Example sentences of "[prep] one group [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , the electoral mechanism ensures that the government does not persistently decide in favour of one group above others since the overt bias in favour of one group will alienate the government from the rest and will lead to the government losing office come the next time it faces its electorate . |
| 2 | ‘ I can not act under pressure of one group of citizens , ’ Mr Adamec said in a televised address , referring to the Civic Forum group which has led resistance to the Communist-dominated government he announced five days ago . |
| 3 | As Tynyanov puts it , ‘ Since a system is not a free interplay of equal elements but presupposes the foregrounding of one group of elements ( ‘ a dominant ’ ) and the deformation of others , a work becomes literature and acquires its literary function through just this dominant' ( O'Toole and Shukman 1977 : 34 ) . |
| 4 | It will be obvious to the reader that the boundaries drawn and phraseology used above are just those of one group of workers . |
| 5 | And that 's the kind of singling out of one group of workers , and making a special case for them , that she really disapproved of . |
| 6 | Disney said yesterday it had reached a settlement with one group of contractors for an undisclosed sum . |
| 7 | In one group of bowerbirds , the males are brightly coloured and build only modest bowers . |
| 8 | These rather artificial bridges from one group of questions to another are useful for keeping the candidate 's mind focused on the right area of response and for helping the interviewer see his/her way through the prearranged structure of the interview . |
| 9 | Rather they transfer purchasing power from one group of consumers , those paying taxes , to another group of consumers , those in receipt of transfer payments or subsidies . |
| 10 | He really wanted to take that visible demonstration of Christian unity from one group of believers to another . |
| 11 | Jumping mechanisms vary considerably from one group of insects to another . |
| 12 | Fuller analysis of the skeletomuscular mechanisms that operate in flight shows that these are complicated and vary appreciably from one group of insects to another . |
| 13 | Our football-following participants are from one group of fans , supporters of just one local club . |
| 14 | By totting up numbers for one group of estates , adding a notional 22 per cent for unrecorded children under twelve , and a further 25 per cent for other omissions , and then multiplying these for the whole of France , Lot calculated a population for Charles the Bald 's kingdom of 26 million . |
| 15 | But for one group of enthusiasts , a week in the shadow of the cooling towers is their idea of a perfect holiday . |
| 16 | For one group of Carlists and one of the Falangist factions , the new party would be the political organ of a regime headed by Francisco Franco — a party whose leader would be appointed by the Generalísimo . |
| 17 | For one group of subjects the A-X serial compound was followed by food and the A-Y sequence was non-reinforced ; for another group the A-X and A-Y compounds were each equally often reinforced and non-reinforced . |
| 18 | Thus , for one group of subjects , A is followed on some trials by both primary and conditioned reinforcement whereas on other trials there is no reinforcer at all ; for the other group , stimulus A is always followed by a reinforcer of some sort . |
| 19 | In this case the CS is at one time associated with a US and at another time is not , and for one group of subjects different contextual cues are correlated with these arrangements . |
| 20 | For the majority , today is just another training day , but for one group of men breakfast has never tasted so good . |
| 21 | They may adopt clothes and hairstyles that belong to one group of contemporaries or another , and change their political or religious views several times . |
| 22 | I sat in my chair with my face close to the table , and while I was talking to one group of visitors , the others used to drive round the table . |
| 23 | It is the only instance in British industrial history when the vast majority of the organized working class have given their industrial , financial and moral support to one group of workers for any length of time . |
| 24 | Yet we do give subsidies to one group of workers , our farmers . |
| 25 | If a lesson involves groupwork , you might even experiment with keeping the camera fixed on one group of learners — it is possible to lock it off without an operator and it need not be too obvious to students that they are being singled out . |
| 26 | The chapter has focused on one group of women in poverty , scanning the research literature for information on mothers in low-income households . |
| 27 | Tests in use today for personnel selection include both multiple aptitude batteries like the Differential Aptitude test which provides the kind of profile described above , and specific aptitude tests like the General Clerical Test which concentrates on one group of skills . |
| 28 | It may reduce contention if comparison in a league table is restricted to those interventions targeted at one condition ( such as cardiovascular disease ) or at one group of patients ( such as elderly people ) . |
| 29 | Some targets and rewards set by one group of women included : |
| 30 | Tighter control of the bureaucracy by one group of politicians may work to the disadvantage of others . |