Example sentences of "member of the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the 1640s , when he came to political prominence , he was a leading member of the Goldsmiths ' Company and a successful banker and financier . |
| 2 | The best way to find a legal adviser is to ask musicians in other bands , write to the Law society or , if you are a member of the Musicians ' Union , request a list of music business lawyers from the union 's national office . |
| 3 | The seventh member of the Runners ' team is Philip Edwards . |
| 4 | No member of the races of the True People would have involved himself in a plan which necessitated the transportation of a mutant into Kinsai . |
| 5 | He was a slim , spare man in early middle age , and unusually for a member of the races of the True people he had light-coloured hair — the shade of newly sawn wood , Jehan thought . |
| 6 | He was a member of the teams which won in Ohio in 1987 and then tied at the Sutton Coldfield course two years later , and commented : ‘ Playing in the cup is the best thing ever . |
| 7 | He was a member of the embassies to France in 1325–6 , 1331 and 1336 and he used his position as envoy and representative of Edward III to further his book-collecting activities . |
| 8 | I am sure that the reputation of Cleveland Bridge can rely on its postwar achievements as a member of the consortia with Dorman Lond ( B and E ) Ltd , on the Forth and Severn bridges ( with which I was involved ) and its own Humber and Dartford projects . |
| 9 | In 1918–19 he was chairman of the inter-allied conference on standardization of aircraft components and deputy member of the munitions council . |
| 10 | Further privileges lay in store for W. C. T. as a member of the Weavers ' Company — though nearly every entry in his name subsequently is confused by his double Christian names : even the document granting him his Freedom of the City had to insert ‘ William ’ in front of ‘ Charles ’ with a caret mark , and as far as the Weavers were concerned , he was really ‘ Charles William ’ . |
| 11 | Blue Ridge base … on a small patch of land owned by a member of the miners ' union , 40,000 people have called to offer their solidarity since last spring . |
| 12 | One member of the 4-Skins , protesting his innocence of any B.M/N.F involvement to a journalist the next day , told a story which under less dire circumstances could rival the best of Buster Keaton in terms of pathos , slapstick and deadpan gallows humour . |
| 13 | ( ‘ I 'm a member of the Women 's Sportsfighting Club ’ , explains Carri a 17 year old skin from Clapham , ‘ I do wrestling , judo , boxing and sportsfighting . |
| 14 | In the Paratroopers ’ case thirty men were arrested and thirteen paratroopers were actually charged with the rape of a member of the Women 's Royal Army Corps . |
| 15 | She was a founding member of the Women 's Liberal Federation in 1887 , editing their Women 's Gazette and Weekly News from 1889 to 1891 , and of the Women 's National Liberal Federation in 1892 , writing the life of the founder ( Lady Fry of Darlington , 1898 ) . |
| 16 | But by the end of the 1890s , although her work had long been recognized and she had been made a founder-councillor of the London county council in 1899 , Emma Cons was approaching a breakdown caused by overwork , not only at the theatre but in all her other housing and philanthropic efforts ( she was also vice-president of the London Society for Women 's Suffrage , an executive member of the Women 's Liberal Foundations , and a founder of the Women 's Horticultural College at Swanley ) . |
| 17 | Mrs. Layton , a member of the Women 's Cooperative Guild , made the decision to allow her husband the 1/6d to join the Cooperative Society in the first place . |
| 18 | A member of the Women 's Cooperative Guild remembered working as a nursemaid to a doctor 's family at the age of nine in 1867 , and being unable to read or write , could not let her parents know about the unkind treatment she received . |
| 19 | More likely , once established as a member of the literati and the venerable ‘ June 20th Group ’ , she felt a need to stress her difference from them — as if we did n't already know . |
| 20 | Johnson grasped hold of some solitude and became for an hour or so a noble savage and a member of the armies of medieval romance , communing with nature on the bank of a stream : ‘ The day was calm , the air soft , and all was rudeness , silence and solitude . |
| 21 | It can offer something different from both NATO and the European Communities , in the case of the former because it can concentrate on a European rather than a trans-Atlantic perspective , and in the second because since 1973 neutral Ireland has been a member of the Communities . |
| 22 | We seek to be an active and responsible member of the communities in which we trade , and a number of initiatives are made possible by our charities and sponsorship budget of £1.8 million . |
| 23 | At that stage the divisional officer may have taken it away from the domestic scene , and er put it through to Glasgow if it was the , if the employer was a member of the employers ' association , he would then take it to local conference . |
| 24 | The pop star 's revenge , FEARGAL SHARKEY , formerly wobbly-voiced member of THE UNDERTONES who sought the kicks of teenagers , and wobbly-voiced failed solo star who advised listening to dad ( wonder why his career went down the toilet ) , has swapped allegiances and is now A&R man at Polydor . |
| 25 | His membership of the Executive Committee has also included two years as a member of the Managers ' panel , 1989–91 and three years , 1976–79 , as Coleraine Area Secretary . |
| 26 | A batch number is assigned by a member of the Personnel staff to the report and a parameter with this batch number is input into the relevant computer program . |
| 27 | The romance began at the end of last year when our quiet and somewhat serious technical manager started dating a lively , gregarious member of the personnel team . |
| 28 | She was a member of the Geologists ’ Association for sixty-seven years , and latterly its most senior member . |
| 29 | He was a member of the archbishops ' committee on industrial problems ( 1917–18 ) , and in 1927 was the two archbishops ' choice to introduce the revised prayer-book measure in the House of Commons . |
| 30 | On the same day the government of Kirgizstan , a member of the CIS , was polishing plans to replace the rouble with the som , which became the country 's official currency on May 17th . |