Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] a group " in BNC.
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| 1 | Satirical description of a type found at all social gatherings ( in this case a group of habitués of a public-house parlour ) who holds forth in an oracular manner on public affairs . |
| 2 | At about three-fifteen this afternoon a group of five men congregated in the Mudchute , a park in the Cubitt Town area . |
| 3 | In another study a group of children with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy at high risk of sudden death ( history of loss of consciousness , family history of sudden death ) who were given amiodarone had a better prognosis than an untreated group at low risk . |
| 4 | During this period a group of Country Whigs , led by Robert Harley and Paul Foley , separated from their former allies who were in office , and united with Country and out-of-office Tories to promote place bills , triennial bills , and measures against corruption . |
| 5 | This evening a group of slightly nervous looking insurance workers are about to try their hand at pilot racing . |
| 6 | I came on a train here today from London in South Africa if you are black and you got on a train it would n't be as comfortable and there would be crowds in it but you would n't know whether you reached the other end because at some station a group of people would get on and shoot you indiscriminately , and get off again leaving that scene of massacre . |
| 7 | To this end a group of sixty-nine 7-9 year old children were randomly sampled from the normal school population and given a battery of tests examining their reading ability , visual processing , phonological processing and short-term memory . |
| 8 | This year a group of us event riders , went on a return mission to Romania , straight after the final event of the season . |
| 9 | For this purpose a group includes both holding companies and subsidiaries . |
| 10 | By bringing within German identity a group that had traditionally been considered unalterably ‘ alien ’ he caused alarm and resentment against French interference in German affairs . |
| 11 | For each proposal a group was given the task assembling all the arguments in favour of the development , while another , the reasons against . |
| 12 | With his moral support a group of nobles and clergy from both sides tried to work out peace terms . |
| 13 | They collapsed into each other 's arms and at that moment a group of callow youths stomped past , bigger than the girls and ferocious looking . |
| 14 | On Monday 27th many insurgents converged on the Tauride Palace , seat of the Duma , and that evening a group of predominantly Menshevik intelligentsia established a Provisional Executive Committee ( EC ) of the soviet in the palace and summoned factories and barracks to elect deputies to it . |
| 15 | But as the police had been helpful all day a group of four walkers were allowed to deliver the letter . |
| 16 | At one institution a group of medical officers argued that it was against the interests of most long-term hospital residents with chronic illnesses to be resettled in community units . |
| 17 | At one point a group of us decided that the best way to stop being hassled about separatism was to publish instalments of the CLIT papers in the weekly newsletter , which was mailed to women all over London and beyond . |
| 18 | The computer 's instruction set has evolved to provide the facilities required by the programmer , or to provide as one instruction a group of operations commonly found together . |
| 19 | Fiona Allison was the main designer of our banners and since she moved away in 1989 there has not been a group — you ca n't call one person a group ! |
| 20 | The Committee believes that this is the first time a group of solicitors , experts in their field , have considered the legal feasibility of an anti-discrimination law to help people with disabilities work . |
| 21 | This is the fifth time a group of local youngsters has visited Almelo . |
| 22 | Secondly , even though group weddings do occur , for example among people like the Samburu of East Africa , where traditionally all the young men of the same age group married on the same day a group of girls , this does not mean that the marriages are any less individual affairs for having been celebrated all at the same time . |
| 23 | On the same day a group of 26 Federal Assembly deputies sent a protest to the European Commission for Human Rights about the method of screening used , which was described as being carried out without proper legal basis . |
| 24 | It none the less remains true that there existed within the late seventeenth-century church a group of churchmen who adopted a tolerant approach towards dissent , were willing to respond to the discoveries of the early natural scientists , and were interested in the relationship between religious belief and reason . |
| 25 | At the same time a group of agrarian reformers came to have influence with the crown . |
| 26 | In June of that year a group of armed men rounded up some of the teachers and started to take them down to the principal 's house . |
| 27 | In a recent study a group of exporters indicated that financing their export activities , which included managing cash-flow as well as managing exchange rate fluctuations , was their most difficult task . |
| 28 | In a recent well-publicised controversy a group of scientists claimed to have obtained results whereby water that once had a certain substance in it continued to behave as if the substance was present even after the substance had been removed ; as if the water retained a ‘ memory ’ of the substance . |
| 29 | Froissart 's account of the way in which many of the leading French nobility , by going forward at the battle of Crécy , in effect chose the likelihood of death to a dishonourable flight , suggests to the modern reader a group more intent upon self-immolation than upon the serious business of achieving victory through order and discipline . |
| 30 | In this earlier study a group of subjects gave unconstrained accident estimates for various manoeuvres at a set of traffic lights ( original statistics from Hall , 1986 ) . |