Example sentences of "to a member [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ( 2 ) In sections 173 , 174 and 176 above , the expression ‘ approved duty ’ , in relation to a member of a body , means any of the following duties , that is to say — ( a ) attendance at a meeting of the body , or of any of its committees or sub-committees ; ( b ) the doing of any other thing approved by the body , or anything of a class so approved , for the purpose of , or in connection with , the discharge of the functions of the body , or of any of its committees or sub-committees ; , ( c ) where , in pursuance of a duty imposed on or a power granted to the body by any enactment or instrument ( including a Royal Charter ) , he has been appointed by or on the nomination of the body to be a member of some other body prescribed for the purpose of this paragraph ( whether or not that other body falls within any of paragraphs ( ab ) to ( f ) of subsection ( 1 ) above ) , the doing of anything as a member of that other body for the purpose of , or in connection with , the discharge of the functions of that other body .
2 In this case , however , since the post itself was unattractive , it appears that Sim decided against accepting a place which might have necessitated his abandoning his other and more profitable place of procurator-fiscal , for in the end the Duke of Montrose had to give the commission to a member of the burgh council , although subject to recall in the event of any difficulty .
3 In every case , the chair of the committee or subcommittee will go to a member of the majority party ; since the chair has very substantial power in directing how the business is conducted , occupancy of committee and subcommittee chairs is among the most significant roles within Congress .
4 According to a member of the United States delegation , a spirit of economic warfare permeated the conference .
5 The woman took the money — understood to amount to several thousand pounds — to a pre-arranged drop-off point and handed it over to a member of the gang .
6 The question " Were you speaking Patois or English just then ? " will not necessarily make a lot of sense to a member of the London Caribbean community , any more than the questions " Why did you say that in Patois ? " or " How would the effect of that be different if you said it in ordinary English ? " .
7 According to a member of the Speaker 's staff , the Democrats felt that they should ‘ recognize the cataclysmic nature of the 1980 election results .
8 This concluded that the maximum tolerable risk of death to a member of the public from a modern industrial process should be about one chance in 10,000 per annum .
9 Maladministration is not defined , but it is usually taken to mean administrative action ( or inaction ) which has led to unfairness to a member of the public .
10 Minor complaints such as uncivility to a member of the public can be dealt with by a system of informal resolution .
11 Thus it is common ground in the present case that if a manufacturer negligently makes and markets defective goods , for instance a car with defective brakes , or a soothing syrup for babies which is negligently contaminated with corrosive acid , and the defective goods are put on the market and sold to a member of the public , and the predictable accident follows and a young baby is injured , for instance if the baby is a passenger in the car when the brakes fail and the car crashes , or is given the syrup , it is no defence to an action for damages , by or on behalf of the baby , for the manufacturer to prove that the baby was only born after the defective goods had left the manufacturer 's premises or even had passed to the member of the public by purchase from the retailer .
12 That is the position that we have now brought in , as opposed to the original one in the Bill where it would be assessed on the cost to a member of the public .
13 Sometimes a manufacturer sells directly to a member of the public , e.g. by mall order or by door to door salesman .
14 The consultation document , which the HSE sees as a contribution to the debate about the future of the country 's nuclear energy industry , proposes to adopt a risk of death to a member of the public of 1 in 100,000 a year as the benchmark for new nuclear power stations .
15 Well er er as I observe the authorisation card is of general interest to us but it 's not the sort of thing you 're going to produce to a member of the public .
16 to enable the salesperson to obtain a sale immediately ( e.g. a car demonstration drive given to a member of the public ) ; or
17 allocating the change to a member of the Computer Group , scheduling the work , and monitoring the progress of approved changes .
18 Each reported problem will be passed by a Test Manager or the Computer Group Manager to a member of the Computer Group for resolution .
19 The sale , the first to a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) , included the delivery of Mi-17 helicopters , armoured personnel carriers , and equipment for special use by Turkish security forces .
20 Major Kirkwood of Woodbrook , according to a member of the family , always sent for the bone-healer and the vet whenever a horse became lame .
21 The judge can not say them to a member of the family over breakfast , or in a country where the death penalty has been abolished .
22 In addition there will be tax advantages where it may prove possible , for example , for the sub-contractor to offset against income tax telephone charges , rates , heating and lighting , car or van expenses and the payment , say , to a member of the family for the preparation of accounts .
23 Of course , it would be naive to claim that all gifts are made with no thought of any benefit that might accrue to the individual or his or her family at some future time , or to deny that gifts are often a reflection of gratitude for past services rendered to a member of the family or the donor him or herself .
24 In a letter to a member of the group on crime who had expressed an interest in foreign affairs , Heath replied :
25 If you are a hospital patient , or are going into hospital , you should speak to a member of the nursing staff , about the arrangements for you going home .
26 The Ness Co-operative have moved , in nine months , from an attitude of , ‘ They should do it ’ to a conviction of , ‘ We must do it ourselves ’ , and have established a vegetable co-operative , bought a combine harvester , leased an unused schoolhouse garden which they will sponsor as a Job Creation Scheme to be prepared for use as a nursery and demonstration area for horticulture , and intend leasing an entire croft belonging to a member of the Community Association .
27 And , on the other side , one outcome of the Truce of Orléans was that Charles took the abbacy of Ferrières away from Odo and gave it to a member of the community whose chief recommendation ( with still more pull than his fine scholarship ) was a readiness to commit himself to Charles .
28 In 1891 he gained the first Whitworth exhibition awarded to a member of the Horwich Mechanics ' Institute .
29 So far it has been seen that a manager may help the advisers cope with pressure by encouraging social policy work in order to remove persistent client problems ; by training directed at problem management or interview management or by assigning a support role to a member of the team .
30 It is thought to have once belonged to a member of the castle 's guard , and soldiers treat the little dog with much respect , refraining from swearing within its earshot .
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