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

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1 In a modern industrial society economic goals are divisible , both because an increased standard of living is such a broad goal that success on one front can be presented to the members as a decent reward for abandoning some other aim , and because the economic goals of competing groups can be simultaneously satisfied provided there is economic growth .
2 When put to the members as a whole ( Extraordinary General Meeting , November 1984 ) , the proposal was lost , failing to secure the 2:1 majority .
3 He met Alderman Davis and discussed the advisability of the members on the council coming together again in order that they would be unanimous in open council , especially now that Labour is in the majority .
4 On 15th July 1991 we reported , as auditors of A. Layout Limited , to the members on the full financial statements prepared under s.226 of the Companies Act 1985 for the year ended 31st March 1991 and our audit report was as follows :
5 Er , it 's something that will be welcomed by the trade union movement , a new forward , a new beginning to join once again the fruits of our labour with partnership with other unions and the Labour Party which was what we all need , but it must be done with careful planning and the brains at the top of the union must be telling the of the union , the members on the shop floor , the right direction in which to walk .
6 This question is best answered by the remarks of the hon. Member for Islington , North , who courageously and clearly articulated the views of , I suspect , more than half the Members on the Opposition Benches .
7 Well , yes , just to look at the wh the question of balance of power between the employer on the one hand and the members on the other hand and then between the different categories of members the active payers-in , the pensioners and the deferred pensioners .
8 I 'd like to congratulate the officers and the members on the formulation of these decisions .
9 A differentiation was drawn between ‘ factual ’ agency for which express authority given by the members to the Council would have to be established , and ‘ constitutional ’ agency which could derive directly from the 6th International Tin Agreement .
10 Until Easter monthly meetings have been agreed , which reflects the commitment and enthusiasm of the members to the task which the Group has set itself .
11 went through the Revenue Account and the Balance Sheet for the year ended 31st December 1992 , which were printed on pages 13 and 14 of The Embalmer , Vol.36 , No 2 , Spring 1993 and the Finance Report printed on page 11. drew the attention of the Members to the growth in the number of registered students from 186 in June 1988 to 380 at present , and the consequent increase in registration fee income .
12 I was not consulted about membership of the Group , and with the exception of Dr Charles Suckling , a member of the Kingman Committee , I met the members for the first time when we assembled in London for our opening working session .
13 We 've got ta have a direction , and it 's not about who gets the best jobs and who gets the best power positions , it 's about dictating an agenda by the members for the members in the interests of our members , the T & g 's members and all trade unionists in this country .
14 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 .
15 The first issue is when a formal agreement should be made between the members of a band .
16 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 .
17 This has led them to postulate the existence of ‘ structures ’ in the animal 's head : in contrast , behaviourists are reluctant to say anything about what is in an animal 's head , other than that the members of a particular species have an innate tendency to be reinforced by some stimuli and not by others .
18 Insofar as there is uniformity between the members of a nation , it is the result of nationalism ( and usually the creation of a State to enforce uniformity ) not the cause .
19 Sometimes the members of a dialect group shared more than one distinct song .
20 The members of a Scheme will be the shareholding directors of a company , with a maximum of 12 .
21 A basic assumption of the weeding process is that the value of a book to the members of a particular library can be estimated from the use made of it .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 The slow homogenisation of large families could take many thousands of generations ; but chromosomes are constantly shared out among the members of a population .
25 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 .
26 However , perhaps the most important referent of community is geographical : a community is a social whole which is usually anchored in space ; the members of a community live and do various things together within some , at least vaguely , definable geographical area .
27 The number of boundaries of competence that exist for any given social entity may vary : the members of an isolated New Guinea society , all of whom perform virtually identical tasks according to age and sex , will have fewer than the members of a more complex society with a greater division of labour .
28 In 1127 the count of Flanders was murdered while at prayer in the church of St Donatian in Bruges by the members of a mainly clerical clan to whom he had done disservice ; and Henry and Louis intrigued with the local nobles to ensure the succession of a count to their liking .
29 Even among the members of a particular species , no two are alike in all respects .
30 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 .
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