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

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1 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 .
2 She was also one of the founder members of a super pool of judges which brought more than 450 Mafia members to trial .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 The fossil record suggests that the largest members of a phyletic series usually had the most reason to be apprehensive of the future .
6 By comparison , we look like members of a Russian rock'n'roll group .
7 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 ’ .
8 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 .
9 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 ) .
10 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 ’ .
11 The Maud Committee , for example , distinguished between councillors who were members of a political party and those who were not , but did not take the analysis any further .
12 Private court patronage was not just a reserve of employment for members of a political interest , however , for there was danger in it for the patron .
13 Those who graduated from the KESA had made it as members of a close-knit elite .
14 In January 1990 13 members of a religious sect were arrested and charged with the murder of a family of five in Kirtland , Ohio .
15 On March 21 , 1990 , police in Ankara , Istanbul and Malatya ( about 500 km east of Ankara ) arrested members of a religious group allegedly committed to the creation of an Islamic state .
16 ‘ IT IS time trade union leaders realised that what they perceive as power merely prolongs their political impotence and deprives their members of a telling voice in the corridor of power .
17 With its uniquely detailed account of all the members of a rural community , the book has established Gough as the most important of the early parish historians .
18 Problems were now far more likely to arise in determining the rights of succession among competing members of a princely family .
19 I trust , I trust that if there 's going to be any question of names coming forward to be a approved locally , not selected , I hope not selected , that they will be er they 'll come from the local level at which the police authority actually functions and not from other counties without that particular area and so My Lords , I would suggest er that er the best step to go for is er Lord MacIntosh 's Amendment Number Five and his er supplements and I would suggest My Lords that Amendment Number Twenty is resisted by your Lordships because it talks about one half of the members shall be members of a relevant council and I suggest above all My Lords that Amendment Number Twenty Seven is cast into outer darkness .
20 Very briefly , on Locke 's account , members of a civil society are obliged to obey the rules of that society simply because they have agreed to do so .
21 In short Locke wants to drive a wedge between our rights as private individuals and our rights as members of a civil society .
22 Semi-skilled or unskilled workers usually find it harder to find a basis upon which to exercise occupational control and are more often either non-union or members of a general union which does not afford a platform to develop such control .
23 We have therefore compared a group of coal miners and an age and sex matched group of subjects selected from the members of a general population screening study .
24 Members of a breakaway group who blocked traffic in University Square the same evening were forcibly dispersed by police .
25 Previous restrictions on the transfer of shares in private companies and the limit on the number of members of a private company have been removed .
26 Under previous legislation , it was a defence for the publisher to show that his intention was to publish only to members of a private association or group of which the publisher or distributor was a member .
27 Suppose that the payoff to all the members of a small group is greater if all cooperate than if all defect .
28 Under the prevailing laws only some 20,000 traditional chiefs ( Matai ) were allowed to vote in elections to 45 seats in the Fono , while voters of European blood who were not members of a Matai family elected the remaining two seats .
29 If members of a conquering nation called upon the nation they had conquered and continued to hold down to forget their specific nationality and position , to ‘ sink national differences ’ and so forth , that was not internationalism , it was nothing else but preaching to them submission to the yoke , and attempting to justify and perpetuate the domination of the conqueror under the cloak of internationalism .
30 For the visual computations algorithmically defined by Ullman do not depend on high-level processes capable of identifying ( recognizing ) objects as members of a specific class : the system does not need to know that an object is a fish , or even that it has the 3-D shape that it has , in order to know that it is an object .
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