Example sentences of "[det] the members " in BNC.

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1 At this point it is really interesting to note the variety of activities that the members of my class regard as ‘ useful ’ .
2 Did you get the feeling when you moved about that the members felt this that the the organizers of the union was a wee bit adrift ?
3 In a Spanish fund , more than half the members of its decision-making board must be employee representatives .
4 Groupe St. Louis was the largest shareholder in Arjomari , with a shareholding of 45% and the right to appoint up to half the members of the Supervisory Board or the bodies legally representing the undertaking .
5 The current level of intelligence is so poor that over half the members of active service units on the mainland have no previous police or intelligence ‘ form ’ ( which is one reason why internment would not work ) .
6 THE Oval Office may be occupied by a self-confessed non-inhaler ; half the members of the cabinet may have marched against the Vietnam war ; and the first and second ladies may spend their spare time grooving to the Grateful Dead .
7 For , whereas women make up over half the members of society at large , in higher education they are very definitely in a minority .
8 How do you bring a group of people together to work on an equal basis when half the members of the group are experienced non-disabled professionals who are used to taking control ?
9 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 .
10 In a new government led by Hans Modrow , in place of Krenz , nearly half the members are non-communists [ pp. 37024-26 ] .
11 ( Although half the members of the upper house were due for re-election in mid-1992 , elections in the lower house were not due for another two years . )
12 However , Tsar Nicholas II still retained formidable powers — ; an absolute veto on all legislation , full control of foreign affairs , he had emergency powers under Article 87 , and appointed half the members of the state council , which could veto the Duma .
13 He also plans to take out full-page newspaper advertisements , listing the names and telephone numbers of all the members of the Knesset who opposed repealing the law .
14 And generally it is the case that the personal security of the part-time reserve police is most at risk of all the members of the RUC , because of the difficulties of maintaining three identities ( police officer , member of family and neighbourhood network , and employee ) , with their associated and sometimes conflicting modes of discourse and thinking .
15 Not all the members of the Church welcomed the instantaneousness of resignation and appointment .
16 To avoid unnecessary disputes , draw up a list of equipment and its owners so that it can be agreed by all the members of the band .
17 Some countries — such as France — see EMU as a way of winning back some power from the West Germans , since a European central bank would mean all the members of the EC having a say in how policy is conducted .
18 All the members of the Forum say they want to avoid a split at this month 's conference ; but most now reckon a split is unavoidable .
19 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 .
20 If someone from Faraj comes to blows with someone from Fadhil , all the members of the groups descended from Muhammad should unite against all those descended from Mahmud .
21 In 1889 , all the members of the Nez Perce tribe were offered allotments of 160 acres on the Lapwai Reservation ; the surplus to be sold to the highest bidder .
22 Since all the members of this class wish to preserve the status quo , they unite politically to support conservative regimes and oppose radical forces that propose significant social changes .
23 Since all the members of the family made no attempt to hide their feelings of antipathy , Mathilde 's behaviour was in itself not particularly remarked on by those who packed the huge interior of Notre Dame :
24 In general , nearly all the Members I interviewed felt that their own lives and life style ( leaving aside their use of procedures ) had not changed greatly since the coming of television .
25 All the members , however retain their links to current clubs and will compete for them in league and cup matches .
26 Almost all the members of SAVE 's initial committee were under thirty and the first starry-eyed plans of raising £15,000 in the City to set up a well-equipped office and a secretary for one year came to nothing .
27 Virtually all the members of the South Wales Area of the NUM had obeyed the strike call when it had gone out in 1984 .
28 There has to be a willingness among all the members of such a group to be prepared to give and take , to offer criticism and receive it , to encourage and to be encouraged etc . ’
29 Like all the members of staff , Miss Smith was dedicated to her work and she gave us a fine start in life .
30 Some of his biology is not too sound ; his statement that the gulls of the northern hemisphere may be exceptional — ‘ In the majority of species such gradual variation is not seen , and all the members are equally interfertile ’ — seems based on a plentiful lack of knowledge of the work that has been done on geographical variation in many groups of animals , including birds .
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