Example sentences of "by [adj] member [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They remained in occupation until 16 October 1979 , immediately after the coup against Romero , when the factory warehouse was burnt down by the company and the women dislodged by armed members of the Treasury Police . |
| 2 | The organization , claiming 5,000 members , had in March established an unofficial curfew in white suburbs , which were patrolled by armed members of the BV , allegedly in an attempt to reduce crime . |
| 3 | This may not always be straightforward since , although there may be a majority decision , the reasoning used by each member of the majority may differ . |
| 4 | Firstly , all equipment should be bought and owned by specific members of the band , and all purchase invoices should be kept . |
| 5 | Coins may also be found and reported on a casual basis by interested members of the public or systematically searched out by treasure hunters with metal detectors . |
| 6 | In some senses the short-term aims were realized by some members of the Humanities department . |
| 7 | It 's a form of liberal scapegoating no less wrongheaded that ‘ reasoning ’ ( engaged in by some members of the Press ) which converts every black boy into a mugger . |
| 8 | McKean also got his tactics right on the track , even if later , when he should have been on the victory rostrum , he got ‘ boxed in ’ by some members of the press . |
| 9 | But there always remains still one point of complaint by some members of the public , that is that the grass that 's cut does tend to blow about , but if the cutting is frequent , there 's less grass t to blow about at a given time . |
| 10 | I read that 10 players had threatened to ask for transfers if I stayed on … they were supposed to be polled by telephone by some members of the Board . |
| 11 | There was also , at least initially , an understandable reluctance to pursue the matter by some members of the community because the tannery is a large employer in an area of consistently high unemployment . |
| 12 | He was seen by members of the panel ( and by some members of the Project Coordinating Team ) as something of an expert in the area of study skills . |
| 13 | The unique nature of Piffetti 's pieces , their present scarcity and the fact that the Ashburton piece was unknown and unpublished until the present sale should all have contributed to its chances , and the final figure of £700,000 ( $1.27 million , to a private Italian buyer ) was felt by some members of the trade to be low : ‘ It 's a bargain : a jewel-like piece of furniture . |
| 14 | The previous ball had been stopped just short of the boundary by some members of the crowd who had engulfed the pitch . |
| 15 | It was reflected in the expressions used by some members of the RUC ( ‘ OK , let's hit the streets and do it to them before they do it to us ’ , ‘ This is where the law stops and I take over , sucker ’ , the reference to probationary police as ‘ rookies ’ and to bullets as ‘ slugs ’ ) , their dress ( mirror sunglasses , blue jeans , and white T-shirt , sometimes with the Miami-Vice parallel reinforced by the words being printed on the T-shirt ) , and other ephemera ( the engraving of ‘ San Quentin' on the keys to the cells , jumping through the enquiry room window rather than using the door ) . |
| 16 | The House always appreciates the close interest which you , Mr. Speaker , take in Adjournment debates initiated by hon. Members on the Back Benches , but you will have an even greater personal interest than usual in this debate . |
| 17 | In the United Kingdom , for example , the peerage began seriously to take up directorships of commercial companies in the 1880s : by 1896 directorships were held by 167 members of the House of Lords . |
| 18 | The part will be taken by another member of the company . ’ |
| 19 | In the case of consolidated financial statements the term includes capital instruments issued by subsidiaries except those which are held by another member of the group that is included in the consolidation . |
| 20 | Branson was warned by another member of the party that this would not go down well and , sure enough , was told by the butler the following morning that he was no longer welcome . |
| 21 | Someone will reach for a tin of fish-paste only to be brought up short by another member of the party reminding them that fish-paste is unclean , while someone else may get as far as the checkout with a year 's supply of baked beans , when , across the crowded shelves of the supermarket , comes a voice reminding them of the danger they are facing . |
| 22 | His tale was verified by another member of the party Hawick 's B international hooker Jim Hay , who recounted that his fellow Teri , Jim Renwick , had been so intent on chasing and tackling the electrifyingly quick Eric Rush that he had failed to notice a helicopter land on the pitch and it was only when they felt the down-draft from the rotor blades that they put on the anchors . |
| 23 | TWO dozen people are grunting , straining and tearing away at heads and arms — watched by another member of the Judo Club . |
| 24 | This point was echoed by another member of the TAC , Bernard Chambers of Booth White , who said : ‘ Insolvencies often arise from cash-flow problems caused by late-paying customers . |
| 25 | We 've got a painting of Parsons here somewhere , a miniature done by another member of the club called Peter Lens . |
| 26 | She may be able to work different hours for a period of time while her burden is shared by another member of the family or a neighbour . |
| 27 | One in five appellants had made some attempt to obtain advice prior to the hearing , but only one in eight appellants is represented by an expert , as distinct from being accompanied by another member of the family or a friend without expert knowledge . |
| 28 | Women had all the constraints of family life to cope with ; children at school , shopping and housekeeping , but no sympathy was expressed by male members of the group as to the comparative hardness of the women 's lives in terms of demands on them , such as few hours of sleep . |
| 29 | Price fixing ( Geis 1967 ; Smith 1961 ) and illegal monopoly pricing ( Klass 1975 ) both mean that customers pay more than they would under competitive conditions ; bribing corrupt officials ( Braithwaite 1979b ; Jacoby , Nehemlis , and Ells 1977 ) may mean reducing competitors ' profit margins or even driving them into bankruptcy ; illegal mergers and take-overs and other shady financial manoeuvres may result in many shareholders being defrauded ( Hopkins 1980b ) ; misleading advertising as well as trimming production costs may result in customers buying goods whose quality fails totally to match manufacturers ' glossy claims , thus leaving a swindled consumer population ( Moffit 1976 ) ; corporate tax evasion and avoidance may mean more average taxes paid by individual members of the public ( Vanick 1977 ) . |
| 30 | Finally , subscribers will be relieved to know that this work is done at minimal cost to the Bar — all the work is done pro bono by individual members of the Bar in their own time . |