noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a band member
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He was one of the original band members.
a board member
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Two board members resigned earlier this year.
a cabinet member/a member of the cabinet
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Two senior cabinet members have resigned.
a cabinet member/a member of the cabinet
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Two senior cabinet members have resigned.
a cast member/a member of the cast
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Everyone remembers the cast members of 'Friends’.
a cast member/a member of the cast
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Everyone remembers the cast members of 'Friends’.
a club member/member of a club
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There’s a monthly magazine for club members.
a club member/member of a club
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There’s a monthly magazine for club members.
a coalition member
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Some coalition members are unhappy with the proposal.
a committed member of sth
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She is a committed member of the Scottish Socialist Party.
a committee member
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Four committee members did not attend the meeting.
a council member
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School council members are elected by their fellow students.
a family member/a member of the family
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The event was attended by many of his family members, including his children and grandchildren.
a family member/a member of the family
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The event was attended by many of his family members, including his children and grandchildren.
a gang member/a member of a gang
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Gang members are thought to be responsible for up to 20% of murders in the city.
a gang member/a member of a gang
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Gang members are thought to be responsible for up to 20% of murders in the city.
a member country (= belonging to a particular international organization )
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the member countries of the European Community
a member of a community
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It's good to feel that you are a member of a community.
a member of a department (= a person working in a department )
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All members of the Biology Department are actively committed to research.
a member of a group
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Jeremy was a member of a heavy metal group.
a member of a group/a group member
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Frank was invited to be a member of the group.
a member of a group/a group member
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Frank was invited to be a member of the group.
a member of a profession
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Some members of the medical profession supported the use of these drugs.
a member of parliament
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He was the Conservative member of Parliament for Edgbaston.
a member of the jury
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Only three members of the jury were women.
a member state (= a country that belongs to an organization of countries )
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The statement said that NATO would counter any attack against a member state.
a party member
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He’s been a Conservative party member for 20 years.
a senior member
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The President announced a reshuffle involving several senior members of his Cabinet.
a staff member ( also a member of staff British English )
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At least one staff member should always be present.
a team member/a member of a team
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He's the eldest team member.
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He was a popular member of the team.
a team member/a member of a team
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He's the eldest team member.
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He was a popular member of the team.
a team member/a member of a team
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Team members meet on a regular basis.
a team member/a member of a team
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Team members meet on a regular basis.
an active member
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She became an active member of the Geological Society.
be a member of a circle
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He was a powerful member of a circle of financiers.
be a member of a class
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I suppose I’m a member of the middle class.
charter member
founder member
full professor/member/colonel etc
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Only full members have the right to vote.
leading members
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leading members of the government
long-serving member
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a long-serving member of the committee
long-standing member
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a long-standing member of the committee
Member of Parliament
members of the aristocracy
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dukes, earls, and other members of the aristocracy
members of the public
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Police warned members of the public not to approach the man, who may be armed.
new member/employee/student etc
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training for new employees
past president/member/winner etc
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a past president of the golf club
private member's bill
private member
rank-and-file members
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the rank-and-file members of the trade union
sitting member
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the sitting member for Newbury
the sole surviving/remaining member/child etc
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His sole surviving child, Mary, succeeded to the throne at the age of one week.
union members
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union members
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
active
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However in many branches active members who do actual work, not just attending committee meetings are few.
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Magill in Corte Madera, is president of club, which has 50 active members .
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He was an active member of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool from 1837 onwards and served as its treasurer.
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She is an active member of her local League of Friends and Trefoil Guild.
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He was an active member of the Educational Publishers Council.
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Myfanwy is also an active member of the Red Cross and helps organise holidays for the disabled.
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Packford was an active member of his local Labour Party, sympathetic to the idea of the paper, and liked Keith.
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The first elected council contained such active and progressive members as Sidney Webb, eager to encourage housebuilding for the working classes.
full
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A player must serve a minimum of 12 consecutive months before becoming a full member .
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We are full members of both bodies.
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All full academic members of each laboratory have dual appointments, being fellows of colleges as well as having university posts.
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On the last Sunday in May 1943 were received as full members .
