Example sentences of "[adj] member [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Whether you prefer to follow Turner , and use the idea of a ‘ liminoid ’ period for those times and situations when only some members of a society pass through the rite of separation , is a matter of personal choice . |
| 4 | some members of a band could go out in the evening and pop into a whole bunch of places to ask if they will give them a gig . |
| 5 | Given that private study is still appropriate in view of the nature of the work , and that geographical isolation puts some members at a disadvantage , monitored attendance may not be the fairest form of assessment . |
| 6 | Police in Egypt arrested more than 800 members of a group called Vanguards of the New Holy Struggle . |
| 7 | Sendero Luminoso was reported to have killed 22 members of a peasant militia on Oct. 5 in the southern Ayacucho region . |
| 8 | 2 MEMBERS Of A PROFESSION SEEK TO PURSUE THE INTERESTS OF THEIR CLIENTS |
| 9 | We are in the run-up to a general election and every figure that the Secretary of State has produced today has been carefully worked out and planted among Conservative Back-Bench Members as a publicity stunt , just like the patients charter . |
| 10 | The Verband fur Deutsche Jugendherbergen ( DJH ) had , by the end of 1929 , some 700 British members including a block membership by the School Journey Association , an organization founded at the turn of the century to assist teachers responsible for taking parties of schoolchildren abroad . |
| 11 | In other words , the left-hand side of ( 17 ) shows the marginal benefit to the median member from a 1% increase in the wage rate , while the right-hand side of ( 17 ) shows the marginal cost , arising because higher wages reduce employment . |
| 12 | The social worker within a local authority is never professionally involved with a family simply because it is a family but only when family considerations impinge upon the welfare and interests of some member of a client group — usually a child but perhaps an elderly or disabled adult . |
| 13 | I suggest that any hon. Member with a constituency problem should get in touch with the Securities and Investments Board , which is taking the lead in this matter and which knows the individual details of specific cases . |
| 14 | The hon. Member for Bournemouth , West ( Mr. Atkinson ) must have stumbled into the debate without having been nobbled by his Whips , because he gave a reasonable , rational and consensus-seeking speech , unlike the hon. Member for Barrow and Furness ( Mr. Franks ) , who gave the House his next election address for 37 minutes , but then proceeded to disappear , as though he is the only hon. Member with a constituency outside central London . |
| 15 | One hon. Member at a time , please . |
| 16 | Military combat in the 1980s survived within established armies where a man had to be a contracted , organised member of a unit . |
| 17 | On the other hand , it seems likely that a positive function in the evolution of human society has been exercised by envy in that it maintained variations of individual behaviour within tolerable bounds and maintained a mutual bond , policed by envy and the fear of envy , between all the differentiated members of a society . |
| 18 | The reforms met with a mixed reception from unions , which see a register of individual members as a vehicle for democratic involvement of union members . |
| 19 | For Linnaeus , in contrast , each species had its own essential characteristics — its essence ; individual members of a species may differ , but only in non-essential ways . |
| 20 | So it is not only the inward patterning of particular species which makes creatures different , but individual members of a species are different , too , and most species can distinguish fellow members of their kind by sight , sound , smell or other senses and probably by behavioural patterns too , just as we do among our fellow humans . |
| 21 | But might they not also serve to overcome properties of the individual members of a society which are themselves the result of other social practices ? |
| 22 | Miller , by contrast , holds that holist explanations are appropriate whenever a specific condition is met — whenever a social phenomenon would persist if the relevant properties of particular individual members of a society were different . |
| 23 | The two are entirely compatible if it is remembered that one of the popular theories of the nature of the state itself has always been that it was founded on a contract between the individual members of a society . |
| 24 | This would guarantee " the perfect security of all the principal statesmen in the House from the effects of local or individual prejudices or enmities … [ or ] some accidental offence to a few individual members of a constituency , or some petty and miserable pique " . |
| 25 | It 's always interesting to compare the individual members of a range of basses . |
| 26 | Furthermore , what is true of the phenomenon of celibacy as a metaphor of an appropriate form of apartness and of integration is also true of individual members of a group such as a religious community . |
| 27 | As it is our 30th anniversary this year we are presenting all individual members with a surprise gift as they renew their membership . |
| 28 | This edition of Medau News would be sent to all 1982 group as well as individual members with a renewal form . |
| 29 | But the most annoying aspect of the early period was the lack of real interest shown by our first council members — at times we could n't muster up the required six members for a quorum at the monthly meetings . |
| 30 | Family killed : Six members of a family supporting the ANC have been killed in an attack on their home in Sebokeng township , near Johannesburg . |