Example sentences of "was a member [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Margaret Wynne Nevinson , an active feminist , who was a member of a school management committee for twenty-five years and who also served as a Poor Law Guardian , found her fellow male Guardians actively hostile . |
2 | Now , he was a member of a church where Christ had liberated everyone , to be equal in His sight . |
3 | Under section 265 the English court has jurisdiction , for example , over a debtor who is a foreign national who has never lived or been here so long as , at a time within the last three years , he was a member of a firm which carried on business in this country . |
4 | Almost everyone there was a member of a guild , and since the population can hardly have exceeded 1,000 some people must have belonged to several . |
5 | Everyone pretended to ignore the reaction of the surveyors to the fact that the senior administrative member of Rostov 's staff was a member of a race which could be expected to have little respect for the Imperial establishment . |
6 | Aspiring model Alexa Hamley , 22 , was a member of a jury about to return a verdict in a trial when Paul Powell , 21 , whistled at her in Cardiff Crown Court . |
7 | My best memory when I was at Primary School was that I was a member of a Gymnastics club and for many weeks we rehearsed our routine to do in front of the school and parents . |
8 | It would appear from Donoghue v. Stevenson and Australian Knitting Mills Ltd. v. Grant [ 1936 ] A.C. 85 that it would be immaterial whether at the time of fault the victim was in existence or not , so long as the victim was a member of a class which might reasonably and probably be affected by the act of carelessness . |
9 | Modern society , he said , no longer required either the nineteenth-century intellectual or the ‘ perfect individual ’ of German classicism , but rather the citizen who was a member of a community , and whose education had turned him into a ‘ social being ’ . |
10 | The visionary at Much Wenlock was a member of a community founded , according to its own tradition , by Mildburh , daughter of Merewalh and a princess of the Magonsaete . |
11 | From the age of thirty , according to Foxe , he devoted his whole mind to the study of religion and he was a member of a group which included Tyndale , Coverdale and Latimer who met to discuss the writings of Luther and other Reformers at the White Horse Inn in Cambridge . |
12 | Prof Donaldson was a member of a number of bodies including the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland ; the Scottish Records Advisory Council ; Scottish Church History Society ; Scottish Record Society and the Stair Society . |
13 | Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope ( 1820–87 ) was a member of a family of connoisseurs , collectors and patrons , whose wealth derived from the family banking business in Amsterdam . |
14 | George Herbert was a member of a family which had come over with William the Conqueror and had a long tradition of service to the Crown . |
15 | , Robert ( 1639–1720 ) , mason and architect , was baptized in June 1639 at Raunds , Northamptonshire , the son of Edward and Mary Grumbold , and was a member of a family of masons originating at the quarry villages of Raunds and Weldon which was active in the Northamptonshire area over several generations . |
16 | His sister married a butcher who was a member of a family which kept a shop as a front for dealing in stolen goods . |
17 | Abdulrahman was a member of a lineage which had a reputation for learning , and hence was vulnerable to arguments that his children ( he had one son and six daughters ) should go to school . |
18 | In brief , in 1615 Andrewes was a member of a commission appointed to consider the request of Lady Essex for an annulment of her marriage on the grounds that it had never been consummated . |
19 | Poindexter kept in his study a poster with the words ‘ Blessed are the Peacemakers ’ though possibly it had been put there by his minister-wife ; North was a member of an officers ' prayer group that prayed regularly for peace , particularly in the Gulf . |
20 | His sister was a member of an Order in Scotland and his five brothers , all senior to him , were scattered in various parts of Britain and America , and so the little village had nothing left to hold him . |
21 | As an illustration of what I mean , two years ago I was a member of an IBM audience listening to just such a presentation from an " expert " from another well known company in the electronics industry . |
22 | He would also go to Tangier to be close to his friend , the Hon George Borwick , who was married to a South African diamond multi-millionairess and was a member of the baking powder business . |
23 | We know that he was a member of the Greater London council , and there are plenty of things that he could talk about . |
24 | According to the US State Department Atta was a member of the Abu Nidal Organization . |
25 | Bill Booth and Ann George also acted as moderators and Paul Bentley , leader of the Barlaston mill and sliphouse circle , was a member of the panel discussion team . |
26 | He was a member of the Howie Committee on the future provision for S5 and S6 in secondary schools and David also played a part in the development of educational programmes on television in Scotland and Zambia . |
27 | Some of them would be outraged We certainly know that one of them was convinced by Jesus , Joseph of Arimathea was a member of the Sanhedrin and you know that , that later on we 're told of Joseph of Arimathea , but what did he do Michael do you know , does anybody know what Joseph of Arimathea did ? |
28 | Daine was a member of the Cicero Club . |
29 | Nguyen Ha Phan , 58 , was the mayor of Hau Giang ; Hong Ha , 63 , was the director of the office of the party central committee ; Nguyen Dinh Tu , 59 , was a member of the State Council and director of the National Institute of Atomic Energy ; Trong My Hoa , 46 , was vice-president of the Vietnam Women 's Union and the first woman to reach the party 's upper echelons ; Do Quang Thang , 64 , was secretary of Quang Ngai province party committee . |
30 | ‘ Your husband was a member of the Legion , was he not ? ’ she greeted Lucille . |