Example sentences of "member of the [det] " in BNC.

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1 Around 600,000 members of the former building society have still not registered for their entitlement of free shares .
2 Since then 2,082 civilians , 436 soldiers , 188 full-time members of the RUC and 97 Reservists and 197 members of the former Ulster Defence Regiment have died .
3 Some newcomers have been indifferent to the sensibilities of the local population ; others , as we shall see , have been oversensitive to what they believe the needs of the village to be-In each case the effect has been the same : members of the former occupational community , faced with an invasion of ‘ their ’ village by outsiders , have tended to retreat in upon themselves and form a community within a community , cutting themselves off from the separate world of the newcomers .
4 That is why we have ensured , through our know-how funds and all the other means at our disposal , that we are providing economic advice and sound advice for training members of the former republics to get on with the job of economic reform .
5 A linked theme , to which my right hon. Friend the Member for Blaby ( Mr. Lawson ) and others referred is the position of the members of the former Warsaw pact , who desperately want to be accepted and acknowledged as democratic .
6 The trial had begun on Jan. 27 , when the four men had each been charged with " complicity to commit genocide " ( Bobu , Manescu and Dinca in their capacity as members of the former permanent bureau of the Romanian Communist Party executive political committee ( EPC ) and Postelnicu in his capacity as a candidate member of the EPC and former Minister of the Interior ) for failing to oppose at meetings on Dec. 17 and 22 Nicolae Ceausescu 's orders to fire on demonstrators .
7 Currently in prison awaiting trial were numerous other senior officials of the Ceausescu regime , including many members of the former Council of Ministers and all but one of the 21 full members of the RCP executive political committee .
8 The members of this new grouping , the Party for the Advancement of Zionist Ideology , were all members of the former Liberal Party .
9 The French mercenary leader Bob Denard , who for a brief period had ruled the island with members of the former Presidential Guard following the death of President Abdullah [ see p. 37033 ] , was deported on Dec. 15 , 1989 , initially to South Africa , along with other mercenaries .
10 The SDP had been formed in 1981 with the intention of opening up the centre ground of British party politics [ see pp. 30911-12 ] , but after the Social and Liberal Democratic Party ( SLDP — now termed Liberal Democrats ) was formed in March 1988 combining most members of the former Liberal Party and of the SDP [ see p. 36501 ] , David Owen led the rump as a " continuing " SDP .
11 The National Unity Party ( NUP ) , formed in 1988 by members of the former ruling Burma Socialist Programme Party , won only 10 seats .
12 The government on July 18 took direct control of the State Property Agency ( SPA ) , whose officials had been members of the former communist government , and a week later announced that the head of the SPA , Istvan Tompe , would be replaced by Lajos Crepi ( former vice-president of the old post office ) .
13 Herbert Mies ( party chairman since 1973 , who had been re-elected unopposed in early 1989 — see p. 36497 ) had announced his resignation in October 1989 , and was replaced by a four-person council comprising Helga Rosenberg , Rolf Priemer , Heinz Stehr ( all members of the former presidium ) together with Anna Frohnweiler .
14 Prime Minister Aneerood Jugnauth on Sept. 24 announced a new Cabinet , replacing the dissident Mauritius Labour Party ( MLP ) ministers with members of the former opposition , the Mouvement militant mauricien ( MMM ) .
15 In Gen. Khan 's absence the Army leadership apparently divided into " neutralist " and pro-Ershad camps , with members of the former group openly refusing to act against rioting students .
16 Led by Dimitur Popov , a Sofia municipal court judge without party affiliation , it included members of the former ruling Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP ) , the Union of Democratic Forces ( UDF ) , and the Bulgarian Agrarian Peoples Union ( BZNS ) .
17 On May 20 the former Chairman of the East German Council of Ministers , Willi Stoph , 76 , the Minister of National Defence in 1985-89 , Heinz Kessler , 71 , and two members of the former East German National Defence Council , Fritz Streletz , 71 , and Hans Albrecht , 81 , were arrested on charges of incitement to manslaughter in connection with the East German government 's " shoot-to-kill " policy towards those trying to escape to the West .
18 On Sept. 11 the government announced that nine Kuwaiti members of the former Iraqi-backed regime would not be tried as collaborators .
19 Most of the members of the former Cabinet were retained , including the Ministers of Defence , of Territorial Administration and of Justice .
20 It was dominated by members of the former Soviet political system , and observers noted that it was out of step with political and economic realities after the demise of the Soviet Union .
21 On April 20 the Higher Court of Justice overturned the December 1991 rulings of the Higher Military Court of Justice on members of the former Romanian Communist Party politburo ; the original sentences on manslaughter charges were cancelled and the charges , in connection with the suppression of the December 1989 uprising in Timisoara , were changed to complicity in or attempted " aggravated murder " ; sentences of up to 16 years in prison were handed down .
22 A 19-member Cabinet was announced on May 3 ; it included several members of the NPRC and featured six civilians including two senior members of the former government , James S. A. Funna and Ahmed Dumbuya , who retained their portfolios .
23 Cissé , who was also Kérékou 's soothsayer , and nine other defendants were the first members of the former regime to face criminal charges .
24 The HCR was responding to a proposals made on Aug. 26 by a Joint Consultative Commission which comprised members of the former ruling party , the Rassemblement du peuple togolais ( RPT ) , and eight opposition parties .
25 Machinists there , members of the same trade union , are to take a strike vote on 22 October .
26 And any relation between members of the same sex which allowed their difference , did not assimilate both to one fantasy , would be heterosexual . ’
27 We would not even pass for distant cousins let alone members of the same nuclear family unit .
28 Zuwaya probably used marriages to create alliances with members of other lineages living in the same place , and to maintain connection with members of the same lineage living in different places , even though they did not feel the same ecological pressures as the members of the Saadi confederation .
29 Since such altruistic acts are typically performed between members of the same species , and usually within a fairly stable social group , it is best to start by asking what causes animals to come together in groups .
30 It was further reported ( Danas , 10 November 1987 ) that in the first nine months of 1987 there were 17 rapes in Kosovo , every one of which was between two members of the same ethnic group , and that in this period the incidence of rape in Kosovo was lower than in other parts of Yugoslavia .
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