Example sentences of "be a member " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only this August , an Arab extremist thought to be a member of Hizbollah died in a London hotel while strapping a bomb to his body . |
| 2 | Midani , said to be a member of one of the richest families in the world , would install one of United 's favourite sons , Bobby Charlton , as chairman . |
| 3 | A Concorde tug was the brainchild of PC Bob Gilbert based at Maidstone , Kent who also happens to be a member of the Vulcan Association . |
| 4 | If you think you should be a member , we will take up your case . |
| 5 | For example , he wanted to be a member of as many clubs — of any description — as possible . |
| 6 | I pay 11p a week to be a member of the union but I really think it is a waste of hard earned money . |
| 7 | ABOUT one in every four of Romania 's 23 million population is thought to be a member of the security service , the Securitate . |
| 8 | Talb is believed to be a member of the Palestinian Popular Salvation Front , a PLO group . |
| 9 | You need not be a member , nor be a youth : Youth Hostels are open to anyone and provide a countrywide network of cheap accommodation which is warm and comfortable . |
| 10 | It was a joke , really , because the night detective of the hotel , this guy in his mid 20s with long blond hair who looked like a hippy with beads on , turned out to be a member of the Vice Squad . |
| 11 | Lennox , despite his anti-English position , would find it intolerable to be a member of the Beaton faction ; within a few weeks , he would go over to the pro-English party , his hopes of his marriage to Margaret , daughter of Angus and Margaret Tudor , and of English recognition of him as heir-presumptive , should Arran break with England , weighing more with him than the desire for liberty and honour expressed in the July bond . |
| 12 | Mr Canavan , who is fighting for re-election as MP for Falkirk West and has been a prominent member of PLCND , said : ‘ I have always been proud to be a member of CND and will continue to campaign vigorously for unilateral nuclear disarmament within the Labour Party . |
| 13 | ‘ I want to be a Member of Parliament . |
| 14 | ‘ To be a member of the Labour party you had to be a member of the staff association but I did n't know at the time , ’ says Davies . |
| 15 | ‘ To be a member of the Labour party you had to be a member of the staff association but I did n't know at the time , ’ says Davies . |
| 16 | Controversy about need to be a member of the committee is thus removed . |
| 17 | By temperament he could never be a member of a group , but at the time he was associated with a talented wartime circle which included Max Jacob , the poet Cocteau , the composer Eric Satie , the painters Juan Gris , Kisling , Foujita and , more rarely , Picasso and the sculptors Archipenko , Zadkine and Lipchitz . |
| 18 | In the past , choice was more important , and then national groups were much like many other groups of which one might be a member . |
| 19 | We 're an open community in this house now and we 'd like you to be a member , would n't we , Alison . |
| 20 | Therefore detection of damp in a survey calls for further examination and report ( usually free ) by a specialist contractor , who should be a member of the British Chemical Damp Proof Association . |
| 21 | A proxy need not be a member of the Company . |
| 22 | And it is convenient in practice that he should be a member , since this obviates the frequent summoning of the Law Officers for advice on points of Law . |
| 23 | For , like Attlee before him , Churchill originally had it in mind to curb the Treasury by parcelling out the functions of economic policy-making to a team of ministers , of which the Chancellor of the Exchequer would be a member , but not an over-mighty one . |
| 24 | ( 2 ) In sections 173 , 174 and 176 above , the expression ‘ approved duty ’ , in relation to a member of a body , means any of the following duties , that is to say — ( a ) attendance at a meeting of the body , or of any of its committees or sub-committees ; ( b ) the doing of any other thing approved by the body , or anything of a class so approved , for the purpose of , or in connection with , the discharge of the functions of the body , or of any of its committees or sub-committees ; , ( c ) where , in pursuance of a duty imposed on or a power granted to the body by any enactment or instrument ( including a Royal Charter ) , he has been appointed by or on the nomination of the body to be a member of some other body prescribed for the purpose of this paragraph ( whether or not that other body falls within any of paragraphs ( ab ) to ( f ) of subsection ( 1 ) above ) , the doing of anything as a member of that other body for the purpose of , or in connection with , the discharge of the functions of that other body . |
| 25 | The law provides that if a member of a local authority fails throughout a period of six consecutive months to attend any meeting of the local authority he shall , unless the failure was due to some reason approved by the local authority before the expiry of that period , cease to be a member of the authority . |
| 26 | Fourthly , a member who has failed to make the declaration of acceptance of office ( see ante , p. 28 ) automatically ceases to be a member . |
| 27 | Fifthly , a member who is adjudged bankrupt or who has made a composition with his creditors ceases to be a member . |
| 28 | Sixthly , a councillor ceases to be a member if he takes or holds any paid office or employment ( other than that of chairman ) , the appointment to which is made by the council . |
| 29 | David Roberts 's reputation as an architectural painter seems to have been his only qualification to be a member of the panel . |
| 30 | On Maundy Thursday , I had ceased to be a member of the top class Infants and now entered the Boys School , which at that time catered for seven to fourteen year olds — the latter being school leaving age . |