Example sentences of "had [adj] [adj] members " in BNC.
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| 1 | The health-care task force , which is due to deliver its report to the president any day now , has outdone all previous committees on every imaginable measure : size ( it had 500 full-time members and innumerable hangers-on ) , complexity ( it was divided into 15 ‘ cluster groups ’ and 34 working groups ) , rigour ( the heads of the working-groups are now having their work reassessed by ‘ auditors ’ and ‘ contrarians ’ ) ; and , not least , ambition . |
| 2 | The new central committee had 55 full members and four alternate members ( the previous committee had 51 full and nine alternate members ) . |
| 3 | He was far from being a recluse , however , for in 1842 he joined the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society , which at the time had many eminent members . |
| 4 | He had gone on trial on July 24 , charged with leading a raid by Pamyat militants on a meeting of the reformist writers ' group Aprel ( which had many Jewish members ) at a Writer 's Union building in Moscow on Jan. 18 . |
| 5 | Very briefly , they discovered that public sector boards were smaller on average , had more part-time members , had a broader membership background ; members had a shorter length of service , held fewer outside appointments and were paid less than private sector boards . |
| 6 | The Labour benches had several new members and , dare I suggest , green Councillor , with no memory of the disastrous economic policies of the last Labour Government , or the ensuing distress that it 's huge army of unemployed . |
| 7 | — The hon. Gentleman is making the political point that if the SNP had 72 Scottish Members of Parliament as he posits , sovereignty would remain with the House , but the House would conclude that the Act of Union was no longer sustainable . |
| 8 | Though small in numbers , the ILP had four vociferous Members of Parliament who were assured a hearing in the House and in the country . |
| 9 | In this period , however , by far the largest occupational scheme was the independently organized Durham Miners Permanent Relief Society , originating in the 1860s , which by the 1890s had 140,000 contributing members and 4,000 pensions being paid out . |