the report ( 1981 ) was seen by parents , by teachers and by members of the caring professions as marking the beginning of a new , radical approach to the way in which society responded to the needs of the handicapped child . |
3 | The top 150 families of Bordeaux in 1848 included ninety businessmen ( merchants , bankers , shopowners , etc. , though in this town as yet few industrialists ) , forty-five owners of property and rentiers and fifteen members of the liberal professions , which were , of course , in those days , varieties of private enterprise . |
4 | Another 15–25 per cent consisted of practising members of the liberal professions , i.e. lawyers — though 50 per cent of all members had law degrees , this being the standard educational qualification for public life and administration in most countries . |
5 | Referring to it as an artificial " pampered velveteen system " , the union journal was scathing about its " pretentions " : The small office in Edinburgh called the Caledonian Press … was opened a year ago , under the patronage of many of the nobility and members of the learned professions : yet with all its boasting about promoting the employment of women … and opening up a fresh field … to the " surplus female population " … it actually employs fewer women than any simple respectable milliner , of whose philanthropy the world takes little note . |
6 | The international managerial bourgeoisie , of which I made some conceptual criticisms above , is defined as : ‘ a socially comprehensive category , encompassing the entrepreneurial elite , managers of firms , senior state functionaries , leading politicians , members of the learned professions , and persons of similar standing in all spheres of society ’ ( Becker and Sklar , 1987 , p.7 ) . |
7 | And there will be less obvious incentives : the connections between members of the medical professions and nursing homes , to take but one highly emotive example . |
8 | Only the member of the liberal professions , or the artist and intellectual who was not essentially an employer or someone with subordinates , was not primarily a ‘ master ’ . |