Example sentences of "[num] member [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police in Egypt arrested more than 800 members of a group called Vanguards of the New Holy Struggle . |
| 2 | Sendero Luminoso was reported to have killed 22 members of a peasant militia on Oct. 5 in the southern Ayacucho region . |
| 3 | 2 MEMBERS Of A PROFESSION SEEK TO PURSUE THE INTERESTS OF THEIR CLIENTS |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Family killed : Six members of a family supporting the ANC have been killed in an attack on their home in Sebokeng township , near Johannesburg . |
| 6 | SIX members of a North-East car theft gang have each been jailed for three years after an 18-month undercover police operation . |
| 7 | Over 80 killings attributed to Sendero since Guzmán 's arrest included the " execution " of 44 members of a self-defence committee in the Andean community of Huayo , in La Mar province , by a Sendero column on Oct. 11 . |
| 8 | Cases cited in the Service 's annual report include one involving three members of a family disqualified for a total of 24 years for the part they played in the failure of a plant hire company . |
| 9 | THREE members of a family were stabbed to death in their home . |
| 10 | Around 11,600,000 people , nearly 50 per cent of the electorate , voted to elect 76 members from a list of 100 candidates ; voting did not take place in seven constituencies because of the absence of candidates . |
| 11 | Fear can break political movements ; the Communist Party of America , a paper threat at best , lost 14,000 of its 20,000 members in a year . |
| 12 | On Aug. 13 three soldiers and four guerrillas were killed when 50 members of a Hutu opposition group , who had come from a refugee camp in Tanzania , attacked an army barracks at Madamba in the south of the country . |
| 13 | Eight members of a group called The Prophet Mohammed 's Army were sentenced to death on Nov. 25 by a special tribunal composed of three military judges for crimes " against state security " [ see also p. 38457 ] . |
| 14 | It was n't until September 1905 , that the Fire Brigade was formed , this consisted of five members with a Captain and a Lieutenant . |
| 15 | Five members of a policeman 's family , a soldier and an airman were among Monday 's victims . |
| 16 | FIVE members of a charity group have accused a health authority of breaking its promises . |
| 17 | And although Eliot was only one member of a jury which included among others Robert Lowell , W. H. Auden , Conrad Aiken and Katherine Anne Porter , he was singled out for abuse : in fact , he seemed to receive more than Pound himself . |
| 18 | The research uses nationally representative survey data to establish the relationship between the employment of one member of a household and the employment of other household members . |
| 19 | I asked one member of a church planting team to look back on the experience . |
| 20 | Lawyers must accept only one member of a couple as a client . |
| 21 | State pensions are considered as earned income for tax purposes ; but there is a special age allowance when one member of a couple is over 65 , ( higher if you are over 80 ) so you wo n't be taxed if the state pension is your only income . |
| 22 | One member of a contingent of four German boy internationals was also among the leaders , Herbert Forster , adding a 78 to a nine-hole first round 38 . |
| 23 | Now , in the presence of a black hole one member of a pair of virtual particles may fall into the hole , leaving the other member without a partner with which to annihilate . |
| 24 | If qualification is hard to define , it is because it is one of the fundamental notions that are called on in building linguistic structures ; it is one member of a subsystem which in its essence will actually reduce to three terms : qualification , equation ( on which see Section 1.7 ) , and absence of relation . |
| 25 | Townsmen in Cornwall , Carew supposed , ‘ conceive themselves an estranged society from the upland dwellers and carry an emulation against them , as if one member of a body could continue this well without a beholdingness to the rest ’ . |
| 26 | They are numerous and complex and include , dealing as a principal , unless as a dealer who regularly buys or sells or solicits members of the public to do so ; dealing between companies in a group or participators in a joint enterprise or entered into by one member of a group or joint enterprise on behalf of another ; transactions entered into in connection with a sale or goods or services , eg. financial packages offered by exporters including some element of investment ; activities in connection with employees ' share schemes . |
| 27 | At least one member of a party of four must be on a list of persons who have attended a formal safety briefing which will be held at the beginning of each year . |
| 28 | The concept of alignment recognises how one member of a family system may oppose or join with another in carrying out some task . |
| 29 | More importantly it has been shown that an indistinguishable stain of H pylori as assessed by its DNA fingerprint , is present in the gastric mucosa of more than one member of a family group . |
| 30 | But the illusion is soon shattered … the moored sailing vessel alongside is heaving with 65 members of a film crew . |