Example sentences of "[conj] a group of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Noriega forces had gained entrance to the barracks headquarters where a group of army offices mutinied early yesterday . |
| 2 | Play Me Something ( 15 ) is set on a small Hebridean island where a group of passengers await their plane . |
| 3 | Instead , she clutched tightly to the handle of the suitcase Mrs Hollidaye had lent her and followed the nurse along broad passages to a bright room where a group of children , all with suitcases and well wrapped in outdoor clothing , stood huddled like refugees from a foreign land waiting to be told where to go next . |
| 4 | And there is one particularly prescient episode , where a group of weavers attacks his house under the impression that he has invented a ‘ steam loom ’ that will rob them of their livelihood . |
| 5 | But there are those in England , too , who also fail to see that participation in drama has two faces , or rather , a face and a mask : the ‘ game ’ of drama where a group of participants share a significant experience , and a theatrical performance where a group of actors present the drama so that an audience might have a significant experience . |
| 6 | But there are those in England , too , who also fail to see that participation in drama has two faces , or rather , a face and a mask : the ‘ game ’ of drama where a group of participants share a significant experience , and a theatrical performance where a group of actors present the drama so that an audience might have a significant experience . |
| 7 | However , confidence is still high in the 1990 European City of Culture , Glasgow , where a group of designers and architects has organised the 3D-Design , Debate , Demonstration event . |
| 8 | On the West Coast , meanwhile , WS & F tracked down a gym where a group of women do a French conversation lesson while riding ( quietly operating ) stationary bicycles . |
| 9 | The principles of training laid down by Stirling differed from those in the Commandos , where a group of volunteers , once recruited , were nursed up to the required standard . |
| 10 | Whitechurch then saw ‘ one shop where a group of female polishers and varnishers were rubbing seat-arms and panels … the upholstery department … a room above , where was a row of sewing machines , worked by steam , and an army of fifty women and girls stitching busily at cushions , and cordings and hand-rests , and the like , while in another room were more of the gentle sex preparing strips of leather for window straps . |
| 11 | In Simcock v Rhodes ( 1978 ) 66 Cr App R 192 the court held that an offence was committed where a group of 15 youths told a police sergeant to ‘ fuck off ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ This is an utterly stupid act where a group of men have taken the law into their own hands . ’ |
| 13 | We had by now almost reached the end of Main Street , where a group of girls was washing laundry in a stone trough under the shade of two huge , ancient mango trees . |
| 14 | We could have done with the masks upstairs at the ‘ Music Journalism ’ gathering , where a group of rock writers were taking themselves — and their , ahem , Art — extremely seriously . |
| 15 | The twinkle in his eye was reassuring , but when we tied up at Tobermory and the purser pointed out to sea where a group of small rocks ( or so it seemed ) showed strung out on the horizon like a mother duck with her ducklings after her , I felt a cowardly twinge , and found myself wondering what the ‘ relatively mod cons ’ could be . |
| 16 | It pulls together , with impressive clarity , the tangled story that started at Chilhac , in the Auvergne , where a group of five hand-worked pebbles demonstrates that human habitation in Europe dates back at least 1,800,000 years . |
| 17 | She 'd reached a floodlit clearing where a group of costumed dancers were performing , brilliant in pink skirts , white petticoats , black bodices and bright head-scarves . |
| 18 | Where a group of persons is acting in a threatening manner , the pre-Act cases established that conduct of the defendants taken together should be considered . |
| 19 | The show is a crazy tongue-in-cheek cocktail of Rocky Horror Show meets St.Trinian 's , where a group of school-girls decide to stage Herman Melville 's classic ’ Moby Dick ’ . |
| 20 | Another problem is that of the halo effect ; where a group of questions relates to different aspects of , for example , a particular statistics course , respondents with an overall feeling of like or dislike will tend to give high or low ratings to all the features . |
| 21 | Something else the organizers have to consider is the Princess will never skip a bed in a hospital ward , or a group of people in a room . |
| 22 | They may have felt a degree of excitement as they turned their cameras on a train arriving at a station , waves crashing on the beach , or a group of workers emerging from their daily grind in the factory , but these early pieces of reportage were seen as nothing more than ‘ animated photographs ’ , a further step in the development of photography . |
| 23 | This is a particularly convenient method for large houseplants , or a group of small specimens , providing ample humidity as long as the peat is kept constantly moist . |
| 24 | Fighting , stealing , homicide and rape were usually either individual initiatives or a group of friends on the rampage . |
| 25 | We discreetly discussed who they might be , and finally placed our bets on either a WRVS rambler 's club from Perth , or a group of senior women 's prison officers on an Outward Bound course . |
| 26 | In practice , too many governing bodies are merely ‘ rubber stamps ’ to decisions made by the headteacher and/ or a group of governors with the headteacher in the guise of ‘ subcommittees ’ . |
| 27 | The pre-1974 sub-regional tier , the Hospital Management Committee ( HMC ) , was responsible for running a hospital or a group of hospitals and rarely had specific responsibilities to ensure that the needs of a defined population were met . |
| 28 | Most of the main roads are in good condition , but driving can be very tiring as there are many bends , and most of the roads are built onto the mountainside with deep ravines dropping away below , and you never quite know what 's around the corner — be it a bus straddling the centre of the road to take a corner or a group of children playing football in the road . |
| 29 | ‘ There is nothing to beat backing a company or a group of individuals which succeeds . ’ |
| 30 | Or a group of pot-bellied men have group sex with a middle-aged woman with stretch marks and a cellulite problem ? |