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In 1986 we became a full member of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
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To become a full member , Britain would need to introduce several technical measures.
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The Berlin members were not full members in that they did not have voting powers.
individual
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The objectives will be personal to the individual members .
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But it does so at a high price, both for the organization and its individual members .
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There are two trio collective compositions and the other seven pieces are by individual members of the group.
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Telling individual members of the group that they were welcome at Trinity hardly seemed a seditious step.
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I should prefer that the appointments are not given to the governors of the banks of individual member states.
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Photographic Collections held by individual members of staff.
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It is for individual members and their firms to decide what subject matter is useful and relevant to their needs.
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At the same time, personal connections naturally developed between individual members of the affinity.
new
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Congratulations to all those who found the 320 new members , unfortunately there are over 450 people who have not renewed.
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On Tuesday, voters chose a new mayor and six new council members .
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It recruited 4,000 new members and raised £70,000.
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It is suggested that new members start at step one and proceed sequentially and at their own pace through the remaining steps.
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The management committee is also to beef up the criteria to be met by new members of the League.
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For a first run with a new member , the Boccherini quartet turned out to be a solid success.
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Last week state television reported that 24 candidates stood, and that eight new members were elected.
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Darnell McDonald is the newest member of the club.
other
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The other members will be: two barristers, two solicitors, two law teachers and eight lay members.
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Quartermaine is the oblivious pivot around which the other members of staff at the Cambridge language school circulate and occasionally collide.
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We have a different regime from the other 11 member states, one which is more competitive.
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We co-operate, share and exchange animals with other members to further breeding programmes of conservation importance.
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As they began to know me better, other members of the medical staff began to talk to me.
senior
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The good behaviour of our own Club members are still attending with some of the older juniors replacing retiring senior members.
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Mr Lorne, 49 years old, also will be a senior member of the Salomon control team.
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This Commission consists of five senior members of the judiciary and legal profession.
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This was done by comparing the shorthand notes of several senior lobby members who willingly handed them over.
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The activities brought together 18 senior members of the newly restructured operations group comprising all the east coast and New Zealand sites.
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The Group meets four times a year and draws its membership from senior members within the industry.
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But a senior member of the royal household told the Mirror that any inaccuracies in the diagrams were tiny.
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Such cases would go to a higher body, described as an upper-tier Industrial Court staffed by senior chairmen and members .
team
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The remaining budget was made up by personal contributions-student loans!-from the team members .
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The two perspectives, that of the manager and that of the team member , reveal disparate visions of these changes.
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He will be joined by team members Philip Chappell and Grant Cowley.
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That provides greater flexibility, and allows team members to trade off to avoid boredom.
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Many will find themselves undertaking research as peers, employees, managers, friends, lovers, family members and team members.
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Project team members will rent hotel conference rooms for the duration of the project, working on portable computers and call-forwarding.
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According to PacBell, team members were transformed by this experience into potential leaders.
union
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He is planning a new levy of 15 cents a month from each union member , to be spent on political campaigns.
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In this country they are probably two-thirds of our union members .
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Mr Spiers says that on a £400 loan paid over 24 weeks, a credit union member would pay interest at £11.62.
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Once people become unemployed, even if they were always good union members , they are out of the labor movement.
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Several thousand students and union members marched on the heavily fortified U.S.
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Federal law forbids a union member from taking his own case to court.
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Not only did he have the cops, but he would deputize certain Union members to walk around the hall with guns.
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She said the union members like the new system very much.
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band
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Gedge used the other band members as arbitrators of the material, especially Gregory who contributes his own bass lines to songs.
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No Stanford Band members may apply for work as San Francisco characters.
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The conservatism of the group's fans even spread to the band members themselves.
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The band members list Madness, Prince and Black Sabbath among their influences.
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Probably, some band members will contribute more than others.
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Spitzer said he was interested, met with parents of the band members and began making some plans.
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Dennis was developing as a songwriter, but the other band members were struggling to deliver quality material.
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By Nov. 18, band members delivered to the travel agent about $ 100, 000 to pay for the trip.
board
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Since Keith was a Board members of the committee, another Board member would be asked to sit on the committee.
