Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [adv] member " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Minister 's choice was based upon an examination of the Registers of Exchequer , by which it appeared ‘ that the owners of much of the greater part of the property in the district interest themselves for Mr. Lapslie ’ , who accordingly obtained the presentation regardless of the fact that two of Lapslie 's supporters were not members of the Church of Scotland . |
| 2 | Actually , a curious discovery is how many scribes and illuminators were still members of religious orders , even after the thirteenth century when book production had largely become a secular enterprise . |
| 3 | An instruction was issued by the Seamen 's Union that members were not to engage on ships whose captain and officers were not members of the Certificated Officers ' Union and any doubts among the majority of shipowners that a national organisation of employers was necessary to protect their interests disappeared . |
| 4 | belonged to the T.G.W.U. and the Lewis dockers were also members of it . |
| 5 | Judicial officials at lower levels were normally members of the civil service . |
| 6 | Indeed , the opposite was frequently nearer the truth , for their leaders were often members of the lower nobility , driven to making war in this way by economic factors and , in some cases , by being younger sons with little hope of inheritance . |
| 7 | She had quickly joined the emigration society of which her cousins were already members , and it had been agreed that she should count as part of their family . |
| 8 | ‘ But the Dharjees were once members of the Nizari Ismailis , who are themselves a breakaway sect of the Shiite Muslims . |
| 9 | Eleven of the 23 government members were either members of , or proposed by , the PLA . |
| 10 | As Lexandro donned a cuirass and strapped greaves to his shanks , he wondered whether their soon-to-be opponents were genuinely members of some feral tribe transported here for purposes such as this ? |
| 11 | Headmasters were always members of the council , in those days , and they were always tended to be La Liberal or Labour , which I the present Labour would say was very pale pink . |
| 12 | Such incidents were highly embarrassing to the union , and it was a relief on some occasions to record that the offenders were not members , but had been supplied by the Shipping Federation . |
| 13 | Mr Hanley added that as part-time soldiers were also members of the local community with civilian jobs , their daily movements were predictable , making them vulnerable to terrorist attack . |
| 14 | On March 29 the second-in-command of the National Front for the Liberation of Chad ( Frolinat ) , Mahamat Djerma , claimed that Frolinat had on Feb. 2 been dissolved , and that its militants were now members of a new political party , the National Union . |
| 15 | Gorbachev , Yanayev and the presidents of the autonomous republics were also members of the Federation Council . |