Example sentences of "[det] member [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This is not the case at a rehearsal where the players are dressed casually , people come and go , some members of the orchestra are talking to one another , while others are sitting drinking coffee , tea ( or perhaps even soup ) . |
| 4 | The crisis revealed , however , that the king 's war no longer had the wholehearted support of the community , and more ominously , that some members of the nobility were prepared to associate themselves with the commons ' demands for concessions and reforms . |
| 5 | Binnerton manor obviously had a large number of freeholders , including some members of the nobility and gentry who probably never set foot in the place let alone attended the manorial court . |
| 6 | How far this influenced some members of the government it is difficult to say but I have no doubt it was one of the factors which led to a majority being against abolition . |
| 7 | Even in death , some members of the Glencairn family could not forget that she had been a commoner and objected to her burial in the vault . |
| 8 | Some members of the jury wept as they returned their murder verdict at the Old Bailey in March 1988 . |
| 9 | From the 1890s some members of the ILP were actively demanding the ‘ endowment of motherhood ’ ( later known as family allowances ) arguing that regular , unstigmatizing financial support from the state would enable poor mothers to rear healthy children . |
| 10 | With the Kulak path , some members of the peasantry adapt successfully to the market system , thus becoming relatively wealthy , while other peasants only become impoverished , so creating internal social differentiation within the peasantry . |
| 11 | By 1525 in the latter shire a quarter of the personal estate in a sample of forty villages was owned by 4 per cent of the rural population , excluding the squires — clearly there were some members of the peasantry who must have had sufficient wealth to dominate their fellows ( 81 , pp.26–7 ; 83 , pp.17 , 142 ) . |
| 12 | Some members of the school first heard about the ESSE/L Project " on the grapevine " through contacts with one of the Major Project schools , and through the school librarian 's contact with the DCSL . |
| 13 | If predators find it difficult to concentrate on prey in schools , then they should become more efficient if some members of the school are made easier to concentrate upon . |
| 14 | the new order would contain additional elements of control which some members of the probation service might perceive as inimical to their approach to working with offenders . |
| 15 | Once again some members of the Society took part in the Bishop 's Castle Tandem Triathlon , held on Saturday 6th July . |
| 16 | After evidence came to light that some members of the Society had committed suicide by following methods described in the booklet , the Attorney-General sought to dissuade the Society from further dissemination of the Guide by applying to the High Court for a declaration that its publication amounted to the crime of aiding and abetting suicide . |
| 17 | Some members of the crew had been sitting in the bows and it was only when they denied having seen her that he began to search seriously . |
| 18 | The term was originally used by Hader and Lindeman to refer to work done in industrial consultation committees where some members of the committee were trained to observe in detail what happened at meetings and were then questioned afterwards by research workers — rather like an intelligence officer might question the crew of an aircraft after a raid . |
| 19 | Some members of the Committee moved that the school stay open , on the grounds that short-term financial gain would not be compensated for by the long-term loss to the community . |
| 20 | Some members of the Committee did raise the problem of the ‘ long-term costs to the community ’ likely to be brought about by the closure of Village school , but this objection was apparently passed over with no request for clarification , consultation , or serious study of the problem . |
| 21 | Davis has noted the unease as late as the mid-1820s of some members of the committee of the Anti-Slavery Society over Cropper 's desire to see public meetings addressed by travelling agents because of the association of such methods with other , divisive reform causes . |
| 22 | Sleight apologised for this state of affairs at the Congress in Dublin in 1895 : " It must be remembered that it is exceedingly difficult for the executive committee to meet together often , for every time they do so they have to bear their own travelling expenses , and sometimes hotel expenses ; and to whatever centre they are summoned , it only means that some members of the committee have to travel a considerable distance . |
| 23 | Some members of the Committee would have liked to support such an amendment in Committee and we have had a speech already tonight from the Government Back Benches in support of it . |
| 24 | When Fulk of Neuilly , the most famous preacher of the time , accused him of having three wicked daughters , pride , avarice and sensuality , Richard amused his courtiers by offering to give his pride to the Templars , his avarice to the Cistercians , and his sensuality to bishops and abbots — reminding Fulk of the notorious weaknesses of some members of the church . |
| 25 | For some members of the Church of England it 'll be the fulfillment of years of campaigning , for others it 's the end of the road . |
| 26 | It 's a form of liberal scapegoating no less wrongheaded that ‘ reasoning ’ ( engaged in by some members of the Press ) which converts every black boy into a mugger . |
| 27 | McKean also got his tactics right on the track , even if later , when he should have been on the victory rostrum , he got ‘ boxed in ’ by some members of the press . |
| 28 | Some members of the Dialogue Group are doing this by contacting and listening to their own particular networks and groups . |
| 29 | Yet in the 1960S some members of the credit industry had feared it would grind to a halt unless they could threaten promise-breakers with prison . |
| 30 | The use of skeleton arguments has been popular with the Court of Appeal , but met with some resistance from some members of the Bar ( Blom-Cooper , 1984 ) . |