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Nor has he been sharing with all board members the monthly reports he receives outlining the major budget problems Pima County faces.
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Turner, also a Time Warner board member , suggested more such deals may be in the works.
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For example, while annual reports usually name the chairman and board members they do not always reveal their salaries.
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Two other board members hovered behind him while he told Mrs Saulitis to obey orders.
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One of the board members asked Ted a very pointed question about several of our biggest cyclical accounts.
class
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Please encourage class members to lobby their local councils about cuts in classes, either personally or by petition.
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Please give a big build-up to your class members and encourage them to visit the exhibition bringing along families and friends.
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Please do your best to encourage your class members to come along.
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It is possible for teachers and/or class members to attend individual sessions which are taken by different people each week.
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Please tell all your class members to keep that Spring Bank Holiday week-end free.
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It is very helpful if the renewal cards can be used, so please take the opportunity to remind all class members .
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Existing class members can be very inventive if asked to help publicise a class.
committee
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Both Feingold and Abraham are committee members .
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Among other things, this bill strengthened the position of rank-and-file committee members visàvis chairmen.
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They pointed out that committee members were unrepresentative of the user body but got re-elected year after year.
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He listed the various committee members and what he thought of them.
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They wanted induction and training for all management committee members and for the management committee to take a lead in fund raising.
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None of the committee members in these crucial years specialized in criminal law or family law.
country
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Second, the elimination of exchange rate uncertainty will stimulate the manufacturing sectors of member countries .
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However it was reported that member countries considered oil and energy problems less urgent than in the past.
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Each member country has a quota which reflects its economic size and importance as a trading nation.
crew
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On board were 10 crew members and 30 passengers.
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Many who visit the ship, or hear a crew member speak at their church, soon sign on as volunteers.
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Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, the chief of staff, said 73 soldiers and crew members were killed.
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The buoy is somehow a fitting monument to the crew members who lost their lives here.
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Five crew members died in those crashes.
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Quite simply, the crew members would be paid a bonus for every crossing.
family
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It is easier to involve other family members and useful information may be gained by seeing a patient in his home.
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Since then I have seen it happen to many patients, family members , friends, and involved health professionals.
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It means caring in circumstances which threaten both the well-being of family members and the economic survival of the household.
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It was a bonehead mistake, but my family members stood by me.
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One of the issues for us here is who does this work and whether it is equitably distributed between different family members .
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More than 3 million children in the United States now live with grandparents or other family members .
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These people have lost their homes and family members have been killed.
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Agree upon a place where family members can meet if required.
founder
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He is a founder member of the Prison Reform Trust.
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He was a founder member of the Edinburgh Press Club, established more than 50 years ago.
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He was a founder member of the Company of Master Mariners.
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She was also one of the founder members of a super pool of judges which brought more than 450 Mafia members to trial.
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He was a founder member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1847 and its president in 1870-1.
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He is also a founder member and stage manager of the Calder Valley Junior theatre Society.
gang
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But other gang members warned my kids that I was to get slashed for grassing.
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He was cornered outside the school by three apparent gang members wearing red, the emblem of the Nortenos.
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Former gang members shall be given a chance to be patrol buddies in assisting in the protection of the neighbourhoods.
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The youth charged in his murder was a 16-year-old black gang member from the Newhallville section of New Haven.
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Some of the gang members got into the car while others sat on the vehicle's bonnet.
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He wants to create a task force for peace that would include former gang members .
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The gang members , the hit men in here are at the top of their tree.
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David and Falakah Fattah opened their own home in Philadelphia to 15 teenage gang members in 1969.
party
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Unused to internal democracy, party members continue to vote as their leadership obviously wishes them to vote.
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The party members attending the session here were mostly middle-aged or elderly California residents.
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He declared that he wanted opposition party members to join the new Cabinet.
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Her closest friends had all been Party members , and now none would speak to her.
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Although the move was defeated and the renationalisation policy endorsed, party members voted to remit the controversial proposal for further consideration.
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In a throwback to the days of Confucius, Jiang essentially wants party members to discover the joys of clean living.
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Political activism of party members also varies over time.
