Example sentences of "the member [prep] [art] [n mass] " in BNC.

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1 In any one place the two species mimic each other , looking much the same ; but in different places the members of a species differ : both species vary geographically in the same manner .
2 What can differ among the members of a species is the contents of those locations .
3 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 .
4 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 ) :
5 ‘ Now , ’ he said , ‘ the members of the staff .
6 The current research interests of the members of the staff include International Economic Law , Legal regulation of international economic transactions , e.g. International Codes of Conducts for Transnational Corporations and Transfer of Technology , patterns of international regulation in international legal system , regional integration , international regulation of narcotic drugs , law of the sea , human rights , international humanitarian law .
7 The members of the People 's Will convinced themselves that in hounding the Tsar they acted in the name of the people , but their ‘ subconscious ideal ’ , never fully achieved , ‘ was of a militant authoritarian party imposing its will on the masses . ’
8 We thank all the VAST field , laboratory , computer centre , and administrative staff , especially Mr Martin Adjuik , Mr Azumah Amidini , Mr J Kwabena Badu , Ms Margaret Gyapong , Mr Eric Kasise , Mr Ogyebre Owusu-Agyei , and Mr David Pendlebury ; the population of Kassena-Nankana District and their leaders ; the Regional and District Administration and Health Services ; Dr Moses Adibo and Dr Sam Adjei , ( Ministry of Health of Ghana ) for support and encouragement ; Prof Patrick Vaughan and other colleagues at the LSHTM for support and advice ; Ms Nina Saroi for administrative and secretarial support in London ; Dr Sandra Saenz de Tejada and the WHO-ARI Programme for preliminary study of local concepts and terminology of illness ; Ms Gilly Maude for the randomisation and interim analysis ; Ms Sharon Huttly , Mr Ben Amenuvegbe , and the late Mr Steve Tulloch for helping to design the data management system ; Dr Hazel Inskip and Mr Jerry Wheeler for advice on data processing ; Ms Penny Fennell for help with the training of the computing and secretarial staff ; Ms Rebecca Abbott and Dr Suzanne Filteau ( Institute of Child Health , London ) for measuring serum retinol ; Dr Andy Hall for helping to code the cause of death questionnaires ; and the members of the data monitoring committee for reviewing the interim results .
9 ‘ First , the members of the Media Commission will represent the interests of both the government and the opposition , as well as various professional and sectoral interests .
10 Line managers might refuse to accept the member of a staff department to fill a vacancy in their department .
11 Another way of looking at the process is to regard the member of the pair of particles that falls into the black hole — ; the antiparticle , say — as being really a particle that is traveling backward in time Thus , the antiparticle falling into the black hole can be regarded as a particle coming out of the black hole but traveling backward in time .
12 On making a very despondent journey home my wife greeted me at the door with the astounding statement that the property had been found and handed into a branch of a building society and the member of the staff had telephoned to inform my wife that it was there to collect .
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