Example sentences of "as a group " in BNC.
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| 1 | Participating as a group delegate and individual member in the vigorous AGM at Liverpool , I was surprised to see a religious service on the printed agenda , with the order of service available at the official information counter . |
| 2 | As a group ‘ they gave God short shift ’ . |
| 3 | It was a grim sort of place , and Bunting felt uneasy as a group of workmen began to stare at them and murmur ominously . |
| 4 | They have given staff in schools the space to meet as a group and get to terms with issues over a longer period , complementing the series of other meetings and team meetings that go on anyway . |
| 5 | The colonies as a group quickly emerged as a key element in British strategy because they were net dollar earners ( basically because of Malayan rubber and West African products such as cocoa ) and could be made so on a bigger scale by a number of policy devices . |
| 6 | I do n't want to sound dog-in-the-manger about it , but we have performed reasonably well in quite a difficult retail climate , but a view was put around that the individual companies in the Storehouse group were worth more separately than as a group . |
| 7 | The Body Shop as a group joined Friends of the Earth and pursued such policies as using recycled paper for packaging . |
| 8 | This is because the group of people descended from a common ancestor , which married as a group another group , was the famous gens . |
| 9 | The EFTA countries , the richest countries in Europe as a group , would be granted a privileged relationship in return for a full share in the burden of supporting the economic development of Eastern and Southern Europe . |
| 10 | Their response to the Lord Chancellor 's green papers , sent to him by the Judges ' Council , broke a long-standing convention that the judges made no comment as a group on proposed changes in the law . |
| 11 | Here , there is always more food than any individual would need , and because searching for food as a group is more efficient than searching individually , most dolphins have developed communal and co-operative hunting practices . |
| 12 | Dolphin groups tend to travel in specific formations , exhibiting refined and developed skills in working and cc-operating as a group . |
| 13 | As Mr Imai 's analysis makes clear , the term keiretsu is used to refer to so many different kinds of industrial groups in Japan that generalising about all of them , and especially complaining about them as a group , makes little sense . |
| 14 | The successful LBOs in my study , as a group , had higher debt levels at the time of the buyout than those that later failed . |
| 15 | The successful LBOs as a group also experienced greater increases in leverage with the buyout . |
| 16 | Zuwaya enthusiasts of the revolution did sometimes speak of the injustice of unequal distribution of wealth , but like those who attended the Intellectual Seminar in 1970 , they had difficulty in identifying any particular groups of Libyans who suffered as a group , or who had a common interest in pursuing distributive justice : in Benghazi they said , there were Libyan workers who were oppressed , or perhaps Tripoli . |
| 17 | As a group |
| 18 | I do not think that anyone attempting to classify the vertebrates would fail to recognize the Anura as a group , or that , presented with an adult vertebrate , one would be in any doubt as to whether or not it was an Anuran . |
| 19 | It is also hoped it will avoid the much faster wheelchairs catching the elite women runners — who start five minutes earlier — at an early point where they are running as a group and hard to pass . |
| 20 | Thus the three parts of the research number allowed for subsequent analysis of all the referrals received ( a ) as a group , ( b ) according to whether they were received in or out-of-hours and ( c ) according to the nature of the referral received . |
| 21 | One line of development parallels the weaver-bird route culminating in the colonial breeding of paired individuals , each defending its own small territory but foraging as a group gregariously . |
| 22 | The family goes foraging as a group within a large home range and establishes a variety of bases for refuges which seem to be used at different times of the year . |
| 23 | This fat — invariably in the form of ( — is lighter than water , and so improves buoyancy ; and also ensures that planktonic creatures , as a group , tend to be highly nutritious . |
| 24 | As a Group Captain , Dave Durkin was first at Medmenham from 1964–66 and no trophy existed for the match , but as a piece of ‘ superfluous ’ R.A.F. silver was to hand , it was re-dedicated as The Danesfield Cup expressly for this annual combat . |
| 25 | If the school is already well on the way to successful marketing then relationships with parents as a group and on an individual basis will be or good quality and it will be fairly straightforward to contact people directly to ask them to undertake specific responsibilities . |
| 26 | I heard one man say ‘ bastards ' ’ as a group of policemen went past him . |
| 27 | It is easier to book in as a group of four or more , by telephoning in advance , 26–65041 ext. 212 or 262 . |
| 28 | They behaved as a group separate from conventional life . |
| 29 | If a crew went to Southend on a Bank Holiday Monday , which was a traditional outing for London 's East End , they would arrive in the town by train and walk as a group to the seafront . |
| 30 | Tempting as it is , it is positively wrong to speak of the genes for the six enzymes of pathway 2 being selected ‘ as a group ’ . |