Example sentences of "group [conj] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was an acceptance here that the WEA was not necessarily educating for political and social action : its task was to create a better-informed citizen democracy , whether or not its students went on to join pressure groups or assume civic office . |
| 2 | For instance by encouraging an active interest in the environment in which we live , and by supporting groups or promoting cleaner technology , less pollution and less waste , we 're ensuring the quality of life for future generations , and also the potential for future business opportunities . |
| 3 | You can also use them to compare two similar groups or to follow one group through a period of time and observe any change in attitude . |
| 4 | What is more , co-operative R&D ventures may provide a forum in which firms learn to co-operate and collude with each on a wider basis , particularly if they create well-defined strategic groups that bring peer-group pressure to bear on each other whenever incentives to cheat appear . |
| 5 | They were accused of belonging to Islamic groups that attacked Israeli soldiers . |
| 6 | For the groups that eschew unconventional behaviour — and there may be tactical as well as principled reasons for doing so — the focus and target of pressure is likely to be the people who make the laws and policies and/or the people who implement them . |
| 7 | Not all of Japan 's leading companies are members of groups that have particular banks at their centre . |
| 8 | Chemical groups that have these characteristics are as follows . |
| 9 | General practitioners are also active members of focus groups that discuss particular areas of service such as diabetes . |
| 10 | One important structural relationship is that between bureaucracies and groups that represent particular interests . |
| 11 | The arts community is confident the measure will pass easily since the proposal enjoys the strong support of both Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Dan Rostenkowski , chairmen respectively of the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways & Means Committee , the Congressional groups that originate all tax legislation . |
| 12 | I had not originally intended to make a great issue of the fact , but it is true to say that the pressure groups that study these matters in great detail are incensed at the way in which the orders have been introduced . |
| 13 | To prevent such a sequence of events the church must seek continual spiritual renewal ; deploy a high proportion of its members to work in the external constituency ; in McGavran 's terminology , to turn them into class two leaders and workers , i.e. ‘ members whose energies are primarily directed to serving and evangelising non-Christians in their ministry area in an effort to bring them into the Body of Christ ’ , and to establish new groups and plant new congregations . |
| 14 | People are realizing that you just can not expect much of them and that one way of improving local lives is to get together in local communities and groups and participating wider area networks and in such coalitions of people , th th they manage to keep some sort of community spirit and activity going . |
| 15 | They based their studies on the coal mines where , owing to increased mechanisation , the miners were merged into larger and larger groups , found it difficult to identify their share of the work within the enlarged groups and suffered low morale : productivity was falling . |
| 16 | We were split into groups and given some clues . |
| 17 | The teams were split into three groups and played each other in a round-robin . |
| 18 | However , on the physical science course , this module took the form of looking at the problems students might face as scientific managers in industry : issues like risk management , the problems of pollution , dealing with pressure groups and preparing public reports . |
| 19 | The authors ' procedures , presented later , rely upon twenty muscle groups and involve hypnotic-type suggestion to enhance the physical experience of relaxation . |
| 20 | Dr Pentreath said there would now need to be two registers , each containing data derived from two organisations thus confusing the public and independent groups and undermining public confidence . |
| 21 | He took a group of young boys and monitored their play , divided them into three groups and showed each group one of three scenarios and then monitored them again . |
| 22 | We reiterate : the dominant beliefs of the alliances which we have termed historical blocs are not necessarily shared by all but are promoted successfully by dominant groups and have some grounding in the consciousness of the wider membership . |
| 23 | Big brother was happy with any group that had long hair . |
| 24 | Mr Wrigglesworth is deputy chairman of Middlesbrough-based engineer Livingstone Group that includes Northern Machine Tools , and Darlington engineer DFN within its operations . |
| 25 | The use of a particular language does not necessarily coincide either with a group that claims common descent , or a geographical area or what is supposedly a culture . |
| 26 | Mean home-range size plotted against weight of the group that inhabits that home-range for different genera of primates . |
| 27 | how to group and arrange numerical data in rank order , in simple and useful tables and in percentage form |
| 28 | These consist very largely of colleges of technology and technical colleges which offer only a minority of advanced courses and where most of their students are in the sixteen to nineteen age group and taking non-advanced courses . |
| 29 | The Medellín cartel had pressed for the confession stipulation to be dropped ; it wished to be considered as a group and given political status [ see p. 37851 ] . |
| 30 | The cartel 's leader Pablo Escobar Gaviria remained at large , however , and several journalists were taken hostage , some of whom were murdered , to reinforce the traffickers demands that they be treated as a group and given political status like former guerrillas , who were given an absolute pardon on surrendering [ see pp. 37851 ; 37914 ; 37957-58 ] . |