Example sentences of "was [adv] a member [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | How would I know this Marie Savigny was secretly a member of the de Montfort coven , who wanted to come to England to plot mischief , perhaps even murder ? |
| 2 | Doreen 's eyes continued to dart from one to the other ; then she made an attempt to put Lucy in her place by reminding her that she was merely a member of the staff . |
| 3 | As he was only a member of the executive , with the same status as everybody else , they agreed , but then promptly let him down . |
| 4 | Robert Titford was already a member of the ship 's company when the Orynthia docked back in England in mid December , 1836 . |
| 5 | If you and your gran are as wise as you think you are , you 'll be as nice to him as if he was already a member of the family . |
| 6 | In the eyes of a deckhand in his twenties who joined the " Sunderland Union " in the days of John Beresford and who was already a member of the Australian Seamen 's Union , it seemed little more than a " miscellaneous collection of beards and whiskers " including " old greybeards of sixty , seventy and eighty years of age , with little idea of how to conduct business " , who " reflected the pessimistic outlook of their leaders , supposing that everything was wrong and that nothing could be put right " . |
| 7 | He went on : ‘ Although I was already a member of the Church of England before joining the Friends ’ School in 1937 , I lean very much towards the Quaker faith . |
| 8 | Ian Paisley was once a member of the Shankill Road Lodge of the Orange Order and a lodge chaplain , but he resigned from the Order when the County Grand Lodge refused to expel Sir Robin Kinahan for attending a funeral service in a Roman Catholic chapel . |
| 9 | Kilkelly , from Mayo , was once a member of the popular outfit Hotfoot and is a leading session musician . |
| 10 | He himself was once a member of the Moonies sect , was n't he ? |
| 11 | An elderly man named John Thomas , who was still a member of the Association of Foremen Lightermen but who had not worked in that capacity for some two years and who was now a watchman , was approached to join Harry Gosling 's Amalgamated Society of Watermen , Lightermen and Watchmen of the River Thames . |
| 12 | However , it was easy to see where the confusion lay , for Gannon was also a member of The Cradle . |
| 13 | He was also a member of the XL Club and played for the local Lloyds Bank XI . |
| 14 | He was also a member of the National Democratic Front ( NDF ) , the principal opposition group in the former Yemen Arab Republic . |
| 15 | IBM Japan Ltd , which restructured in January by creating two subsidiaries , one aimed at small and medium-sized companies and the other offering overall services including consultation and facilities management , has a new president , Kakutaro Kitashiro , who replaces Takeo Shiina , who was also a member of the IBM Corp main board , and is now non-executive chairman of IBM Japan : the new president is 48 years old , a 26-year veteran of IBM Japan , and possesses little of the charisma of the outgoing Shiina ; he rose rapidly through the ranks to a position of potential candidate for president in 1984 . |
| 16 | He was also a member of the Norwegian Institute of International affairs in Oslo for two years , and has served as a correspondent in Geneva and Cairo , among other places . |
| 17 | Llewellyn was a quick thinker , and gave the Masonic sign of distress on the faint chance that the trooper was also a member of the order . |
| 18 | He was also a member of the Contemporary Art Society . |
| 19 | He was also a member of the permanent commission of the International Railway Congress Association , in which he played a very active part , and a member of council of the Institution of Civil Engineers from 1928 to 1934 . |
| 20 | As a prominent parishioner of St Martin-in-the-Fields , Norton was also a member of the committee for the City of Westminster , along with his close friend and relation , Humphrey Edwardes , the regicide [ q.v . ] . |
| 21 | She was also a member of the National Society for Women 's Suffrage . |
| 22 | He was also a member of the advisory committee on aliens in Britain , and did what he could to ease the lot of refugees who managed to escape Nazi tyranny . |
| 23 | He was also a member of the Royal Society of Arts . |
| 24 | He continued to take a very active interest in its affairs , and he was also a member of the Institutions of Mechanical Engineers and Naval Architects and of the London Chamber of Commerce . |
| 25 | He was also a member of the Mafia , and he was up to his eyeballs in drugs . |
| 26 | She was also a member of the team that developed the recently launched New Initial Award in Management ( NIAM ) . |
| 27 | A long-serving member of the Cabinet , he had been appointed to President Robert Mugabe 's first independence government as Minister of Transport and Power in March 1980 , and was also a member of the ruling party 's political bureau , where he was Secretary for Youth . |
| 28 | Antonio ( whose ministerial duties were taken over by his deputy , Edmundo Carlos Alberto ) was the first member of the government to be held in connection with the plot ; he was also a member of the Frelimo central committee . |
| 29 | He was also a member of the Kilbarchan Masonic Lodge , number 156 . |
| 30 | He was also a member of the royal chapel choir , where he was classified as a taille or tenor . |