Example sentences of "[adj] members [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , some 300 members of the National Peasants ' Party staged a march on Jan. 7 through the centre of Bucharest in memory of those killed by the Securitate during the revolution and to protest against the NSF decision to stand in the elections . |
| 2 | The increase in the number of 80 and 90 year-olds has been viewed with alarm by some members of the professional groups whose work brings them closely into touch with the oldest old — the geriatricians , general practitioners , nurses , social workers , occupational — and physiotherapists — as well as by others more indirectly involved ( HAS 1982 ) . |
| 3 | The Parti Islam SeMalaysia ( PAS ) increased its vote , and , according to the Far Eastern Economic Review of March 19 , 1992 , its continuing influence in the Malay-dominated north was worrying some members of the United Malays National Organization ( UMNO ) , the chief component of the BN . |
| 4 | Of the 12 members of the European Communities ( EC ) , only Portugal and Greece now remained outside the ERM . |
| 5 | The European Council of heads of state and government of the 12 members of the European Communities ( EC ) held a summit in Rome on Dec. 14-15 . |
| 6 | For the first time , ministers formally acknowledged the security aspirations of the 12 members of the European Communities ( EC ) , some of whom had urged a greater defence role for the nine-country Western European Union [ see pp. 37212 ; 37931 ; 38216 ] . |
| 7 | Several member countries of the European Communities ( EC ) , in the context of the EC debate on European political union ( EPU ) , made proposals during October which addressed the issues of common European security and defence policy , and in particular the role of the Western European Union ( WEU ) , which currently comprised nine of the 12 members of the European Communities ( EC ) but not Denmark , Greece or neutral Ireland . |
| 8 | The day before , in the same city , Los Angeles , a four-hour battle between 300 police and 12 members of the Black Panthers ended with the Panthers ' surrender . |
| 9 | An Executive Committee was formed and individual members of the socialist parties — especially the Mensheviks — played prominent roles : Trotsky briefly held the post of chairman . |
| 10 | It still behoved the middle class trader to play fair with his customers and not take advantage of good-natured country parsons and ignorant members of the labouring classes . |
| 11 | At least three future members of the Public Schools Commission of the 1960s came to talk and walk — Bernard Williams , David Donnison , John Vaizey — and to challenge the assumptions of 1944 upon which British schooling reposed . |
| 12 | A number of individuals are prominent members of the governing bodies of both the union and the party , and some 40 union leaders , including the confederation 's general secretary , were members of parliament in 1985 . |
| 13 | ‘ Teaching offers an escape route for the more fortunate members of the working classes . ’ |
| 14 | Yesterday Buckingham Palace confirmed that the Prince had accepted a long-standing invitation to address the annual conference of the Scottish Crofters Union which has almost 2,000 members in the Western Isles . |
| 15 | These groups would be involved in a ‘ demand-side ’ classificatory struggle with the more established members of the dominant classes whose aesthetic tastes would be for high modernist art . |
| 16 | Leading members of the armed forces : Gen. Try Sutrisno ( C.-in-C. of the Indonesian Armed Forces ; Head of Co-ordinating Agency for the Reinforcement of National Stability — Bakorstranas ) ; Lt.-Gen. |
| 17 | An archbishop presided at her requiem and her bier was carried through the city by leading members of the civil authorities . |
| 18 | Leading members of the British Ex-Services Wheelchair Sports Association travelled as VIP guests in a ceremony hosted jointly by the railway and Tywyn branch of the Royal British Legion . |
| 19 | About 600 members of the armed forces were discharged for alleged involvement in the coup attempt . |
| 20 | Instead , there are two fewer Members on the Conservative Benches than there were in July . |
| 21 | Three members of a Colombian drugs cartel who used Oxford language schools as a cover have each been jailed for ten years . |
| 22 | The obsession with health in a disease-ridden society explains part of their attractions , but equally important were the opportunities for social and sexual intercourse , flirtation , gaming and marriage-broking which were essential to the more ambitious and less well-established members of the landed orders and their imitators . |
| 23 | She could n't ever see the village letting the tradition die , especially when the younger members of the local families were so keen . |
| 24 | Research has also indicated that many members of the upper strata owe their position primarily to the fact that they have been born into those strata and have capitalized on the advantages provided by their social background . |
| 25 | Many members of the alien companies of the Pioneers chafed against the restrictions of their service . |
| 26 | Three thousand members of the British Shops and Stores Association ( which , since last Autumn has incorporated NARF ) , were invited to nominate the flooring manufacturer who has given them the best service . |
| 27 | On 13 September the government announced that President Fujimori had ordered all members of the armed forces to respect human rights . |
| 28 | Naykene had written an article in which he alleged that all members of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council , which ruled for a period in 1979 , had benefited from an illegal foreign loan . |
| 29 | Assuming jurisdiction could be established , it would be necessary for the Court to accept that all members of the United Nations have a direct interest in the observance of its provisions and therefore standing to challenge a conflicting treaty . |
| 30 | Representing a wide spectrum of radical reformers — some members of the Communist Party , some members of the Popular Front — as well as ecologists , dissident members of the armed forces and religious groups , they carried banners demanding democracy and a free press , a multi-party system and an end to the Communists ' monopoly of power . |