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Rabin polled 40.5 percent and Peres 34.5 percent of the votes of the 108,000 party members .
state
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The nationality of the owner was the criterion applied by all the member states of the Community. 39.
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The directive applies only to objects illegally exported after 1 January 1993 unless the member state wishes to extend its obligations.
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The Cartalist view suggests that the fiscal authority of the member states will be significantly weakened.
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First, there is the residency requirement already mentioned, which member states can impose when handing out subsidies.
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This represents a significant political difficulty, since there are other member states who support the idea.
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Meanwhile, members states have undertaken to apply the substance of the rules.
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Each member State was under a duty to respect the international and independent character of the responsibilities of these staff.
■ VERB
become
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The headquarters of the League became a club where members could go for a drink and where Joyce served behind the bar.
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But I had not become a member of the church.
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We talked about the implications of the job and agreed on a salary, and I became a member of the bank.
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In time, she becomes almost a member of his family.
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Perhaps existing members can persuade their families to become members to support their Medau interest.
elect
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Except for the head of the house, who was chosen by the housemaster, the Library elected its own members .
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Soon after his arrival, Luks was elected an honorary member of the Boston Art Club.
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The aim is now to change the constitution to elect four associate members on to a management committee.
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Borland also elected a new board member , Harry J.. Saal.
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In 1872 he was elected a life honorary member of the Manchester Association of Engineers.
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For example, an elected member of a board of education would be considered a public official.
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The team elected by Labour members yesterday bore some resemblance to the team the public might elect to take on the Tories.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fully paid-up member of sth
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Are you now a fully paid-up member of the new economy?
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At the moment I would describe him as a fully paid-up member of the politically embarrassed tendency.
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Listen to that big-mouthed gilgul, acting like she's a fully paid-up member of the team.
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Thus, Milwaukee-based guitarist Daryl Stuermer became a fully paid-up member of the Genesis live auxiliaries.
an affiliated organization/club/member etc
associate member/director/head etc
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Early in the setup of the Northwest Respirator Center he hired Dunning to work as his part-time associate director.
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Gross is an associate director at Woodbourne.
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He later became associate director of circulation planning and vice president and business manager.
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Mike McCarthy is associate director, head of sixth-form studies.
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The aim is now to change the constitution to elect four associate members on to a management committee.
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These activities are available when you join the society as an associate member.
card-carrying member
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As a card-carrying member of the Wilderness Society, I do not advocate less pristine forest.
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George Spachtholz has been a proud, card-carrying member of the Loyal Order of the Moose for 45 years.
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How many of the extra women on the list are card-carrying members of the Conservative party?
paid-up member
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Are you now a fully paid-up member of the new economy?
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At the moment I would describe him as a fully paid-up member of the politically embarrassed tendency.
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He comes over as what he might well be - a paid-up member, if not a capo, in the Mafia.
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Listen to that big-mouthed gilgul, acting like she's a fully paid-up member of the team.
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The Campaign now has more paid-up members than it did at the height of the 1970s real ale revival.
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Thus, Milwaukee-based guitarist Daryl Stuermer became a fully paid-up member of the Genesis live auxiliaries.
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When I read of his death in 1986 he was still a paid-up member of ours.
the Honourable Gentleman/the Honourable Lady/my Honourable Friend/the Honourable Member
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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80% of union members are opposed to going on strike over this issue.
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Brooks is a very valuable member of the team.
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Dogs and wolves are both members of the same species.
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Is Switzerland a member of the European Union?
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She's a member of the local drama society.
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St. Joseph's church welcomes all new members.
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The club is hoping to attract more members.
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Tickets are $7 for members, and $10 for non-members.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All council members donate their time, and the district being evaluated pays for travel, lodging, and food.
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How else can members of Congress assume a steady flow of campaign contributions?
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It will be the responsibility of member countries to prosecute those of their own ships which transgress the convention.
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Shares of computer equipment companies nationwide surged after several members of the industry reported earnings that exceeded expectations.
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The member of staff must report, but need not terminate, the relationship.
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These employees are paid based upon what they produce either individually or as members of small work groups.
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They now have to ballot their members before being able to call a strike.