Example sentences of "[num] member of [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Around 30 members of the clergy and laity gathered for the meeting in Cheltenham . |
| 3 | They followed as far as possible in the time available , the practices and procedures of the permanent parliamentary boundary commission , indeed of the six members of the committees , five were members of the parliamentary boundary commissions and they were appointed to the committees after consultation with the opposition parties . |
| 4 | In the bright sunshine each September in central Africa , the ngwazi ( conqueror ) Dr Kamuzu Banda , Life President and over eighty years old , has addressed 20,000 members of the women 's federation of Malawi for no less than three hours . |
| 5 | Under its 1949 Basic Law ( Constitution ) , the Federal Republic of Germany ( West Germany ) is a " democratic and social federal state " whose organs are ( i ) the Federal Diet ( Bundestag ) , the lower house of parliament , comprising 497 members elected for a four-year term by a mixed system of proportional representation and direct voting , and 22 members elected by the West Berlin House of Representatives ; ( ii ) the Federal Council ( Bundesrat ) , the upper house of parliament , comprising 41 members of the governments of the Republic 's 10 Länder ( states ) and four representatives appointed by the West Berlin Senate ; ( iii ) the Federal President ( Bundespräsident — currently Richard von Weizsäcker ) elected for a five-year term by the Federal Assembly ( Bundesversammlung ) comprising the members of the Bundestag and an equal number of delegates nominated by the Länder parliaments ; and ( iv ) the federal government ( Bundesregierung ) consisting of the Federal Chancellor ( Bundeskanzler — currently Helmut Kohl ) elected by the Bundestag on the proposal of the Federal President and his or her ministers . |
| 6 | Estonia ( not one of the ten members of the CIS ) was the first of the former Soviet republics to issue its own currency , in June of last year . |
| 7 | My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has appointed the eight members of the schoolteachers ' review body under the chairmanship of Sir Graham Day . |
| 8 | Canada , which had recognized Ukrainian independence on Dec. 2 [ see below ] , announced the establishment of diplomatic links with Ukraine and Russia , and recognition of the other nine members of the CIS [ for recognition of central Asian republics by Moslem states see below p. 38657 ] . |
| 9 | One member of the 4-Skins , protesting his innocence of any B.M/N.F involvement to a journalist the next day , told a story which under less dire circumstances could rival the best of Buster Keaton in terms of pathos , slapstick and deadpan gallows humour . |
| 10 | Invertebrate predators are often very specific in their chosen prey and one member of the crustaceans fall into this category . |
| 11 | The one member of the CPNI who was centrally involved in NICRA was Betty Sinclair ; as secretary of the Belfast trades council she had more time to devote to it than trade-union officials like Banks and Harris . |
| 12 | This was the first recorded occasion on which one member of the commons was chosen to act as a spokesman for them all . |
| 13 | Under the 1949 Basic Law the Federal Republic is a " democratic and social federal state " whose organs are : ( i ) the Bundestag ( lower house of parliament ) elected for a four-year term in universal , direct , free and secret elections ; ( ii ) the Bundesrat ( upper house ) , now comprising 65 members of the governments of the Republic 's 16 Länder ( states ) ; ( iii ) the Federal President ( Bundespräsident ) elected for a five-year term by the Federal Assembly ( Bundesversammlung ) , comprising the members of the Bundestag and an equal number of delegates nominated by the Länder parliaments ; ( iv ) the Federal Government ( Bundesregierung ) consisting of the Federal Chancellor ( Bundeskanzler — elected by the Bundestag on the proposal of the Federal President ) , together with his or her ministers ; and ( v ) the Federal Constitutional Court ( Bundesverfassungsgericht ) , whose judges are elected by the Bundestag and Bundesrat to serve 12-year non-renewable terms . |
| 14 | In 1473 the king ordered him to look into a dispute between two members of the goldsmiths ' company . |
| 15 | In 1473 the king ordered him to look into a dispute between two members of the goldsmiths ' company . |
| 16 | Hearts skipper Craig Levein and midfielder Gary Mackay are the players who 've agreed to join two members of the supporters federation , one from the shareholders association and chairman Alex Kitson on the committee . |
| 17 | The tribunal will consist of the chief officer of police ( chairman ) and two members of the Police Complaints Authority who have not been concerned with the case . |
| 18 | In July two members of the PKI imprisoned in the 1960s were reportedly released from prison . |
| 19 | Candidates included 63 non-communists and seven members of the clergy , as well as more than 100 former assembly members . |