Example sentences of "of the committee for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , as a leading member of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal , he conceived it his duty to draw attention to any person or event which might bring science into disrepute . |
| 2 | She was secretary of the Tollemarche United Church Willing Workers ' Group , vice-president ( not president ! ) of the Tollemarche Downtown Community Centre , a driver for Cripples ' Transport , a member of the Car Dealers ' Wives Society and , she would remind him , a member of the Committee for the Preservation of Morals . |
| 3 | ‘ Got a meeting of the Committee for the Preservation of Morals tomorrow night , ’ she said . |
| 4 | As requested by Mrs Johnson of the Committee for the Preservation of Morals , she drove out to the library , with the intention of asking the chief librarian for information about Ben MacLean , but when she arrived he had gone out for morning coffee . |
| 5 | Behind them , she envisaged the faces of the Committee for the Preservation of Morals , as she had last seen them , glistening with almost sadistic anticipation of the crushing of the young author and of giving Mr Pascall and the cigar-store merchants their proper comeuppances . |
| 6 | Gladis , a mother from El Salvador whose son was ‘ disappeared ’ for protesting against the cost of education in her country , is a founder member of the Committee for the Mothers of the Disappeared . |
| 7 | The plaintiff then sued another member of the committee for the balance . |
| 8 | In 1908 , following discussions at the cricket nets after a lecture on Mendelism to the Royal Society of Medicine , he consulted G. H. Hardy [ q.v. ] , his fellow cricketer and co-secretary of the committee for the retention of Greek in the previous examination . |
| 9 | 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 . ] . |
| 10 | From 1862 to 1864 Fleming served on the council of the Royal Horticultural Society , and was a member of the committee for the international horticultural exhibition of 1866 . |
| 11 | Always interested in contemporary artistic matters , he was also honorary secretary of the committee for the preservation of St Mark 's , Venice , between 1882 and 1890 . |
| 12 | In advance of Avril 's visit Izmery and Roy sent a telegram to the Taiwanese government on behalf of the Committee for the Defence of the Constitution , claiming that the President lacked any constitutional authority . |
| 13 | The North Korean spokesman , An Byong Su , the vice-chairman of the Committee for the Reunification of the Fatherland , echoed this view , suggesting that both delegations had displayed attitudes in direct contrast to the confrontational perspectives of the past . |
| 14 | Ho Dam , 62 , one of North Korea 's most senior statesmen and , since 1983 a member of the politburo of the ruling Korean Workers ' Party and Chairman of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland , died in Pyongyang on May 11 after a long illness . |
| 15 | Kerry , president of the Committee for the Search of American Servicemen Missing in Action , had long pressed for a lifting of the US trade embargoes against Vietnam and Cambodia . |
| 16 | Sixto Batista Santana , a veteran of international missions in Africa , who was also appointed co-ordinator of the Committees for the Defence of the Revolution ( in place of Armando Acosta ) . |