Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] a member " in BNC.
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| 1 | That would be a fundamental change from the practice of Labour Governments of which the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook was a member . |
| 2 | Some of them would be outraged We certainly know that one of them was convinced by Jesus , Joseph of Arimathea was a member of the Sanhedrin and you know that , that later on we 're told of Joseph of Arimathea , but what did he do Michael do you know , does anybody know what Joseph of Arimathea did ? |
| 3 | Mr Walker was a member of the team which pioneered kidney transplants in the NorthEast , in his capacity as reader and honorary consultant surgeon to Durham University and the Royal Victoria Infirmary , Newcastle . |
| 4 | He studied the security card in greater detail , noting that Paul Henry James Manville was a member of that small elite within the CIA who enjoyed the privilege of a top-security ‘ Q ’ classification . |
| 5 | European Community ( EC ) foreign ministers agreed on July 20 in Brussels to defer until autumn the proposed upgrading of a co-operation accord with the Association of South-East Asian Nations ( ASEAN , of which Indonesia was a member — see also p. 39005 ) after hearing an account of human rights abuses by the Indonesian army in East Timor from Joao de Deus Pinheiro , the Portuguese Foreign Affairs Minister . |
| 6 | And mum Arlene was a member of the Northern Ireland athletics team , and held the NI record for the 800 metres . |
| 7 | A member of the Bouchier family served under Henry VIII at the Field of the Cloth of Gold , and later in the reign of Charles I , Sir John Bouchier was a member of the Long Parliament and one of those responsible for the King 's death . |
| 8 | Srifi was a member of a banned left wing group Ila'l-Amam ( Forward ) . |
| 9 | The appointment by the incoming Labour government of the Macmillan Committee , of which Keynes was a member , gave him another chance to carry through his revolution in policy . |
| 10 | Spenser was a member of this third group . |
| 11 | Well there used to be one on the corner of Street and Street that was , that was a pawnshop right opposite the churches facing it the church were on the one corner Street and used to be on the opposite corner , and Johnny was a member of the church choir as I was after I was ten years ol ten years old , I Mr he must have thought I could sing he sent me down to St Paul 's and I , I went to St Paul 's Church on the corner of Street and I did n't stay there long because it was I was still working part- time I was still a schoolboy but er I did sing in the choir at St Paul 's Church for a time , and then I went , I went back to St Mary 's and All Saints in Palfry as a choirboy and er we used to have choir practice once or twice a week , I know we had it Wednesday night , the choir master was Albert Edward he was a butcher , kept a butcher 's shop on the corner of and |
| 12 | Waring was a member of the crowd and alleged that the Constable struck him , and when he refused his name and address , took him into custody on a charge of obstructing the traffic . |
| 13 | For one brief moment , it seemed as if there might be a conventional route to fame , through the young director Roman Polanski who had just entered the fast new Hollywood crowd of which Nicholson was a member , as was his friend Robert Evans , who had been recently appointed vice president of Paramount and in charge of all new production projects . |
| 14 | Poindexter kept in his study a poster with the words ‘ Blessed are the Peacemakers ’ though possibly it had been put there by his minister-wife ; North was a member of an officers ' prayer group that prayed regularly for peace , particularly in the Gulf . |
| 15 | Gould was a member of the so-called tobacco contractors who in 1698 had secured from Peter the Great the right to export tobacco from England to Russia . |
| 16 | Steve Chapman says that he comes from the Shennington club and Nigel was a member there … he jokes that mansell was a big an idiot as all of them … breaking in the wrong place and that sort of thing |
| 17 | Darwin was a member of the landed aristocracy who had flirted with theology at Cambridge before becoming a highly respected naturalist . |
| 18 | Brazil was a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) , but although it had signed the 1967 Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America ( the Treaty of Tlatelolco — see p. 22505 ) it had not signed the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT — see p. 22787 ) , and for this reason had been allowed no international shipments of nuclear fuel since 1978 . |
| 19 | The Trog was a member of the 3″ Mortar team . |
| 20 | The visionary at Much Wenlock was a member of a community founded , according to its own tradition , by Mildburh , daughter of Merewalh and a princess of the Magonsaete . |
| 21 | Mr McWhinney was a member of the Ulster Flying Club and a popular figure among the province 's fliers . |
| 22 | According to a report from the Paris radio station France Inter , Fety was a member of " an extremist faction " aligned to the opposition Comité des forces vives . |
| 23 | Althusser 's influence declined in France after 1968 , partly as a result of the role played by the PCF , of which Althusser was a member , in the events of May 1968 , and partly as an effect of a number of critiques of his work , some of them by Althusser himself . |
| 24 | Lord Griffiths was a member of the committee . |
| 25 | I hope all of you know or have met this good friend of the Hundred I 'm sure that most of you have and he has with him today a guest from Germany , Herr and his charming daughter er and Mr was a member of the and has provided invaluable information here , who as you know is doing a , a comprehensive book on the monster mission and in commemoration of what we have done today , we have a letter addressed to er the Hundredth Bomb Group Memorial Association U K , from the Most Reverend Doctor the Bishop of Munster which I would like to read to you . |
| 26 | Since Ralph de Faye was a member of the house of the Viscounts of Cha tellerault this means that with the one exception of the Viscount of Thouars — who had earlier suffered badly as the result of a quarrel with Eleanor — she had been joined by all the leading barons of Poitou and the Angoumois . |
| 27 | During the war of 1914–18 Robinson was a member of the railway workshops manufacturing committee . |
| 28 | Duncan was a member of the 14th INT , a small and select group of SAS members who were responsible for intelligence . |
| 29 | Whereas Farah Aydid was a member of the Habar Gedir sub-clan of the Hawiye tribe ( which predominated in the USC ) , Mahdi Mohammed was from the Abgal sub-clan of the Hawiyes . |
| 30 | Isolated press reports at the time had noted that most of these forces were from the Nuer tribe , and their victims had been mainly from the Dinka tribe , of which Garang was a member . |