Example sentences of "[to-vb] for membership [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In November , Hungary became the first East European nation to apply for membership to the council based in Strasbourg , France . |
| 2 | In November , Hungary became the first East European nation to apply for membership to the council based in Strasbourg , France . |
| 3 | If you have served for 3 months or more in Her Majesty 's Royal Air Forces you are entitled to apply for membership of the Royal Air Forces Association . |
| 4 | We may one day achieve a position where a region may elect to disaffiliate from a dominant state , and become a European region without feeling it encumbent upon itself to apply for membership of the United Nations . |
| 5 | In the 1960s once Britain 's decision to apply for membership of the Community was blocked by President de Gaulle , WEU did serve as a conduit , no matter how limited , between Britain and the Six . |
| 6 | In fact , a great many of the most important decisions by British Governments have been introduced without any prior leave by the electorate as has been the case with respect to the repeal of the Corn Laws , 1846 , the passing of the Trades Disputes Act , 1927 , the departure from the Gold Standard in 1931 , the decision by the post-war Labour Government to opt for a nuclear-defence policy , the decision to apply for membership of the European Economic Community in 1961 , the passage of the Commonwealth Immigration Act , 1968 , as well as a host of foreign-policy matters over the years . |
| 7 | This conjecture was reinforced when , on May 28 , the North Korean Foreign Ministry issued a terse statement which announced that the government had decided to apply for membership of the UN . |
| 8 | [ For Soviet announcement in July of its intention to apply for membership in the IMF and World Bank , see p. 38348 . ] |