Example sentences of "[num] member [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | About 30 members of the group , along with a number of schoolchildren , will be taking part . |
| 4 | Falcone had been one of those responsible for bringing to trial 473 members of the Mafia in December 1987 [ see p. 35990 ] . |
| 5 | On Saturday , 3rd October , 640 members of the Diocese converged on York University for the annual Formation and Recommissioning Day of the Dioceses ' Special Ministers of the Eucharist . |
| 6 | All 53 members of the squad had to go and been seen to go , even though , he acknowledged , he was ‘ cutting into good wood ’ . |
| 7 | Police in Egypt arrested more than 800 members of a group called Vanguards of the New Holy Struggle . |
| 8 | On July 22 Khalifah told foreign journalists in Khartoum that over 800 members of the rebel Sudanese People 's Liberation Army ( SPLA ) had recently surrendered , and that negotiations with the SPLA were imminent . |
| 9 | Sendero Luminoso was reported to have killed 22 members of a peasant militia on Oct. 5 in the southern Ayacucho region . |
| 10 | However , the poll showed 66pc of the 203 members of the House of Laity taking part were in favour , with 34pc against . |
| 11 | Established , in close co-operation with the Communist Party , by the publisher Victor Gollancz in March 1936 , the Club rapidly became rather more than a purveyor of books — though , with 50,000 members by the beginning of 1938 , it did that effectively and in vast numbers . |
| 12 | Brixton was the scene of the next outbreak of violent disorder , during the weekend 28–9 September 1985. 724 major crimes were reported , 43 members of the public and 10 police-officers were injured , and 230 arrests were made . |
| 13 | 2 MEMBERS Of A PROFESSION SEEK TO PURSUE THE INTERESTS OF THEIR CLIENTS |
| 14 | But just days before this edition of Central 's Pot of Gold was broadcast , 2 members of the band — 28-year-old Dee Miller and 30-year-old Rose Patterson — were killed in an accident of the M4 motorway near Swindon . |
| 15 | In addition to electing the 212 members of the Chamber of Representatives ( lower house of parliament ) , voters also elected the 106 directly elected members of the 184-member Senate ( upper house ) . |
| 16 | That is to take nothing away from Mitterrand 's remarkable three-hour TV performance last week when he took on — and beat — a TV interviewer , three editors , 12 members of the public and a leading anti-Maastricht politician . |
| 17 | If , as I have suggested , the 12 members of the Community do not have much in common with us over sovereignty , what do we have in common over foreign affairs ? |
| 18 | ‘ We 're fairly relaxed about it ’ , adding that Mr Kohl has made it clear repeatedly in previous statements that he was keen for all 12 members of the Community to proceed towards union together . |
| 19 | The OLF announced on June 23 that it was withdrawing from the Council of Representatives ; elected in July 1991 the 87-member Council contained 12 members of the OLF and 16 were from four other Oromo organizations [ see p. 38322 ; for December 1991 agreement on autonomous regions see pp. 38564 ; 38660 ] . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , 12 members of the Cabinet did visit the shrine on Aug. 15 ( and at least three others had visited it earlier in the month ) , although most claimed that they had done so in a private capacity . |
| 21 | No , no i ever every decision was taken at the lodge , the shop stewards did n't run the strike between them and just inform us after every decision was taken by all fifty members at the start and forty members at the finish , and I 'm you know I 'm proud to say that everyone was part of what went on . |
| 22 | Only its senior , policy-making members ( i.e. thirteen members of the Executive , seven of the Army Council and certain others ) appeared to be immune from arrest . |
| 23 | Ten years later there were 215,000 such members , dwarfing numerically the 30,000 members of the ILP . |
| 24 | There were 490 members of the union and the nine-member Executive Committee were all women . |
| 25 | Some 31,760,000 Italians ( 67 per cent of the 47,400,000 electorate ) voted in a general election on April 5-6 to select the 630 members of the Chamber of Deputies and the 315 elected members of the Senate . |
| 26 | The referendum was monitored by 12,000 members of the security forces , 490 delegates from the Catholic Church , 50 international observers and 300 foreign journalists , and was considered the cleanest and most peaceful poll ever held in Panama , but was marked by a high abstention rate ( the turnout was only slightly over 40 per cent ) . |
| 27 | I noticed in particular the comment that at regional appeals , there were six members on the panel hearing the appeal , all paid . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Family killed : Six members of a family supporting the ANC have been killed in an attack on their home in Sebokeng township , near Johannesburg . |
| 30 | SIX members of a North-East car theft gang have each been jailed for three years after an 18-month undercover police operation . |