Example sentences of "members [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Smith admitted that one of its tasks will be to educate the party 's own members about the environmental message .
2 DORCISS will seek to achieve the above objectives by promoting the exchange of information and experience between members through an annual conference and by means of at least two management development workshops per year .
3 However , the Club continued to spend money on itself , including extensive tree planting , true as ever to its traditional means of acquiring more members through an attractive club and course .
4 Professor Saville has written that the old unions ‘ were able to rely upon the skill of their members as a crucial bargaining weapon ’ but ‘ the new unionists were at all times , even in years of good trade , subject to the pressures of an over-stocked labour market ’ .
5 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 .
6 She was described by parents and Action Committee members as a hard woman , with no emotion , no compassion .
7 For Schein , it is ‘ the pattern of basic assumptions that a given group has invented , discovered , or developed , in learning to cope with its problems of external adaptation and internal integration , and that have worked well enough to be considered valid and , therefore , to be taught to new members as the correct way to perceive , think and feel in relation to these problems . ’
8 Morty Bahr , the CWA 's president , has presented the deal to his members as an unprecedented chance for the union to have a hand in corporate decision-making ; he wants the CWA to be a model for other American unions .
9 A referendum held in 1980 rejected the restoration of political parties ( proscribed by the King in 1961 ) but decided in favour of retaining the panchayat system with limited reforms , namely ; ( i ) the election to the Rashtriya Panchayat by universal adult franchise of 112 members for a five-year term ( the remaining 28 members being nominated by the King ) ; and ( ii ) the appointment of the Council of Ministers on the recommendation of the Prime Minister ( elected by the Rashtriya Panchayat ) .
10 Elections were held on June 17 to choose 60 provincially elected members for a four-year term in the 72-member unicameral National Congress .
11 The EC duns members for a fixed share of their VAT receipts .
12 Over 200 people have become members for a nominal fee , but where are they ? ’
13 The programme should guide WACC in the ensuing years and prepare its members for the second World Congress in 1995 .
14 Continuing a process of democratization which began with the election of all 950 members for the Tirupati plenum by the party 's rank and file , elections were held for the first time in more than 20 years for party posts including the 10 elective posts in the party 's most senior decision-making body , the Congress working committee ( CWC ) .
15 The Ostankino company had agreed to pay the costs of transmission to the other CIS members for the first quarter of 1992 , but no decisions had been reached on covering the costs for the rest of the year .
16 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 .
17 The thrill of crossing the Knucklas viaduct with its castellated ends , some members for the first time .
18 Is he also aware that he has the united resolve of Conservative Members for the speedy passage of his Bill ?
19 These decisions , supported respectively by 23 and 32 countries , provoked a walkout by the Dutch delegate , who complained that they exemplified the lack of consideration of the larger EC members for the smaller member countries , and that the outcome of the voting had been " deviously stage-managed " to present a fait accompli based on an Anglo-French deal reached at the IMF Group of 7 meeting on May 6 [ see p. 37474 ] .
20 Also special mention must go to , President of Hull and District Catholic Women 's Luncheon Club and all members for the generous cheque for £400 .
21 Four unions have started a recruitment drive for new members after an eight year ban on union membership at the base .
22 An instructive example of members of a peaceful society being suddenly propelled into a situation in which violence was rewarded is provided by the Semai of Malaysia .
23 She was also one of the founder members of a super pool of judges which brought more than 450 Mafia members to trial .
24 Those who are studying on a part-time basis as members of a regional course do so as non-residential students , with regular residential weekends and summer schools .
25 According to official Soviet sources , members of a paramilitary group called the Mkhedrioni , allied to the pro-Congress parties , on the evening of Sept. 18 kidnapped and assaulted Vazh Adamiya , a prominent figure in the rival Round Table coalition , and afterwards exchanged gunfire with Round Table supporters on Tbilisi 's main Rustaveli Prospekt .
26 By comparison , we look like members of a Russian rock'n'roll group .
27 The general principle is that advocates ' rights should be determined only by whether they are properly trained and members of a professional body whose rules of conduct are ‘ appropriate in the interests of justice in relation to the court or proceedings concerned ’ .
28 As I recall , the grand swell of opposition which occurred with regard to abandoning the classes of corporate membership and allowing self-advertisement by members of a professional body was not heeded .
29 The other is the idea of political equality which presupposes that ‘ the weaker members of a political community are entitled to the same concern and respect of their government as the more powerful members have secured for themselves , so that if some men have freedom of decision whatever the effect on the general good , then all men must have the same freedom ’ ( Dworkin , 1978 , p. 199 ) .
30 This idea of political equality , he suggested , presupposed that ‘ the weaker members of a political community are entitled to the same concern and respect of their government as the more powerful members have secured for themselves , so that if some men have freedom whatever the effect on the general good , all men must have the same freedom ’ .
  Next page