Example sentences of "an [adj] member [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Chairman Sir Norman Fowler said : ‘ He has been an outstanding member of the Government for a number of years . |
2 | So Gilly was an elder of the church , an upstanding member of the community . |
3 | Leota , aged 25 , was an exciting member of the party though his Test contribution was restricted to an appearance as substitute . |
4 | Present at that meeting was Walid Maroni , officially an Iraqi member of the UN press corps , who told them that his government was prepared to support the CLAO financially as well as in other ways . |
5 | At this moment an English member of the community went mad . |
6 | Whether an individual member of the class can sue depends upon the size of the class and the nature of the comment : there must be something in the circumstances to make the ordinary reader feel that the plaintiff personally is the target of the criticism . |
7 | A fortiori , the interest of an individual member of the group did not constitute such an interest . |
8 | ‘ Most churches are completely unprepared for the shock of finding an established member of the congregation is infected with HIV or dying with AIDS , even though this is increasingly common . ’ |
9 | The Development Manager will allocate the work to an appropriate member of the development team . |
10 | I was an ordinary member of the Council for that , I had done me two years Chairmanship , and here again , I was naughty really , considered naughty . |
11 | So , for example , it may be that a keen walker would have a special interest in a stretch of country where he or she frequently walked which would entitle him or her to challenge a decision to grant planning permission to develop it , whereas an ordinary member of the public or even of some environmental group in a different area might not have . |
12 | Following a visit to Ingrow on August 11th this year and reading of reduced membership and escalating costs at the Bahamas Locomotive Society , I wrote the following day , as an ordinary member of the public , to their Secretary with the ‘ bare bones ’ of a suggestion for raising funds . |
13 | This was to have been changed by clause 54(4) under which the benefit received was to be assessed at the arm 's length price which an ordinary member of the public would have paid for that service . |
14 | Buying privately means if you buy from an ordinary member of the public not a shop . |
15 | Where you 're not buying from a trader , you 're buying from an ordinary member of the public . |
16 | I worked regular hours as an ordinary member of the crew but fed with the officers ; the food was substantial and good . |
17 | We do try not to use er the disabled sticker if it 's at all possible , because we actually want to behave just as anyone else behaves , in a , just an ordinary member of the community , and so do the children . |
18 | Join The Women 's Press Bookclub as an annual member on the coupon below and receive a free copy of Not A Man To Match Her : A Feminist View of Britain 's First Woman Prime Minister by Wendy Webster ( The Women 's Press , £6.95 ) . |
19 | Abraham was an early member of the BDDA , and at the time of his attack on the leadership he was Superintendent of the Bolton , Bury and Rochdale Society . |
20 | The death has occurred of Mack Price , who with his wife Sheila was an early member of the BCRS . |
21 | The professor will be qualified for election as an official member of the board of the faculty ( which has final authority over the proceedings of its sub-faculties ) , and will be expected to serve from time to time on the various standing and ad hoc committees appointed by the board . |
22 | It is also nice to be an official member of the club . |
23 | To find some meaning for the Lady of Light , a feminine version of light and an equal member of a set of nine archetypes , I think it is necessary to veer away from speculations about the ultimate nature of light , and look instead at specific qualities that she may embody . |
24 | ‘ What is very important is to turn the screw on Iran , to make it clear to Iran that if it wants to be treated as an equal member of the community of nations , it has to stop trying to murder their citizens . |
25 | ‘ I see my role as being a catalyst for change , for getting the job done , so that means working as an integral member of the production team : joining the morning production meeting and taking my turn on the duty rota . ’ |
26 | an existing member of the company making the offer or invitation ; |
27 | A John Benet , very probably the same man , was listed in 1448–9 as an existing member of the confraternity of St Nicholas , the London guild of parish clerks , to which several known composers and their wives belonged ; his wife , Agnes , is also named . |
28 | A new head of History had been appointed for next term to release the pastoral coordinator from a ‘ caretaker ’ role as head of History , a scale 3 second in department for English had been appointed by promoting an existing member of the department and an early retirement application had been granted . |
29 | The Lord Chancellor began with the complacent and highly debatable observation that ‘ we are likely … to get a better assessment of the qualities of some eminent judge of the past through an existing member of the judiciary than from anyone else ’ . |
30 | He very quickly became an invaluable member of the organisation and after two years I made him manager . |