Example sentences of "[num] member [prep] the [noun] " 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 | ‘ I was trying to tell him that there are only 300 members of the IRA but he would n't listen , ’ says Hughes . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | About 30 members of the group , along with a number of schoolchildren , will be taking part . |
| 5 | Yesterday 's statement was agreed by more than 30 members of the securities industry and drawn up by Terry Pearson , senior securities adviser at the Royal Bank , after securities specialists met on Tuesday to find a practical replacement for Taurus . |
| 6 | Around 30 members of the clergy and laity gathered for the meeting in Cheltenham . |
| 7 | Falcone had been one of those responsible for bringing to trial 473 members of the Mafia in December 1987 [ see p. 35990 ] . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The division occurred on the day of a vital meeting of the 140 members of the Janata Dal parliamentary party . |
| 10 | All 53 members of the squad had to go and been seen to go , even though , he acknowledged , he was ‘ cutting into good wood ’ . |
| 11 | The four main states — Andhra Pradesh , Tamil Nadu , Karnataka , and Kerala — between them elect 129 members of the Lok Sabha , the lower house of parliament . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | However , the poll showed 66pc of the 203 members of the House of Laity taking part were in favour , with 34pc against . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The festival attracted 43 members from the Nissan car plant on Tyneside and a further 17 visiting competitors from Scotland . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Following the work that I had done at the MU on the Circuit Board Fault Diagnostic Aid in connection with my MSc project , 2 members of the staff had gained experience of expert systems : the Chief Technician and a civilian who had assisted me during the project . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | Last September , Which ? published the results of an inspection of standards of garage servicing at 30 garages , including 12 members of the RMI and the Scottish Motor Trade Association ( which also has an OFT-approved Code of Conduct ) . |
| 21 | Both Sebokeng inquiries exposed a pattern of unlawful behaviour by members of the security forces and lend weight to allegations of unprovoked use of lethal force by security forces , like in Daveytown on 24 March when 12 members of the ANC were shot dead by the police . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ] . |
| 26 | It consists of 12 threepart songs each linked with one of the 12 members of the Königsberg society of the same name . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Relations with Peru had been severely strained over the invasion , and over the presence in the Peruvian ambassador 's residence of 12 members of the Noriega regime . |
| 29 | A small vestigial union , the Unión Sindical Obrera ( USO ) , most of whose members had joined UGT in an earlier merger , had 700 members in the mid-1980s . |
| 30 | 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 . |