Example sentences of "its members " in BNC.

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1 Its members will help Amnesty with specialist knowledge of military experience and expertise ( in the same way that the Lawyers ' Group and the Medical Groups function in their specialist fields ) .
2 In some cases of ‘ disappearance ’ the whole family is held responsible for the ‘ crime ’ of one of its members .
3 Nor did they plan portfolios of prints , as Die Brücke did ; a practice , by the way , followed by a variety of artists ' organisations including the Senefelder Group in England , which has sold its members ' lithographs from the nineteenth century to the present day .
4 The church was acting on behalf of all , and had a prime obligation to push for a public morality which matched its perception of the natural law lest the very fabric of society be torn asunder and its members cast on the road of moral decline .
5 Association director Richard Insoll warned : ‘ The Wine and Spirit Association will be reviewing this and other instances of apparent abuse of authority by EHOs in order to give its members the best advice .
6 FIPRESCI is a world-wide critics ' organisation which includes most of the leading and distinguished writers on film among its members .
7 Always the demand is for ‘ practical ’ skills , while academic analysis remains a despised pastime , so that even the Superintendents ' Association ( the equivalent of the Police Federation for the lower ranks ) has similarly denied any place for intellectualism for its members .
8 The need to get the retiring member to sign such a document indicates the institutional fear of the outside lying behind the threats which Sir Peter Imbert issued to those who would write controversial memoirs ( Police Review , 26 August 1988 ) ; for the ‘ family ’ demands silence unto death from its members !
9 Tel ( 021 ) 711 1343 ) has a code of practice for funeral directors which it encourages its members to display .
10 The Association of British Insurers , Aldermary House , 10–15 Queen Street , London , EC4N 1TT , Tel. 071–248 4477 , is a trade Association for insurance companies which can provide information about its members .
11 ASLEF called out its members on a strike , described by Sir Peter Parker as ‘ deplorable and shameful ’ , from 3 July .
12 He tricks its members into thinking they are part of a revolutionary network extending across Russia , and at the local level he generates pseudo-purposeful activities which culminate in Shatov 's murder .
13 In those discussions BIIBA claims that it was agreed that its members would be allowed to renew their existing policies up to 31 October 1990 .
14 A misunderstanding then seems to have occurred with Fimbra writing to its members last week saying that its scheme had not been altered in any way and that members could not renew existing policies if the renewal date was after 1990 .
15 Swapo remains the overwhelming favourite to win the United Nations-supervised elections next month , but claims that the organisation has detained and tortured many of its members in Angola and Zambia may deprive it of the two-thirds majority needed to form a government in an independent Namibia without holding another election .
16 Nevertheless , its members were all urged to target MPs and peers - particularly the ‘ waverers ’ — with letters and personalised press releases , issued at the conference .
17 The European Commission is having a hard enough job getting all its members to clear out the same few channels so that Europe can have a paging system which could be used in any of its countries .
18 Its members would prefer the repeal of the blasphemy laws rather than their extension .
19 ‘ A motion has been put forward that the Polish United Workers ’ Party ( the Communist Party ) should … give the right to vote to all of its members .
20 A recent survey conducted by ICSA of its members in management roles , showed that a high proportion served at or near board level .
21 Pressure on the authorities not to send Mr Yang back to China grew on Tuesday when Amnesty International requested all its members telex John Major , the Foreign Secretary , urging him not to allow Mr Yang to be returned ‘ under any circumstances ’ .
22 Actually , not one of its members is a day over 50 ( although all of them are coming close ) but you might reasonably have expected age to leave Daltrey , Townshend , and Entwistle looking worse than well-travelled .
23 But the party 's only contact with its members is the workplace , and after the elections they will be their only source of power .
24 Its members saw it as further evidence of his obsession for being Patrick 's Sacred Keeper , the title of the biography he wrote on the poet in 1979 .
25 After all , he is one of the last survivors of a disappearing people ; he belongs to a tribe whose main characteristic is that its members do not own a television set .
26 Does the Muslim minority here have the right to demand legislative changes to protect the dignity of its members ?
27 The Ogadeni tribe , once the backbone of his army , has deserted him : its members have formed the Somali Patriotic Movement .
28 As long as the latter enjoys only modest powers , the election of its members will not be taken with full seriousness .
29 The original Know Nothing party arose in the 1860s ( its name refers to the fact that it was a secret party and its members , if interrogated , said they knew nothing about it ) .
30 The Ecology Building Society argues that it is recreating the original grass-roots feel of a membership-owned mutual society , and says that it involves its members closely in the development of new savings accounts .
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