Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] a group [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On March 30 a group of 14 Kurdish deputies resigned from the Social Democratic Popular Party ( SHP ) , which was junior partner in the governing coalition dominated by the True Path Party ( DYP ) . |
| 2 | On Aug. 3 a group of soldiers took control of the Kaba military camp in Natitingou , in the north-east . |
| 3 | On May 25th a group of lenders , headed by Barclays , decided to put Speyhawk , a long-troubled property developer , into receivership . |
| 4 | In another broadcast the radio station claimed that on Sept. 14 a group of 30 monks had attacked four soldiers travelling to hospital in Mandalay . |
| 5 | On May 14-16 a group of donors led by the World Bank promised assistance to the value of US$508,000,000 for 1990-91 , aimed at reducing balance of payments problems under a special programme of assistance for debt-laden low-income sub-Saharan African states . |
| 6 | On May 14 a group of up to 300 Army officers and military cadets protesting against the independence declaration tried to push their way into the Supreme Soviet building , and clashed briefly with police and independence supporters before dispersing when Gorbunovs agreed to receive a petition from them . |
| 7 | On the weekend of May 11-12 a group of about 200 radical ecologists and feminists broke away from the Greens to form the Ecological Left/Alternative List . |
| 8 | On July 20 a group of French inspectors arrived in Ukraine to monitor implementation of the treaty , marking the start of an intensive 120-day period of mutual " baseline inspections " to establish current holdings in each country . |
| 9 | On July 24 a group of paratroopers received suspended sentences in nearby Carcassonne for attacking North African immigrants with clubs . |
| 10 | On May 11th a group of German financial institutions bought from Fondiaria , an Italian insurer , its 21% of AMB . |
| 11 | In March 1836 a group of student members demanded that Vines be restored to the society , and formed themselves into a committee of management , upon which all the officers resigned . |
| 12 | In November 1697 a group of men in Carlisle committed a riot on the day that the conclusion of the peace was announced , " threatening to break the windows … being illuminated upon that occasion , causing the Candles to be put out , and offering mony to drink King James 's health " . |
| 13 | In November 1989 a group of 3,500-4,000 Edjupci , Egyptians , requested that an ethnic category be formed in the next census to include themselves . |
| 14 | Fifty years ago in the midst of world war two a group of people got together to help the victims of Nazi occupation.The charity Oxfam was born , and it 's grown steadily to become Britain 's largest overseas aid agency , with an income of seventy million pounds a year . |
| 15 | In a declaration published in the press on Feb. 7 a group of 62 retired officers , one of whom , Gen. Jacobo Yépez , was later arrested , accused civilian governments since 1974 ( when Pérez embarked on his first term of office ) of creating the circumstances for a coup by failing to fight corruption and provide the Venezuelan people with order and justice . |
| 16 | On Oct. 19 a group of lawyers formed the CNID , and on Oct. 25 a group of eminent Malians who had sent an open letter to Traoré in August , urging him to introduce reforms , set up the ADEMA . |
| 17 | On Feb. 13 a group of 78 boat people had voluntarily returned to Hanoi , bringing to 1,225 the total number of voluntary returnees since the scheme was introduced in March 1989 . |
| 18 | On Oct. 19 a group of lawyers formed the CNID , and on Oct. 25 a group of eminent Malians who had sent an open letter to Traoré in August , urging him to introduce reforms , set up the ADEMA . |
| 19 | On Oct. 24 a group of deputies from the House of Representatives , trade union leaders and human rights activists petitioned King Hussein to release Shbeilat and Qarrash , both of whom had started a hunger strike in mid-October . |
| 20 | In the early hours of March 1 a group of four soldiers seized weapons and ammunition from the Ministry of Defence headquarters in the fort of Tiuna in the capital . |
| 21 | On Dec. 12 a group of Jewish settlers moved into six houses in the Silwan sector of Arab East Jerusalem . |
| 22 | On Dec. 3 a group of industrial countries led by Canada tabled a proposal drafted in co-operation with some developing countries in an effort to break the deadlock on financial services . |
| 23 | On Dec. 1 a group of 226 Vietnamese refugees returned to Vietnam from Hong Kong under the UNHCR Volunteer Repatriation Programme . |
| 24 | In September 1953 a group of Don Juan 's more liberal partisans , of whom the most prominent was the intellectual and journalist , Rafael Calvo Serer , began to propound the idea of a " social monarchy " as an alternative to Franco , and themselves as a " third force " , in opposition both to the Falange and the Catholic conservatives . |
| 25 | Under Charles III a group of ministers and civil servants , distinguished by their energy and their ability , undertook the task of modernizing the monarchy . |
| 26 | On April 10 a group of around 240 Ethiopian academics had submitted a petition to the government demanding its resignation and the creation of a " provisional caretaker government " , to be followed by multiparty elections under international supervision . |
| 27 | And by April 1318 a group of bishops which included Canterbury , Norwich , Chichester , Winchester , Llandaff and Hereford reached an accord with Lancaster about his attendance at future parliaments . |
| 28 | On April 15 a group of doctors threatened to strike against the curfew , which they alleged was preventing them from attending patients . |
| 29 | The last years of Henry VII had been a prosperous period for the port — the average annual sum paid in customs dues from 1504 to 1509 was over £10,000 , and in the early years of Henry VIII a group of merchants had maintained voyages to Brazil . |
| 30 | On June 24 a group of seven reformers — including Damanaki , who had resisted Papariga 's decision to withdraw from the Alliance — had been suspended from the KKE 's central committee . |