Example sentences of "[adj] member [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked exquisite , breakable , so desirable that not a few lustier members of the congregation , whose minds should have been on holier things , found themselves in a sudden , quite ferocious state somewhere between arousal and bewitchment , which could bring any man to his knees . |
| 2 | Coins may also be found and reported on a casual basis by interested members of the public or systematically searched out by treasure hunters with metal detectors . |
| 3 | But the main features of the system must be comprehensible to those Members of Parliament and councillors who are not specialists and to serious commentators and interested members of the public . |
| 4 | It is important that the branch broadcasts clearly visible messages which advertise interested members of the public of the existence of CPRW and the work it is doing . |
| 5 | When the house of childhood does not serve as a place of support and nurture , when there is intense conflict between different members of the household , then we may find that many memories of indoors have been suppressed . |
| 6 | It would certainly include : the physical lay-out of the houses we live in and of the settlements of which they form a part ; the general pattern of conventional procedures by which foodstuffs and other necessities of life are produced and distributed and finally consumed ; the way children are brought up ; the way tasks are allocated to different members of the household ; the ideas we have about the nature of reality and of the cosmos , our sense of what is the proper way to behave towards kin and neighbours and persons in authority ; the kinds of clothes and the styles of language which are appropriate to different occasions , etc . |
| 7 | The view of the state described by Musgrave is that of the public sector as a ‘ household ’ , with different members of the household assigned different tasks . |
| 8 | planning applications and er er items relating to Poor Lane , er and also the traffic on Station Road later on , er I think it 's rather complicated to talk about all of these at at one go , because I know er different members of the public have come for different reasons and perhaps , for the moment , I 'll not ask for any comments about Mr Smith 's proposals on Poor Lane , er nor er comments about Station Road , er but I will ask you if you want to refer to planning applications , er we have three planning applications , one is to extend the car park behind the pub , one is for a change of plan to one of the houses on the development adjacent to us , er and the third one is er er the plans submitted by Grant Development at Thorney , erm , I suspect most comments will be about the last , er perhaps I should ask first if anybody wants to make any comments about proposals behind the reindeer in , or at Chapel cottage site , does anybody , er in the public want to mention those erm , well we will go on to the one at Thorney then , and you 're Mr Walker ? |
| 9 | As a family 's income rose , so the cash aid was withdrawn at different rates for different members of the sample . |
| 10 | This includes agreeing on the order in which different members of the panel will question the candidate and allotting the interview time between them ; |
| 11 | The old Welsh laws , dating from the middle of the tenth century , make it clear that the oxen were not to be used in the afternoon ; and as Seebohm points out a cyvar ( or co-ploughing , where different people contributed different members of the ox-team and the plough itself ) ended at noon . |
| 12 | The number of fully established senses is presumably finite at any one time ( though it may differ for different members of the language community , and at different times for the same speaker ) . |
| 13 | These cells are classified into about 210 ( according to taste ) different kinds , all built by the same set of genes but with different members of the set of genes turned on in different kinds of cells . |
| 14 | It is important to remember that patients need some information about the different members of the health care team so that they can relate satisfactorily to them . |
| 15 | In St. George 's there seemed to be a fair amount of disparity between the assessment approaches of different members of the department . |
| 16 | Of all the music business agreements artists are likely to sign ( with the possible exception of the agreement between the different members of the band ) , the management/artist relationship is a contract for services at its most personal . |
| 17 | In the United Kingdom , for example , the peerage began seriously to take up directorships of commercial companies in the 1880s : by 1896 directorships were held by 167 members of the House of Lords . |
| 18 | He argued against the view that the discovery of primitive members of a group in a certain location meant that this was the point of origin from which the group had spread out . |
| 19 | On Sept. 26 four lower-ranking members of the Army were arrested along with four civilians . |
| 20 | One of the kindest and most popular members of the board , which he served with distinction for some 20 years , Mr Scott played a major part in the gradual development of Goodison Park into one of the country 's finest grounds , and also led the battle against hooliganism from the front . |
| 21 | Walsh did not appear , but Cooper and Pilger went in as non-executive members of the Board . |
| 22 | The affair gave renewed vigour to a running debate over the links between high-ranking members of the government and the production of coca . |
| 23 | On Sept. 6 the military authorities in Myanma arrested two high-ranking members of the opposition National League for Democracy ( NLD ) , acting chair Kyi Maung and Chit Khaing , on charges of " passing state evidence that they should have kept to themselves to an unconcerned person " . |
| 24 | Over 200 arrest warrants for suspected members of the Mafia , some of whom were already in prison , were issued in Sicily and other parts of the country on Nov. 17 ; a further 69 warrants were issued on Nov. 27 . |
| 25 | For student with a high intermediate to advanced level of proficiency in English whose occupational needs include ability to communicate with English-speaking members of the business community . |
| 26 | Women were normally assumed to be dependent members of a family unit : daughters living at home before marriage ; wives of employed husbands ; or if unmarried , sheltered by parents or siblings . |
| 27 | For the middle classes , able to live a comfortable life with servants to take care of domestic matters and to minister to the needs of dependent members of the household , giving a home to an elderly relative would not have meant the automatic provision of unpaid care by female relatives . |
| 28 | These should protect citizens from the homelessness , poverty , bad housing , unemployment , religious racial and sexual discrimination , physical and mental disability and ill health and the need to care for dependent members of the family which prevent citizens from participating in society . |
| 29 | By April 24 Tofilau Eti claimed that 30 members of the Fono had pledged support for his administration , while 16 were aligned with the SNDP and one remained an independent . |
| 30 | About 30 members of the group , along with a number of schoolchildren , will be taking part . |