Example sentences of "of its [adj] members " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of its 450 members , 162 last month signed a letter arguing that for the time being Ukraine should hold on to its nuclear weapons . |
| 2 | After a politburo meeting on Aug. 2 , it was reported that 21 of its 26 members favoured abandoning the controversial proposals , preferring to see ZANU use its current huge parliamentary majority — it held 116 of the 150 seats — to push through policies to combat the country 's pressing economic problems . |
| 3 | The chantry system was not introduced into the Anglican Communion until 1873 when three laymen of the parish of St James , Hatcham , formed the Guild of All Souls , whose objective was to maintain intercessory prayers for the dying and the repose of the souls of its deceased members and all the faithful departed . |
| 4 | One of its surviving members , Joe Hulme , wrote in the Arsenal programme in 1974 : |
| 5 | Most of its present members are over 60 . |
| 6 | It is understood Mr Large proposes effectively to dismantle the SIB 's own role as a self-regulatory organisation by delegating the policing of its 70-odd members — which include the life operations of several banks and building societies — to the proposed new super-regulator , the Personal Investment Authority . |
| 7 | Not only was the Institute 's working party on small company audits unrepresentative ( seven of its eight members were in practice ) , but the subsequent circulation of and debate on the consultation paper has been concentrated mainly on practising members . |
| 8 | The Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front ( Frente Patriótico Manuel Rodríguez — FPMR ) said that one of its former members had carried out the killing , and 13 people were subsequently arrested . |
| 9 | THE IRA murdered a man it said was one of its former members yesterday and claimed he was a police informer . |
| 10 | combining abilities : committees enable the differing skills of its various members to be brought together to deal with a problem . |
| 11 | Humans are human because they share with others a common culture , a culture which includes not only the artefacts of its living members but also those of members of past generations . |
| 12 | As Professor Wedderburn has observed , the result of this decision could be that where an association of employers is fighting off a trade union , it may be able to ‘ keep its smaller members in the front line and avoid any of its bigger members being parties to the dispute ’ . |
| 13 | The EBRD , whose creation had been agreed in principle at the EC Strasbourg summit in December 1989 [ see pp. 37132 ; 37196 ] , would become operational once two-thirds of its 42 members had ratified their signature of its charter . |
| 14 | In a recent survey , the IoD found that 43% of its female members were childless . |
| 15 | However , the new central committee , enlarged to 267 members , retained almost all of its current members and in addition returned a number of hardliners who had been prominent during the rule of President Boumedienne ( 1965-78 ) . |
| 16 | Rousseau , who was an incurable romantic , wanted to preserve the community of innocent and primitive social life , but wanted the community to take precedence over the rights of its individual members . |
| 17 | Also present were legal representatives of the RRA and for one of its individual members , Edward O'Callaghan , who lived nearest to the proposed dump . |
| 18 | In the meantime , the war gave chances to show the responsible nature of the party through its collective action in parliament , through the restraint of its leaders and through the patriotic actions of its individual members . |
| 19 | This interpretation was supported by the fact that a committee which might consist of only a few members could not , however honest and conscientious , assess impartially the value of its work or that of its individual members . |
| 20 | On Nov. 23 the party announced that 12,500 of its 48,000,000 members had been expelled in 1989 , largely for corruption . |
| 21 | Perhaps it is right that the official institutions of a community should express moral judgements on behalf of its law-abiding members — but why should it have to take form of punishment ? |
| 22 | What progress has the human family made in the last two decades towards fulfilling the basic needs of its poorest members ? |
| 23 | Most of its 3,000 members are Anglicans and many of them work in the field of church music . |
| 24 | On the list of its early members are such notable names as Robert Boyle , popularly remembered now for his work on the expansion of gases , Christopher Wren , the architect of St Paul 's Cathedral , John Evelyn , the diarist , John Locke ( who will be the subject of the next chapter of this book ) , Robert Hooke , remembered now for his work on elasticity , and , perhaps the most famous of all , Isaac Newton . |
| 25 | A new tractor was bought in 1957 , the first for 30 years , and in the same year the Club lost one of its early members when E.A. ( Ted ) Batt died . |
| 26 | We had encountered suggestions , in Prieuré de Sion sources , that certain of its early members , and of their offshoot , the Knights Templar , had established contact with certain Essene/Zadokite/Nazarean sects still in existence during the time of the Crusades , more than a thousand years after Jesus 's era . |
| 27 | content with the policy of the Communist Party and its tactics in the United Front had grown in the ILP to an extent which caused many of its remaining members to adopt the theoretical arguments of Trotskyism while resenting its organized activities . |
| 28 | The source says : ‘ She went on to say that she had done more for the Royal Family than any of its other members . |
| 29 | Cranmer demanded a commission of inquiry ; the King appointed him chairman of this commission and entrusted him , despite his protests that this was unfair , with the selection of its other members . |
| 30 | In a burst of well-timed ecumenism , Sparc International and a number of its key members have thrown their combined weight behind Unix System V.4 in an effort to build bigger application muscle . |