Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] members [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 3 ) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions , regard may be had to the previous conduct and activities in business or financial matters of the person in question and , in particular , to any evidence that he has — ( a ) committed an offence involving fraud or other dishonesty or violence ; ( b ) contravened any provision made by or under any enactment appearing to the Bank to be designed for protecting members of the public against financial loss due to dishonesty , incompetence or malpractice … ( c ) engaged in any business practices appearing to the Bank to be deceitful or oppressive or otherwise improper ( whether unlawful or not ) or which otherwise reflect discredit on his method of conducting business ; ( d ) engaged in or been associated with any other business practices or otherwise conducted himself in such a way as to cast doubt on his competence and soundness of judgement . |
| 2 | He is also thought to be considering bringing members of the public into every school inspection team . |
| 3 | The system of co-opting members of the public to serve on council committees can be a good one , for in this way specialised knowledge , information and service can be recruited to the council 's activities . |
| 4 | In recent years the practice has developed , on the initiative of the financial futures market , of allowing members onto the floor who are not themselves clearing members . |
| 5 | The provisions of paragraphs ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) above shall not apply so as to make it unlawful for a motor vehicle to be fitted with an instrument or apparatus other than a two-tone horn designed to emit a sound for the purpose of informing members of the public that goods are on the vehicle for sale . |
| 6 | The choice of co-opted members to the governing body provides , opportunities to make statements about the direction that the school intends to take . |
| 7 | Many councils at their annual meeting appoint co-opted members to serve on their committees , although other councils leave the selection of co-opted members to the committees themselves . |
| 8 | They are also much appreciated by members but tend to run the risk of segregating members from the activities of the normal community . |
| 9 | Rawlings , who had retired from the air force on Sept. 14 in order to comply with electoral rules excluding serving members of the armed forces from candidacy , stood for the National Democratic Congress ( NDC ) [ see p. 39084 ] . |
| 10 | When there is a rhythm between experience and insight , between catechesis and liturgy , those who are handicapped in mind and body can grow into contributing members of the community of faith . |
| 11 | Although Pinochet reportedly had no official contacts with serving members of the Ecuadorian armed forces , he had visited a military social centre there and met retired officers . |
| 12 | Because after you listen to the evidence will be that these are professional officers doing a very difficult job and members of the public , members of the jury create very dated job they have the one objective I 've told you about to protect members of the public from further harm from what they thought was an armed criminal on the run . |
| 13 | Former minister John Humphrey , who had accused the new party of racism in favouring members of the " East " Indian community , failed to win a post . |
| 14 | This type of information may well be gleaned from interviewing members of the directorate — the chief executive , vice presidents , general managers and , perhaps , divisional managers . |
| 15 | ( 2 ) In appointing members of the Funding Council the Secretary of State — ( a ) shall have regard to the desirability of including persons who appear to him to have experience of , and to have shown capacity in , the provision of further education ( within the meaning of section 1(5) ( b ) of the 1980 Act ) or to have held , and to have shown capacity in , any position carrying responsibility for the provision of such further education and , in appointing such persons , he shall have regard to the desirability of their being currently engaged in the provision of such further education or in carrying responsibility for such provision ; and ( b ) shall have regard to the desirability of including persons who appear to him to have experience of , and to have shown capacity in , industrial , commercial or financial matters or the practice of any profession . |
| 16 | Today the Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke refused to accept that the security services were involved in taping members of the Royal family … |
| 17 | Under the established system for electing members to the House of Commons , each elector has only one vote in a general election ; each constituency returns only one Member of Parliament ; and Members of the House of Commons are elected on a first-past-the-post ( winner takes all ) system whereby the candidate with the most votes wins the seat whether or not he or she has an overall majority of all the votes cast in the constituency . |
| 18 | The use of water cannon was criticised as having been unnecessary and for affecting members of the public who had not been involved in the march . |
| 19 | PRINCE Michael of Kent has launched a thinly veiled attack on freeloading members of the royal family . |
| 20 | Will he reconsider his decision on meeting members of the Scottish Constitutional Convention , which represents 70 per cent . |
| 21 | In addition to implicating members of the Japanese establishment and of the Finance Ministry , the scandal also threatened to imperil Kaifu 's plans for constitutional reform , and highlighted the lack of effective government supervision over the securities industry . |
| 22 | Communist ministers in the West Bengal state government had protested over Bhutanese army cross-border raids aimed at capturing members of the Bhutan People 's Party and other pro-democracy and human rights groups . |
| 23 | As Secretary , make sure in advance that there will be a quorum present by seeing members of the committee individually and getting them to turn up promptly . |
| 24 | THE £116m settlement won by litigating members of the Outhwaite syndicates at Lloyd 's will be paid to the agents of the 817 members and any debts for losses of other syndicates will be deducted before any cash is fowarded to individuals , David Coleridge , chairman of Lloyd 's emphasised yesterday . |
| 25 | This first wave of indigenization had few practical effects , and Nigeria 's many TNCs managed to evade serious loss of control by enlisting members of the local bourgeoisie to ‘ front ’ for them , a universal practice where there are restrictions on foreigners engaging in certain economic activities . |
| 26 | However , by asking members of the elite group questions such as ‘ How many members of the group have you worked with on committees ? ’ , and ‘ How well do you know each member of the group ? ’ and ‘ Whose support would be necessary for a major project to get substantial community backing ? ’ , some elite studies of community power have revealed remarkable consensuses about the existence of elite groups , and about their power , and have supported such findings with demonstrations of the interaction of members of the supposed elite groups . |
| 27 | The Modular Course has gone about this by asking members of the evaluation team to present an account of each major evaluation study and its results to MMRC and MCC , the two senior Course management committees . |
| 28 | Stratification can also weaken social integration by giving members of the lower strata a feeling of being excluded from participation in the larger society . |
| 29 | Many of us prefer to think of ourselves as English , Irish , Scots or Welsh , but we proclaim our political allegiance by electing members to the British House of Commons . |
| 30 | Staff at Ashton Branch raised about £70 by putting members of the management team in the stocks and pelting them with custard pies . |