Example sentences of "[subord] member [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | In the well-known experiments of Stanley Milgrom in the United States , where members of the public were invited off the streets to torture others , although 60 per cent did so , 40 per cent did not . |
2 | Local consultation 's taken place with a view to establishing a series of centres throughout Yardley Street where members of the public can bring materials for recycling , and you have made appropriate for the materials to be collected and dealt with . |
3 | Sotheby 's in Ireland present an Oriental — Islamic advisory day , along the lines of an Antique Roadshow , where members of the public are invited to bring along their items to be valued by the Sotheby experts . |
4 | She subscribed to a sort of education-orientated noblesse oblige which prevailed at the time , and would organize plays , and patronize enthusiastically any local concert party or visiting production , especially of Shakespeare ; and she invited me to her poetry readings , where members of the circle read poems on a prepared subject , in turn . |
5 | Where members of the group all tend to think the same way , you do n't get new id , new ideas are challenged . |
6 | Many of the complaints emanate from judges rather than members of the public and relate to conduct in court . |
7 | It is a measure of the importance we now attach to sport , that although few either know or care who the latest Minister of Sport is , we pay our national team bosses far more than members of the Cabinet . |
8 | Although members of the community dressed alike , the women in black robes , they were not bound to celibacy . |
9 | You were normally by yourself and sometimes you were lucky if some of your colleagues came or even if members of the public came to help you . |
10 | If members of the public generally or of a section of the public share an interest which has been interfered with by government action , the protection of that interest by court action is made much easier if one person can bring an action as representative of a large number of people . |
11 | In R. v. Monopolies and Mergers Commission , ex parte Argyll Group plc Lord Donaldson MR said that courts must show ‘ a proper awareness of the needs of public administration ’ : a court should be wary of striking down a decision if it is clear that the same decision would have been made even if the decision-maker had not acted unlawfully ; or if doing so would unduly delay the conduct of government business ; or if members of the public are likely already to have relied on the challenged decision ; or if the court thinks that the applicant 's motivation in making the application was improper or vexatious or frivolous . |
12 | Protection of ‘ reasonable people from being made fools of ’ was ‘ essential if members of the public are to have the justified confidence to invest in productive enterprise through the wider range of opportunities now available to them ’ . |
13 | If members of the public or organisations wish to comment on this Plan they should write |
14 | In deciding this it is not necessary to consider whether members of the public who are knowledgeable about the product are deceived , it may be sufficient if members of the public who have very little knowledge of the product concerned are likely to be deceived , see J. Bollinger v Costa Bravo Wine Co . |
15 | There will be a clear conflict of interest if members of the buy-out team are also participants in the decision-making process of the vendor . |
16 | If members of the chamber of commerce disagree about that , I am sure that they will be in touch with me . |
17 | Even if members of the village were not working directly on the land as farm workers they were involved in occupations closely associated with farming such as blacksmiths , wheelwrights , millers and other craftsmen and service workers . |
18 | It can be more difficult when an elderly couple differ themselves as to what they wish to do , or if members of the family disagree . |
19 | ( 10 ) Because members of the Panel executive and the full Panel are often seconded from merchant banks , stockbrokers , firms of solicitors and accountants they may have to excuse themselves from dealing with any case which involves their employing company or firm . |
20 | And that 's money we have to spend , and it in a way that was a controversial decision because members of the Council were genuinely concerned about spending money on what might be seen to be central services , when they were having to face not improving staffing in elderly persons ' homes . |
21 | It was only some years later that Jacques learned of the Board 's initiatives and that it had failed because members of the county council had been deeply suspicious of the radicalism associated with liberal adult education in the industrial areas of the county . |
22 | The right to preach within the Mass is jealously reserved to the clergy , whereas members of the laity often prove to be endowed with this charism . |
23 | The President , Vice-Presidents and the Senate are elected nationally while members of the Chamber of Deputies are elected by constituencies under a system of proportional representation . |
24 | We sit in the living-room for half an hour while members of the family drift by , sleepy-eyed , preparing for work and school . |
25 | Though not part of the Primary Needs Programme , the parallel expansion of the advisory service needs to be noted in this context , since members of the service became the Authority 's chief agents in PNP 's interpretation and implementation . |
26 | In deciding this it is not necessary to consider whether members of the public who are knowledgeable about the product are deceived , it may be sufficient if members of the public who have very little knowledge of the product concerned are likely to be deceived , see J. Bollinger v Costa Bravo Wine Co . |
27 | The section gives wide powers for the Council to arrange for its functions to be discharged by committees , sub-committees and individuals [ whether members of the Law Society staff or not ] . |
28 | The ‘ positive vetting ’ questionnaire also queries whether members of the Army Navy or Air Corps take or have ever taken drugs . |
29 | At a civic reception , blows were exchanged between one of the town clerk 's staff and a stage worker , after members of the company arrived to find no food left . |
30 | Educationalists and teachers , as well as members of the Government , must come to think of schools , polytechnics , and universities as engaged in a common enterprise . |