Example sentences of "[det] member [prep] a [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Although comments were requested by 30 November 1992 , the process is by no means over and I therefore urge all members with a view on this matter to write without delay to Desmond Wright , Secretary to the Auditing Committee at Moorgate Place . |
| 6 | The household is often treated as a unit of consumption , and it is frequently assumed that all members of a household have equal access to its resources . |
| 7 | In the past car ownership has been assumed to give equal ‘ mobility ’ to all members of a household . |
| 8 | Hence social contracts may bind , not all members of a society , but members of some group within society . |
| 9 | Finally , war served to bring all members of a society , soldier and civilian , under the umbrella of national consciousness . |
| 10 | The classic statement of this view by T. H. Marshall ( 1950 ; reprinted in Marshall and Bottomore , 1992 ) conceived citizenship as a condition in which all members of a society possessed clearly defined and steadily expanding civil , political and social rights ; and in this sense it embodied a principle of equality which brought it into conflict with the inequalities engendered by a capitalist economy or existing in various authoritarian regimes . |
| 11 | Since all members of a meritocracy are socialized to compete for the top jobs and instilled with ambition , failure could be particularly frustrating . |
| 12 | Chapter 1 of this book presents a case that good communications between all members of a firm and its customers are essential to its success . |
| 13 | Three of the players , Willie Young and Arthur Graham of Aberdeen and the Celtic sweeper Pat McCluskey were all members of a Scotland under 23 team who had won the night before in Frederikshavn . |
| 14 | The most effective method is that of asking all members of a sample of households to keep diaries , noting what they are doing at all times of the day . |
| 15 | Even in real animals , such duplications are rare enough not to invalidate my general statement that all members of a species share the same DNA ‘ addressing ’ system . |
| 16 | Species — characteristic behaviour is behaviour which is shown by all members of a species . |
| 17 | In rural Serbia a form of local self-government , based on the zadruga , the extended family often comprising all members of a village , kept alive the traditions of Serbian culture and religion . |
| 18 | Though all members of a cycle group do not need to be competent in all five of the recognised face skills , the team as a whole must be able to deploy sufficient resources on each shift to man the roles likely to arise . |
| 19 | The element of the image which suggests that as a matter of principled obligation all members of a group rushed to the aid of , say , an aggressive and irresponsible cattle-thief or rapist , may therefore be the product of the practical consideration that men related to an offender prudently assumed they would be held collectively responsible for his actions . |
| 20 | The concept of ‘ rule ’ is used here in a ‘ strong ’ sense — that is , as something held ( although often tacitly ) by all members of a group or community as representations of legitimacy and acceptability . |
| 21 | It gives all members of a group the same set of attributes . |
| 22 | However , if all members of a group went swimming at the same time and left valuables unattended , that would be an unnecessary risk where no real precautions had been taken and would be a breach of the duty of care . |
| 23 | Moreover , ideological divisions have frequently led to union rivalries which can undermine strike action , especially since the unions compete for the same grades of employees ; in BR a single union can in most cases bring out most or all members of a grade . |
| 24 | An ESS is a strategy such that , if all members of a population adopt it , no alternative , ‘ mutant ’ , strategy can invade the population . |
| 25 | It works for all members of a family . |
| 26 | It costs £180 a year but gives £50,000 of cover for all members of a family sharing one home . |
| 27 | These patients were all members of a family of Kurdish refugees who had recently arrived from Turkey , not patients from the AIDS wards or clinic . |
| 28 | This has important implications for the study of protein-protein interactions because it demonstrates how one protein can bind to all members of a class of highly variable proteins by means of secondary structural interactions and recognition of highly conserved residues . |
| 29 | A leading author in the genre , Claus Offe , defines the capitalist state as an institutionalized form of political power which ‘ seeks to implement and guarantee the collective interests of all members of a class society dominated by capital ’ ( Offe , 1984 , p. 120 ) . |
| 30 | These requirements were substantially met before 1969 by the creation of discretionary trusts , by which property is given to trustees upon trust to apply the income on capital in favour of such one or more members of a group of beneficiaries as the trustees shall in their absolute discretion determine . |