Example sentences of "member ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your members ' vouchers include a free computer test of your clubs at any of the Petron Swing Analysis Centres situated around Britain . |
| 2 | Yes , can I say to you that what you 're hearing is members ' experiences of the past . |
| 3 | Because it is necessary to record the value of members ' holdings , the vote must be taken by way of a poll . |
| 4 | Here was the source of the Committee members ' indecision and the second of the factors which decided the matter in Franco 's favour . |
| 5 | PAUL Lowenburg , the American-born chief executive of Edinburgh District Council , has been the victim of talk in the smoke-filled members ' lounges of the capital 's City Chambers . |
| 6 | A further analysis of SIAD members ' pay , working conditions and employment/unemployment experiences |
| 7 | They also raised members ' pay by 400 per cent . |
| 8 | Similarly , ex the excellent output of the research department is essential to formulate effective responses to the ever more sophisticated management who constantly employ new techniques in human resource management and attacks on our members ' pay and conditions . |
| 9 | The House of Lords found for the company on the ground that the union had knowingly induced breaches of the hiring contract and their members ' contracts of employment . |
| 10 | There have been major rebellions against the imposition of charges for eye and dental tests , for an amendment to grade the poll tax according to ability to pay , and for the second reading of a private members ' bill to liberalize the Official Secrets Act . |
| 11 | ( ii ) The ‘ 10 minute ’ rule This is a development of the method of introducing a Bill by motion now rarely used in the case of Government Bills and it is extremely rare for legislation to result from its use for Private Members ' Bill purposes . |
| 12 | The Jockey Club believes that in the long term Sunday racing without cash betting is impractical and it is resigned to trying to bring about a change in the legislation by a private members ' bill . |
| 13 | More Tory ( 54 ) than Labour ( 28 ) MPs supported a 1926 Private Members ' bill to enable local authority welfare centres to give family-planning advice to married women . |
| 14 | this time in promoting a Private Members ' Bill , which came to the statute book as the Civic Amenities Act , 1967 . |
| 15 | Then a Private Members ' Bill established a trust to protect it , consisting of representatives from five local councils . |
| 16 | After MPs sat all night to defeat a private members ' bill to enable building of the Cardiff Barrage , the government announced that it would introduce its own bill to ensure that the measure passed into law . |
| 17 | ABILL improving guarantees on cars and household goods has a good chance of becoming law because it is being introduced by the MP who topped the ballot for private members ' bills . |
| 18 | Mr John Wilkinson ( C. Ruislip Northwood ) , who came sixth in the private members ' bills ballot , yesterday announced a measure to make it obligatory to apply for planning permission before a dwelling house is demolished . |
| 19 | The top seven , all Tories apart from Mr Jones , have the most chance of success , since business managers have set aside seven Fridays for private members ' bills . |
| 20 | Among the remaining 13 private members ' bills , whose chances are far more dependent on the amount of controversy they attract , are measures to compensate British nuclear test victims , abolish poll tax warrant sales in Scotland , and lay down car telephones standards . |
| 21 | Private Members ' Bills not only preserve an important margin of policy initiative for backbench MPs , but Westminster 's increasing role as a centre for interest lobbying also strengthens its function as the crucible of interest representation in political life . |
| 22 | ( e ) Private Members ' Bills By long-standing tradition , Friday is Private Members ' day . |
| 23 | This is all the time there is for Private Members ' Bills unless , as occasionally happens , the government takes them over and allots some of its own time to them . |
| 24 | The subsequent stages are again the same as in the case of Government Bills except that there is a special standing committee for Private Members ' Bills . |
| 25 | The Keep Sunday Special Campaign has been fortunate in getting its proposals for reform of the legislation for Sunday trading drawn out in the ballot for Private Members ' Bills . |
| 26 | When Parliament sat again , the government announced that there would not be a ballot for Private Members ' Bills in the first session , and therefore there was no possibility of homosexual law reform , a decision which prompted the Earl of Arran to reintroduce his Sexual Offences Bill into the House of Lords to keep up the pressure . |
| 27 | Private Members ' Bills |
| 28 | On average 10–12 Private Members ' Bills become law each session . |
| 29 | The whips agree to give a certain amount of time for private members ' bills and private members ' motions , but they then encourage all their own backbenchers to ballot for these opportunities . |
| 30 | The methods by which MPs attempt to influence ministers from the floor of the House are by their speeches in major debates on government business , by calling for emergency debates under Standing Order No. 20 , by the use of ten-minute rule bills , private members ' bills and motions , adjournment debates , question time and abstention or cross-voting in divisions . |