Example sentences of "the member [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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31 | What Schumpeter called the ‘ classical doctrine ’ of democracy differs in several respects from the theories I have just outlined , one of the crucial differences being that it conceives democracy as a historical movement which aims constantly to extend the area within which the members of a society can govern themselves by participating fully and freely in the regulation of their collective life . |
32 | Typically there is a pair of ganglia in each segment of the body , but the members of a pair are usually so closely united that they appear as a single ganglion , the commissure being no longer evident externally . |
33 | The relatively restricted contrasts are invariably carried by open set elements ; the freely recurring contrasts may be carried by open set items ( as in mare : stallion ) , but the members of a pair of lexical items manifesting such a contrast frequently share the same open set element ( i.e. the root ) , the contrast being signalled by one or more closed set elements ) i.e. affixes ) : |
34 | In his experiment , Gould painted over the ocelli ( small light-sensitive organs ) of some of the members of a hive , which would then dance as if it were dark , but otherwise behave normally . |
35 | This has two aspects : that all the members of a group were obliged to join in the fighting or threats ; and that there was some automatic trigger contained in the genealogy which determined the number of the combatants . |
36 | In all cases , however , a rule is something that is held and accepted as right and legitimate by the members of a group or society . |
37 | Combined with the fact that the members of a group have a very similar diet , all these activities produce a common smell of identity . |
38 | Dominance is a common , but not universal , kind of relationship between the members of a group , in which some animals , the dominant ones , have priority over others , the subordinate ones . |
39 | Some modern firms of accountants number hundreds of partners , and their appointment as arbitrators would be inconsistent with the concept of all the members of a tribunal playing a full role by , for instance , attending the hearing . |
40 | Instead information is being collected on the background and activities of all the members of a number of the quasi-groups who make up the core fans . |
41 | It is the members of a Children 's Hearing who will decide whether your child can return to live with you . |
42 | The first issue is when a formal agreement should be made between the members of a band . |
43 | ‘ She 's mine , ’ proclaims the stallion 's urine sprinkled over his mare 's dung ; ‘ I 'm ready , ’ states the oestrous mare 's urine ; ‘ we are we , ’ the members of a band affirm by rolling in the same spot . |
44 | Minor revenue posts , and as in this case , even the location of rented office space , were one of the more effective methods of impressing the members of a town council with what could be done for them , or to them . |
45 | If the members of a section want to vote for a full-time branch secretary , there was a member of that section , who 's been a full time branch secretary for longer than eighteen months , what right has anyone got to say they ca n't ? |
46 | The form of class consciousness is not however available to historical subjects , such as the members of a class , but has to be derived from an analysis of the totality . |
47 | 4 ) , that ‘ a class is not in itself a community ’ , that ‘ the emergence of societal , or even communal action from a common class situation is by no means a universal phenomenon ’ , and that ‘ the extent to which ‘ communal action ’ and possible ‘ societal action ’ does emerge from the ‘ mass actions ’ of the members of a class is linked to general cultural conditions ' . |
48 | However , perhaps the most important referent of community is geographical : a community is a social whole which is usually anchored in space ; the members of a community live and do various things together within some , at least vaguely , definable geographical area . |
49 | The conception of language that Saussure developed is that of a social phenomenon , realized not in the individual act of speaking , but ‘ only by virtue of a sort of contract signed by the members of a community ’ ( Saussure 1974 : 14 ) . |
50 | The slow homogenisation of large families could take many thousands of generations ; but chromosomes are constantly shared out among the members of a population . |
51 | Artificial selection means breeding only from a selected minority of the members of a population . |
52 | Identification among the members of a crowd , or group , leads to demands for all to be equal ; given the numbers involved , it is not possible for particular individuals to be the favourite , so a reaction-formation grows up , expressed as a group demand for social justice and equality . |
53 | … Then it is suggested that , although an individual can sue for a libel upon him in relation to his business , or even the members of a partnership may maintain a joint action for such a libel , yet that an incorporated company can not . |
54 | Each FOND refers to the members of a family that are present within a file , be it the System or a Font/DA Mover file — also called a Suitcase . |
55 | Monolithic state ownership is not the sole alternative to private property ; productive assets can , for example , be owned in common by the members of a co-operative , no individual member having a transferable property right in them . |
56 | For reasons that we shall discuss in Chapter 9 , the members of a colony of social insects co-operate with one another , and they will therefore give signal that are as informative as possible ; they will not usually give deceptive signals to fellow members of their colony . |
57 | Committees can become as tyrannical and authoritarian as individuals , and therefore the members of a worship committee need to take particular care to listen to comments or complaints from the congregation , and to take note of the varying temperaments and requirements of worshippers . |
58 | They come together much less frequently , from distinct and different settings , and they know much less about each other than do the members of a hospital team , who gain a natural and unforced understanding of each other 's roles and characteristics , and adapt accordingly . |
59 | Insofar as there is uniformity between the members of a nation , it is the result of nationalism ( and usually the creation of a State to enforce uniformity ) not the cause . |
60 | In the Nayar case the solidarity of the members of a taravad is one of common substance . |