Example sentences of "[subord] 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 | Although a group of children or adults may read the same text , it is likely that each person will gain a different ‘ reading ’ and will respond to the shared text in different ways . |
| 22 | Little was known about the Algerian Hezbollah , although a group of that name had unsuccessfully applied for recognition as a political party in March 1990 . |
| 23 | But the latent inhibition effect was not profound — rats given partial reinforcement during pre-exposure learned much more readily during the test phase than a group of subjects that had experienced the tone followed consistently by the mild shock during pre-exposure . |
| 24 | ‘ Often , ’ he notes , ‘ we resembled a rather violent community welfare body rather than a group of revolutionaries . ’ |
| 25 | There are few more poignant sights than a group of people who are desperate to walk up a mountain , standing with their hands in pockets and feet in slippers , gazing out the window at weather that looks like television interference . |
| 26 | Originally a mound but now no more than a group of rocks , it was excavated in 1837 and a circular stone was found at a depth of 4 feet . |
| 27 | The ie was more than a group of individuals ; it was a continuing entity carrying on from generation to generation embracing people , property and reputation . |
| 28 | In estimating the number of phonemes in spoken versions of words such as " autumn " and " session " both groups of poor spellers made more errors than a group of good spellers , regardless of whether or not they were good readers . |
| 29 | It seemed a silly thing to cheer about and Anna remained sitting on the floor until a group of older boys appeared with musical instruments which they took to a bank of seats at the far end . |
| 30 | If a group of these took off and penetrated Israeli or allied air defences they could each wreak more destruction — with chemicals or high-explosives — than a flock of Scuds . |