Example sentences of "member for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today 's meeting , which the club 's bete noire , Geoffrey Boycott , is not expected to attend in his capacity as the member for Wakefield , is an inquest into last summer . |
| 2 | These unfortunate people have more comprehension of the nastiness of the Saddam regime than the member for Northampton North , who gives ‘ rugby spectator ’ as one of his hobbies in Who 's Who . |
| 3 | Stung by comments about his walk-out from the committee meeting at Headingley on Tuesday , the 49-year-old former England opener and member for Wakefield , fired back in a modern hotel on the Wakefield side of the M1 in front of a local television crew , a radio reporter and five Yorkshire-based reporters . |
| 4 | You do n't even have to own a boat as most clubs will let you put your name forward as a crew member for a season . |
| 5 | ( Sillars later married the Scottish Nationalist ex-MP Margo MacDonald and became SNP member for Govan in November 1988 . ) |
| 6 | Nene regular and local matchman Alan Dean , an Oundle team member for five years , has notched up a succession of competition placings on the river , including runner-up this season in the Nene Team Championships . |
| 7 | James Pawsey , the Tory member for Rugby , also appeared to be hopelessly in love . |
| 8 | Robert Hand , a Leicester-based civil servant and Yorkshire member for 10 years , intends to move the vote unless ‘ positive steps are taken to put things right ’ at a meeting of the full committee on November 28 . |
| 9 | This coincided with publication of an altogether different motion ( about closure of the BAT works in Liverpool ) signed by loads of Labour MPs , including the member for Warrington North . |
| 10 | IAN Gow , the Conservative member for Eastbourne , is famed for three things : a doglike devotion to the Prime Minister , a deadpan sense of humour , and his quixotic resignation as housing minister because he disapproved of the Anglo-Irish Agreement . |
| 11 | This caused Sir Giles Shaw , the diminutive member for Pudsey , to rise indignantly to his full five feet or so . |
| 12 | The other is Mr Jerry Hayes , the Conservative member for Harlow . |
| 13 | He came from an ancient Corvedale family , branches of which were in the forefront of Shropshire life during the seventeenth century — Francis 's nephew was a Member for Wenlock in Charles I 's parliament . |
| 14 | In which case the member for Huntingdon could deliver a 1992 budget of generous tax cuts and more spending , with the markets roaring at the prospect of another Tory triumph . |
| 15 | During the 1902 controversy the annual meeting could only muster forty attenders despite the attraction as guest speaker of W. S. Caine , Liberal Member for Camborne . |
| 16 | PROF Raymond Plant , whose work could help to change radically the British constitution if Labour wins the election , has been a Labour Party member for 30 years . |
| 17 | Mrs Lennox said Air Chief Marshal Sir Roger Palin , Air Member for Personnel , told them in a letter last month that their application was ‘ unlikely to succeed ’ before they had even submitted estimates from insurance companies of what their children 's education was likely to cost . |
| 18 | THE Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery , better known as film director Henry Herbert , has found an unusual cast member for a short film about his ancestors . |
| 19 | DUBBED ‘ The Beast of Bolsover ’ , the member for a gritty coalfield constituency is a constant irritant to his party 's front bench , frequently voting according to leftist principles rather than the party line . |
| 20 | PROFESSOR Raymond Plant , whose work could help to change radically the British constitution if Labour wins the election , has been a Labour Party member for 30 years . |
| 21 | For a regiment which has its headquarters at Edinburgh Castle and which recruits its officers largely from the city , the appointment of Rifkind , the member for Edinburgh Pentlands , will do the Royal Scots ' ( motto : No one may touch me with impunity ) case no harm at all . |
| 22 | Mr Nelson , the 43-year old member for Chichester , comes straight into government as the Treasury 's new Economic Secretary with responsibility for keeping Customs and Excise in order , replacing the elevated Gillian Shephard . |
| 23 | Finally , the Churchill patience snapped and , peering over his glasses at the hapless Opposition MP , he retorted : ‘ I am grateful for the opportunity to remind the Honourable Member for Dewsbury what a dirty dog does to a paling . ’ |
| 24 | On receipt of an application from the member for permission to purchase and use these chemicals on the same basis as farmers and commercial growers , supported by the RSC statement , MAFF would issue a licence to do so . |
| 25 | The reason for this is the provision of lifting eyes on the edge of the cross member for lifting by crane or helicopter . |
| 26 | They will sometimes also provide a member of their management team as a co-opted member for the governing body , allowing the manager time to visit during the normal school day so as to develop the strongest possible links . |
| 27 | They use slightly wide shots ; they make much more use of the medium-range shots showing the Members ( or the absence of Members ) around the person speaking ; there are more individual reaction shots ; and they vary the camera angles in ways that minimise the monotony that results from keeping the camera on one member for an extended period . |
| 28 | Winning his seat as Member for Lancaster , he promptly joined the Cameron Highlanders and was unemployed in Cairo when he met Stirling . |
| 29 | From a service-provider ( mainly the development officer for the action sample , or a social services department member for the control sample ) or a near relative or friend . |
| 30 | He first became an MP in 1841 as member for Newark and , apart from a break between 1847 and 1850 , he remained in the Commons until he succeeded as the seventh Duke of Rutland in 1888 . |