Example sentences of "[Wh pn] sit [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I would like to say thank you to the people who sit on the budget review sub- committee , a committee which actually I do n't attend as often as I probably ought to , particularly to the labour spokesperson , for the way he 's guided the committee , both from within the chair and at other times , on it 's work this year , to be able to propose a budget which erm , so well fulfils the aims that many of us had when we were elected in May , which were of course , to maintain services , er , to squeeze efficiency out of the sy into the system and squeeze any waste out , and to get our officers working towards zero base budgets . |
| 2 | This constellation of interests includes entrepreneurial capitalists , internal capitalists who sit on the board , and finance capitalists . |
| 3 | Those who sit on the Treasury Bench make claims about average net income increases . |
| 4 | If , with the help of all the civil servants who advise Ministers and who sit under the Gallery and elsewhere , one worked on a policy to create crime , one could not come up with anything better than what the Government have created in the past 12 years . |
| 5 | All chintz curtains and birdcages in the windows , many of them are the homes of old railwaymen who sit by the fire , dreaming of Gresley Pacifics and Stanier Jubilees . |
| 6 | Adelaida points out the different groups : the ‘ grandmothers ’ , who sit in the sun spinning and chatting ; the ‘ complete illiterates ’ , mostly older Aymara women who are making their first letters with painstaking care ; the ’ functional illiterates ’ who have had some schooling and progress more rapidly ; and the groups which practise their recently acquired literacy skills using materials on health and nutrition . |
| 7 | The next senior are Lords Justices of Appeal who sit in the Court of Appeal . |
| 8 | Judges who sit in the Crown Court tend to be slightly older than magistrates on average ( around 60 for judges and 56 for lay justices ) . |
| 9 | In many cases students will also tour in productions mounted by the school , and this gives good audience experience away from the greenhouse of school performances , where the people who sit in the audience are usually either professionally interested , or are fellow students and friends . |
| 10 | I 'm , I 'm certainly as I was going to come on to explain and the way you will see ourselves working , is not people who sit in the Town Hall and just turn out reports , I mean the kind of work we do and the way we work means that were actually very much involved in the community groups , but I mean if it was , if it was thought to be an issue that we needed to have greater community involvement , i.e. to resurrecting that forum then that 's something that , you know , we may need to address , but I never saw it as operating like that anyway , I mean I saw it as it 's almost like in a cabinet of members mainly . . |
| 11 | The crew comprises a commander and gunner , who sit in the turret , and a driver . |
| 12 | If people are gon na sit around the house while they 're unemployed , they 're probably the same people who sit around the house when they 're on a Saturday and Sunday when they 're working you know . |