Example sentences of "[adj] member [prep] [art] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If it is not it will be a waste of time and money to include the gift and it may even be detrimental to your relationship with individual members of the media . |
| 5 | The general discussion gave individual members of the people the chance to criticize and to question the actions of their local popular committees , allowed the chairmen to explain and to justify themselves . |
| 6 | Instead of linking up with political parties , they relied on official helpers or on individual members of the gentry , who were normally their main opponents on the land question . |
| 7 | Eventually the ground of objectivity lies not in the past , in the nature of early members of the series or in our early grasp of the rule , but in the present behaviour of our linguistic or mathematical community . |
| 8 | Her skin seemed to glow , and she discovered she only had to smile at the male members of the staff and they were immediately more friendly . |
| 9 | And the interminable squabbles of the couple in Escapade ( 1955 ) are staged to make the point that expounding the pacifist cause , the main activity of the male member of the pair , is n't enough , and that the only hope for the world rests with their children , untouched by the complex , screwed-up emotions of the older generation . |
| 10 | The Green Book thus proposed that each ‘ individual member of the people ’ will have his or her sovereignty maintained only in regimes established according to ‘ The Third Universal Way ’ . |
| 11 | It is also a leading member of the MIPS Application Binary Interface initiative ( along with other MIPS users such as NEC Corp , Tandem Computers Inc , Pyramid Technology Corp and Silicon Graphics Inc ) , and says it is perfectly happy with its choice of chip . |
| 12 | It is also a leading member of the MIPS ABI initiative ( along with other MIPS users such as NEC , Tandem , Pyramid and Silicon Graphics ) , and says it is perfectly happy with its choice of chip . |
| 13 | Many of the grammatical and lexical oppositions in a language are not between equal members of a pair , but between two entities one of which is more marked than the other … . |
| 14 | Lunch time supervisors are important members of the staff team and they need careful selection and training if they are to carry out their jobs properly . |
| 15 | The more important members of the staff had wooden beds and horsehair mattresses . |
| 16 | She soon found herself refereeing football and umpiring cricket , and over the years became a well-loved and respected member of the staff . |
| 17 | Promoted to a senior lectureship in 1973 and to his professorship in German some 10 years later , he was one of the few remaining full-time members of the staff to have witnessed not only the coming of age of the University , but also the massive expansion of the Modern Languages Department and its impressive rise to prominence as an exponent of the applied approach to the teaching of languages , involving a marked shift of emphasis from a near exclusive preoccupation with literary studies in one foreign language to the development of communication skills in at least two . |
| 18 | ‘ ECT is usually left to junior members of the staff … with little training and guidance ’ , A leading psychiatrist in the field told New Scientist that ‘ the commonest misuse of ECT is on people who are really unhappy , distressed or sad , rather than ill with a depressive illness . ’ |
| 19 | Plain hospital beds with flock mattresses laid on interlaced wire springs were for the junior members of the staff . |
| 20 | This discovery is further evidence in favour of Charles Darwin 's ideas about sexual selection — his suggestion that the competition for mates amongst like-sexed members of a species is a driving force in evolution . |
| 21 | If more red than green members of a species of moth living on green foliage are being killed by predators , that may be selection ; but only if the predators are not colour-blind ; if they are it is random sampling error . |
| 22 | Mr Alan Amos , an elected member for the people of Hexham , has resigned following a ‘ caution ’ after being apprehended by police in the woods in Hampstead Heath . |
| 23 | Detailed analysis shows that the dominant member of the pair starts the calling , but the other male joins in just of a second later . |
| 24 | He was a founding member of the people 's Labour Party ( HEP ) which has 17 Kurdish deputies in Parliament , and he was the chairman of the newly founded Kurdish Institute in Istanbul . |
| 25 | The visit to the bank by the wife after undue influence had been exercised upon her by the husband was purely a matter of formality of signing the document which had been retained at the bank and which was done without any kind of advice in the presence of a junior member of the staff . |
| 26 | To achieve optimal diagnostic accuracy all initial diagnostic and interventional endoscopies were done or supervised by very experienced members of the staff and virtually all patients were re-examined after the initial interventional endoscopy . |
| 27 | He extended the family fortunes by marrying a Welsh heiress , and built up a considerable personal wealth by acting as a mortgage broker to less fortunate or less thrifty members of the gentry . |
| 28 | The ammonoids were derived from the nautiloids probably during the early Devonian , and from the Carboniferous until the Cretaceous are among the most abundant of fossil groups , in some rock types dominating to the exclusion of most other members of the fauna . |
| 29 | What is meant is that an organism does something which reduces its own chances of survival and reproduction , and increases the chances of other members of the species . |
| 30 | In animals , X would have to be genetically specified , although it might be specified merely as being different , in any way , from other members of the species . |