Example sentences of "member [prep] [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The research ‘ form ’ was easy and quick to fill in , and itself gave immediate feedback to members about the investigation process .
2 Mr Dinkins was asked if he would follow the example of his predecessor , former Mayor Ed Koch , who planned a dip in a Japanese-style bath together with staff members during a Japan visit .
3 We are in the run-up to a general election and every figure that the Secretary of State has produced today has been carefully worked out and planted among Conservative Back-Bench Members as a publicity stunt , just like the patients charter .
4 Even testing family members for the gene mutation may have serious and unforeseen consequences and should not be done without careful consideration and the fully informed consent of those being tested .
5 The weekend had produced three new members for the Programme Group : Crawford , Leah and Helen .
6 While there may be support among ICC members for the sub-continent bid , South Africa looked England 's most dangerous opponents .
7 At a time when we are on the threshold of change , indeed very considerable change , in local government and when our burghs which have been with us since the earliest times are about to disappear , it may be of interest to look at the burghs of Scotland prior to the passing of the Reform Act and their position in the election of Members for the Westminster Parliament .
8 ( This was either a discussion between a teacher and an undergraduate , or between two members of a seminar group . )
9 But the illusion is soon shattered … the moored sailing vessel alongside is heaving with 65 members of a film crew .
10 MEMBERS of a Rotaract club rolled up their sleeves , donned wellies and spent a morning in a river , to mark the group 's 25th birthday .
11 The minute was sent to members of a Whitehall committee which included Chancellor Major .
12 FIVE members of a charity group have accused a health authority of breaking its promises .
13 Later generations were frequently reminded that they were once members of a slave community whom the Lord had mercifully redeemed from bondage .
14 Many men who obtained small posts as excisemen were not themselves members of a burgh council , but it would be unusual to find revenue officers in Scottish towns without close political links with men who mattered in the politics of burgh or county .
15 Most were members of a court society which was essentially cosmopolitan .
16 Members of a development subcommittee will be asked to authorise enforcement action against the premises when they meet later this week .
17 For instance , Irving Janis has developed an account of foreign policy-making which he termed ‘ Group-think ’ ; according to this account , members of a decision-making group may fail to voice their reservations over proposed courses of action in order to remain on good terms with the rest of the group .
18 Whether you prefer to follow Turner , and use the idea of a ‘ liminoid ’ period for those times and situations when only some members of a society pass through the rite of separation , is a matter of personal choice .
19 As members of a minority faith group in a predominantly Muslim country , Christian writers and publishers strive to express their beliefs without compromise , while at the same time maintaining an open dialogue with all sectors of the population .
20 On the other hand , the nature of the ‘ common bond ’ on which they are based is such that members and potential members of a credit union can become aware of the cost advantages in the normal course of their day-to-day contact with friends , neighbours or workmates .
21 It refers to a much smaller group of politicians who hold executive office temporarily ( following a coup d'état , revolution , election or other succession process ) as presidential appointees , or members of a majority party , coalition or military junta , and we shall use the concept in this sense .
22 They included members of a Mafia clan from Corleone in Sicily — the birthplace of fictional Godfather Don Corleone who was played in films by Marlon Brando .
23 On Aug. 13 three soldiers and four guerrillas were killed when 50 members of a Hutu opposition group , who had come from a refugee camp in Tanzania , attacked an army barracks at Madamba in the south of the country .
24 Members of a shoal roll with a peculiar , smooth , porpoise-like movement that is all grace and quietness .
25 TWO members of a Granada TV news team were robbed while in the US to film Laura before she and her parents left for home .
26 114 ) ; when a member of the court was a shareholder of the brewery company which owned the premises in question : R. V. Gee ( 1901 ) 17 T.L.R. 374 ; when three of the members of a compensation tribunal which refused the renewal of a licence had , along with their fellow justices , instructed a solicitor to oppose the renewal before the tribunal : Frome United Breweries v. Bath JJ. [ 1926 ] A.C. 586 ; when three members of the committee which granted and confirmed a licence had been shareholders and directors of the company on whose behalf the licence was applied for , although they resigned as directors and sold their shares before taking part in the proceedings : R. v. Hain ( 1896 ) 12 T.L.R. 323 .
27 The Foreign Secretary and the Chancellor of the Exchequer are key members of a peace-time Cabinet ; and public opinion will expect that the Commonwealth and Scotland should be represented in it .
28 Sometimes the members of a church planting team have to learn afresh things forgotten because of their wrong understanding of the church-as-a-field .
29 It is essential that the members of a history department do not see the introduction of National Curriculum history as their entire curriculum .
30 ( 6 ) The members of a licensing board for a district or licensing division of a district shall be elected at the first meeting of the district council held after the ordinary election of that council in 1977 and , in the case of subsequent elections , of those members : ( a ) except in so far as paragraph ( b ) below otherwise provides , at the first meeting of the council held after each Subsequent ordinary election of the council ; and ( b ) where a determination under subsection ( 3 ) above is made ( whether or not at such meeting of the council as is mentioned in paragraph ( a ) above ) , either : ( i ) at the meeting at which the determination is made ; or ( ii ) at the first meeting of the council held after such meeting as is mentioned in sub-paragraph ( i ) above .
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