Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] a group " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five years ago or even longer , 10,000 Maniacs were a group mere millimetres away from a bursting greatness . |
| 2 | But also on his shops was a group of captured ‘ Indians ’ brought back as slaves . |
| 3 | THE WAITS were a group of four musicians or minstrels who performed for the local corporation and received a badge and annual payment for their services . |
| 4 | The age composition of the mining group was significantly older than that of the general population group , since the source of the coal miners was a group of retired men . |
| 5 | It says much for the tolerance and humanity of the family that among the guests was a group of German POWs . |
| 6 | The Olympians were a group of artists ( the included Lord Leighton and Lawrence Alma-Tadema ) who became super-seriously rich churning out smooth , vapid and strangely asexual evocations of laid-back life in Ancient Greece . |
| 7 | Among the news teams scouring the show for stories was a group of 14 12- to 13-year old pupils from the Brewood-Wheaton Aston School , Staffs . |
| 8 | The focus of their studies was a group of six half-tamed dromedaries , originally part of the feral camel population of central Australia . |
| 9 | Among the merry passengers were a group of Scotland 's most adventurous old tars , hell bent on celebrating a mid-week victory over Wales . |
| 10 | The Ranters were a group of extreme religious libertarians who believed that God dwelt inside them as an inner light . |
| 11 | Students were a group already singled out for special attention in the effort to keep out the ‘ bourgeois liberalism ’ which had influenced their predecessors at the turn of the century . |