Example sentences of "[num] members [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The referendum was monitored by 12,000 members of the security forces , 490 delegates from the Catholic Church , 50 international observers and 300 foreign journalists , and was considered the cleanest and most peaceful poll ever held in Panama , but was marked by a high abstention rate ( the turnout was only slightly over 40 per cent ) . |
| 2 | About six members of the Town Boys were consistently referred to as people with reputations for fighting . |
| 3 | There are just over 100 members of the Library Booksellers Group , but half of these are local retail shops selling to one or two local libraries , whilst others are mainly retail shops with some public library accounts . |
| 4 | Nineteen members of the University Lecturers Association picketed the School of Food and Consumer Studies at Robert Gordon University , where Mrs Falconer has been subjected to a redundancy dilemma . |
| 5 | A chapter was included on 90 members of the security forces killed by the regime 's opponents . |
| 6 | However in South Armagh the security forces are understood to be facing a blank wall in their search for an IRA sniper who has killed three members of the security forces and for the IRA 's mortar team . |
| 7 | The victims were mainly civilians and included several children ; three members of the security forces were also killed . |
| 8 | We are told in the notes on clauses that the management committee of the staff pension fund consists of group representatives and staff representatives in equal numbers , and that the management committee of TOPS consists of four members from the management of the Scottish Transport Group and three members from the trade unions , representing the workers . |
| 9 | Guerrillas from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ( FARC ) and the National Liberation Army ( ELN ) on Aug. 11 and Aug. 16 carried out raids in the departments of Huilar and Bolívar which resulted in the deaths of 17 members of the security forces , 20 guerrillas and two doctors . |
| 10 | Figures released by the Sri Lankan joint operations command on Jan. 15 recorded the killing of 1,111 members of the security forces , and 4,274 guerrillas of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE ) in the course of 1991 . |
| 11 | More than 160 members of the security forces were said to have been killed since February . |
| 12 | ‘ Amendment to SSAP 15 ’ Accounting for deferred tax ’ December 1992 ’ was adopted by the unanimous vote of the eight members of the Accounting Standards Board . |
| 13 | It was then that the four members of the Sex Pistols were taken , well-lubricated , from the hospitality suite of Thames Television to face interrogation by Bill Grundy on the popular teatime magazine programme , Today . |
| 14 | The man who served in the Irish Army is one of a number of men suspected of involvement in the deaths of four members of the security forces murdered in single shot attacks since last August . |
| 15 | An indefinite " strategic " strike by 40,000 members of the Metal Workers ' Union of Sao Paulo began on April 15 , closing all but one of Brazil 's main car manufacturers . |