Example sentences of "the member [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When put to the members as a whole ( Extraordinary General Meeting , November 1984 ) , the proposal was lost , failing to secure the 2:1 majority . |
| 2 | Prior to the nineteenth century the English word " family " was used in just this way to denote the members of a household , especially the servants , who , in the more affluent social classes , always greatly outnumbered the inner kin-group of parents and children . |
| 3 | The members of a Scheme will be the shareholding directors of a company , with a maximum of 12 . |
| 4 | The largest questions the members of a management partnership must answer are whether sharing is practicable , whether its members believe in it and how long — if it is a reality — it takes the outside world to believe that it can provide the promised level of quality . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We all know that all sorts of manipulations take place during the appointment of the members of a Committee . |
| 7 | It is entirely possible that this mechanism does operate , and that the members of a herd do use these clues when looking at one another . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | What can differ among the members of a species is the contents of those locations . |
| 10 | ( 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 . |
| 11 | ( 7 ) The members of a licensing board for an islands area or licensing division of an islands area shall be elected at a meeting of the council of the islands area to be held on a date between May 16 , 1977 and June 30 , 1977 to be determined by the council , 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 . |
| 12 | ( 3 ) One half of the members of a licensing board ( and in no case less than three members ) shall be a quorum for any meeting of the board to discharge functions mentioned in subsection ( 2 ) above . |
| 13 | Sometimes the members of a dialect group shared more than one distinct song . |
| 14 | It is essential that the members of a history department do not see the introduction of National Curriculum history as their entire curriculum . |
| 15 | If an individual or the members of a firm may sue for a libel imputing to them insolvency , because of the damage which such a libel is calculated to do them in relation to their business , could it possibly be maintained that a trading corporation could not sue for a like libel ? … |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Whatever type of service is developed , the most important factors would appear to be that , first , the members of a service should be enthusiastic about dealing with attempted suicide patients ; secondly , they should receive appropriate training in assessment and management ; and thirdly , supervision by experienced staff should be available . |
| 18 | In addition , Franco would appoint the members of a Council of the Realm , to which his successor would eventually be responsible , and would also designate a Council of Regency , which would take his place until a successor was chosen , in the event that the Caudillo died without naming one . |
| 19 | When the members of a sample are observed once at a single point of time , the study is termed cross-sectional . |
| 20 | When one of the most energetic spokesmen for applied science in nineteenth-century Britain , Lyon Playfair , addressed the members of a mechanics institute in 1853 , he unashamedly declared that ‘ science is a religion and its philosophers are the priests of nature . ’ |
| 21 | The terms ‘ adequate ’ and ‘ wellbeing ’ , not to mention ‘ standard of living ’ and even ‘ medical care ’ , are purely subjective : to prescribe a ‘ standard adequate for wellbeing ’ is not to interpret a rule ; it is to make an arbitrary decision , and an arbitrary decision about the compulsion to be exerted upon the members of a society . |
| 22 | If all were clear , undilemmatic and utterly consistent for the members of a society , there would be nothing for them to argue about , and thereby nothing about which to deliberate . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ) : |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Combined with the fact that the members of a group have a very similar diet , all these activities produce a common smell of identity . |
| 30 | 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 . |