Example sentences of "member [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the meeting the NGC members pressed for the appointment of Prince Sihanouk as SNC chair and " 13th member " , an option which was unacceptable to the SOC delegates who claimed that this would provide the NGC with a " seven to six " advantage . |
| 2 | Unfortunately this can not be done in the UK House of Commons , and the cameraman has to identify the Member who has been called , often in the midst of a throng of Members competing for the Speaker 's eye , and then to add the computerized caption . |
| 3 | Scargill hoped for a ‘ domino effect ’ , to be promoted if necessary by the type of mass picketing which had been perfected a decade earlier , and the National Executive supported him ; only three members voted for a proposal that the demand for a national strike be put to a national ballot . |
| 4 | If I could just add my thanks to the officers substantial piece of work , which is , I hope going to be used by many members to come for the next year . |
| 5 | Dinner guest : Tuesday night saw the annual dinner of the area British Legion Club with members meeting for a meal at the Stanwick Arms . |
| 6 | Debate in the early days of the new Assembly was reported as more lively than previously , and opposition members were said to be testing the government 's receptiveness to reform : 32 members called for the formation of a committee to investigate Kuwait 's failure to anticipate or respond to the Iraqi invasion of August 1990 [ see pp. 37631-41 ] ; several members were said to have demanded an investigation of alleged mishandling of Kuwait 's overseas investments ; and a draft law was introduced that would widen the franchise , including extending the vote to women . |
| 7 | Against the background of a broad spectrum of strikes organized on April 21 , April 27 and June 2 , 1989 , by the socialist General Workers ' Union ( Unión General de Trabajadores — UGT ) and the communist Workers ' Commissions ( Comisiones Obreras — CCOO ) , the UGT executive decided for the first time on April 25 to give no recommendation to its members to vote for the PSOE in the European Parliament elections in June 1989 , on the grounds that a trade union could not be expected to support a government which pursued economic and social policies which were hostile to workers . |
| 8 | Margaret Wilson , who chairs the residents ' organisation , has written to the licensing board to encourage members to vote for the proposals . |
| 9 | Members ballot for a right to choose a topic and speak . |
| 10 | Members ballot for the right to introduce bills on Fridays allocated to this purpose . |
| 11 | Richard Dunstan of AI 's Refugee Office urges members to campaign for a new Asylum Bill , Here 's why … |
| 12 | The recession that we 've gone through in materials and elsewhere in the economy has taught us , or should have taught us I believe , a very clear lesson and that is that we must end the situation that 's in the building materials industry where our members rely for a reasonable standard of living on bonus earnings the problem being of course that as soon as the recession starts to bite , then the bonus pay becomes very vulnerable to attack and reduction by the employers . |
| 13 | Most council members opted for the retention of the Lancashire and Yorkshire County Cup competitions , possibly as a pre-season competition , but with mandatory participation . |
| 14 | In the event , members settled for a subscription levy of £11 over each of seven years ( commuted to give ) or £55 single payment . |
| 15 | London financier Dennis Oliver has mobilised a group of MCC members to call for a special meeting of the club to protest about Gower 's absence . |
| 16 | The Victoria Rottweiler Club actually owns its own tattoo machine and members apply for a number from the secretary of the club . |
| 17 | The Federal Parliament comprises a Senate of 104 members appointed by the Governor-General , and a House of Commons of 295 members elected for a maximum of five years by universal adult suffrage under a simple majority system in single-member constituencies . |
| 18 | Legislative power is held by a 72-member unicameral National Congress , similarly elected for a four-year term ( with 60 members elected on a provincial basis every two years and 12 members elected for a four-year term on a national basis ) . |
| 19 | Legislative authority is vested in a bicameral National Congress , comprising the Chamber of Deputies ( consisting of 180 members elected for a five-year term ) and the Senate ( consisting of 60 members elected for a five-year term along with the former Presidents of constitutional governments who have the status of life senators ) . |
| 20 | Legislative authority is vested in a bicameral National Congress , comprising the Chamber of Deputies ( consisting of 180 members elected for a five-year term ) and the Senate ( consisting of 60 members elected for a five-year term along with the former Presidents of constitutional governments who have the status of life senators ) . |
| 21 | Under its 1949 Basic Law ( Constitution ) , the Federal Republic of Germany ( West Germany ) is a " democratic and social federal state " whose organs are ( i ) the Federal Diet ( Bundestag ) , the lower house of parliament , comprising 497 members elected for a four-year term by a mixed system of proportional representation and direct voting , and 22 members elected by the West Berlin House of Representatives ; ( ii ) the Federal Council ( Bundesrat ) , the upper house of parliament , comprising 41 members of the governments of the Republic 's 10 Länder ( states ) and four representatives appointed by the West Berlin Senate ; ( iii ) the Federal President ( Bundespräsident — currently Richard von Weizsäcker ) elected for a five-year term by the Federal Assembly ( Bundesversammlung ) comprising the members of the Bundestag and an equal number of delegates nominated by the Länder parliaments ; and ( iv ) the federal government ( Bundesregierung ) consisting of the Federal Chancellor ( Bundeskanzler — currently Helmut Kohl ) elected by the Bundestag on the proposal of the Federal President and his or her ministers . |
| 22 | The Federal Parliament comprises a Senate of 104 members and a House of Commons of 295 members elected for a maximum of five years by universal adult suffrage under a simple majority system in single-member constituencies . |
| 23 | In the March 1990 general election the NDC won seven of the 15 seats in the House of Representatives and formed a government with the support of the two members elected for the TNP [ see p. 37314 ] . |
| 24 | Cuts in the amount of money spent on direct services to patients as opposed to buildings mean that in wards where few staff members care for a large number of patients standards of care fall well below tolerable levels . |
| 25 | For the number of members required for a quorum , see s.5(3) . |
| 26 | The meeting fell short of the five members required for a quorum , with Bosnia-Hercegovina , Croatia , Macedonia and Slovenia not attending . |
| 27 | When this failed , the union instructed their members working for the butcher that , if he continued to buy L's meat , they were to cease work . |
| 28 | The party 's base is in the unions , most of whose members work for the state : for its bloated railways , its idle port authority , the dark light-and-power company , the incompetent civil and education services . |
| 29 | His comments came at the start of the monthly meeting of Castlereagh Council last night where members stood for a minute 's silence in tribute to the four Catholic workmen killed in Castlerock and the two young victims of the IRA Warrington blast . |
| 30 | The Down Orange Welfare and Ulster Service Corps ( both rural and small town ) have not had a single member imprisoned for a terrorist offence nor has the rural section of the Orange Volunteers . |