Example sentences of "group of [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christine Griffin ( 1985 ) looked at a group of girls in the same way as Willis had looked at the boys . |
| 2 | What worried me in looking at the Franks Report is that it was the same group of ministers on the same committee that were dealing with the big issues of war and peace in Middle Europe , with the procurement of nuclear weapons systems . |
| 3 | The Southern Cross is a group of stars in the southern hemisphere . |
| 4 | Tonal series are designed to contain note-groups of a triadic nature , or to have a whole group of notes in the same key . |
| 5 | Having made contact with a group of students at the nearby Architectural Association he went to see them play at the Goings On Club in Archer Street , a tiny place largely frequented by poets . |
| 6 | Although these data must be interpreted with caution given the non-randomised nature of the studies , and the heterogeneous group of diseases among the two patient groups , it is intriguing to speculate that non-specific immunosuppression might occur as a result of the increased concentration of soluble HLA molecules in Gamimune N relative to Gammagard . |
| 7 | Uniformed legionnaires marched around , and there was a group of convicts from the regimental prison in filthy fatigues and greasy boots who were emptying the dustbins and sweeping the roads . |
| 8 | She was heading for the supermercado when a flaxen-haired man with a teak-dark tan waved vigorously from beyond a group of onlookers on the opposite side of the square . |
| 9 | The coupon yield curve is a plot of the yield to maturity against term to maturity for a group of bonds with the same coupon . |
| 10 | Hence it is hardly probable that a group of remarks about the first four groups could place any restriction on the nature of the two later groups , and thus there is a lot of room for an invalidating counter-example to the principle of closure . |
| 11 | In a broadcast , Touré said that a group of soldiers at the Kati army base had planned to march on the capital . |
| 12 | A group of scientists from the Chinese mainland visited Taiwan on June 8 , the first such visit for more than four decades . |
| 13 | In fact , it is n't in a theatre at all — it 's put on at irregular intervals by a group of lawyers in the sedate and sheltered surroundings of the Temple , and it 's called Seminars for the Expert Witness . |
| 14 | He edged his way through the standing drinkers and for a moment she thought he was going to join her , but he merely nodded and drifted down the room , taking up a position by the wall where he seemed to become engrossed in watching the efforts of a group of youngsters on the one-armed bandit . |
| 15 | In a typically British way , we have failed to take the credit that is due to us for that achievement , which had its origins in the Kangaroo group of Members of the European Parliament founded by the late Basil de Ferranti specifically to break down the trade barriers that existed in Europe at a time when none of the other major Community partners wanted to know anything about it . |
| 16 | PAV campaigned in the elections in coalition with the Independent Hungarian Initiative , a group of members of the Hungarian minority in southern Slovakia . |
| 17 | The last ground of appeal which their Lordships have to consider comprises a group of complaints under the general heading of the trial judge 's treatment of the jury . |
| 18 | If the point of distinguishing murder from manslaughter is to mark out the most heinous group of killings for the extra stigma of a murder conviction , it can be argued that the ‘ grievous bodily harm ’ rule draws the line too low . |
| 19 | The first voice made a request for permission to use the campsite area for a group of boys during the next school break , and after stopping the machine she made a note of the name and address to which she would send confirmation . |
| 20 | The text is divided into three parts , corresponding with the tri-partite formation of the collection : drawings assembled by Duke Albert von Sachsen-Teschen ( 1738–1822 ) , founder of the Albertina ; those purchased after his death ; and a group of drawings by the British artist Frank Brangwyn , given to the Albertina by Brangwyn in 1914 . |
| 21 | The largest group of institutions in the monetary sector are the recognized banks . |
| 22 | The whole group of buildings in the square present a charming provincial ensemble . |
| 23 | A group of intellectuals in the ruling Democratic Party broke away last August to form the Democratic Alliance . |
| 24 | We saw a group of workers on the right bank working under military supervision . |
| 25 | A GROUP of biochemists at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment in Harwell has adapted the technique of electrophoresis so it can be used in industry . |
| 26 | Arminianism had also been adopted by a small group of clerics within the Jacobean church who , as well as questioning the doctrinal basis of Calvinism , had sought to reintroduce into church worship certain decorational features and ceremonies most commonly associated with Catholicism . |
| 27 | The scented-leaved geranium constitute a different group of plants to the hardy kinds grown outdoors as border perennials , which are species of the genus Geranium . |
| 28 | He was crossing the road to join his father , who was standing with a group of men on the other side . |
| 29 | The group of coal miners in this study complained more frequently of anorexia and weight loss , had a higher prevalence of previous gastric surgery , and included a higher proportion of smokers than an age and sex matched group of men from the general population . |
| 30 | There he led a small group of men from the 22nd NZ Battalion to rescue an injured officer , in the process silencing five machine-guns and an anti-tank weapon and taking 130 prisoners . |