Example sentences of "of a group [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Denis Brailsford , an inter-war spectator and a distinguished sports historian , recalled that he first went to football in the 1930s as part of his father 's extended family of miners and their wives , who made up the core of a group that regularly went to Mansfield Town 's home games . |
| 2 | Even fish remains are rather local , and do not adequately reflect the abundance of a group that has occupied the seas for more than 400 million years . |
| 3 | ‘ I was a mathematics don at Cambridge living a rather sheltered life , but I was part of a group that enjoyed playing cards . |
| 4 | I 'm not saying it 's one that the tribunal should have accepted , but , but , but what I 'm saying is th there is an element of psychological truth in that , because if Freud 's theories if er bond Freud theory group behaviour is correct , then that does seem to happen some extent that the leader as it were takes and presumably this is why some people erm presumably er feel better in groups , perhaps that they get something out of a group that their own ego can not provide , but other people are uncomfortable in groups because they feel that their ego is being alienated and they 're losing some of their some of their power . |
| 5 | But the existence of a group where the products from one factory may be marketed in another allows for the possibility of products being internally sold . |
| 6 | Comparison is also used to explain a current phenomenon by comparing the past experience of the group where it is occurring with that of a group where it is not occurring . |
| 7 | The growth of slimming clubs is a reminder that many people find it helpful to lose weight if they 're part of a group where they can swap stories and share experiences — but slimming clubs do n't necessarily work for everyone . |
| 8 | In all cases , however , a rule is something that is held and accepted as right and legitimate by the members of a group or society . |
| 9 | As a sociologist , what he is interested in is the knowledge of a social group and as a Marxist he is interested in the ‘ maximum potential consciousness ’ of a group or class — what it could know and still remain a coherent group . |
| 10 | Ideology in this context may be defined as ‘ a set of closely related beliefs or ideas , or even attitudes characteristic of a group or community ’ . |
| 11 | They are numerous and complex and include , dealing as a principal , unless as a dealer who regularly buys or sells or solicits members of the public to do so ; dealing between companies in a group or participators in a joint enterprise or entered into by one member of a group or joint enterprise on behalf of another ; transactions entered into in connection with a sale or goods or services , eg. financial packages offered by exporters including some element of investment ; activities in connection with employees ' share schemes . |
| 12 | The concept of ‘ rule ’ is used here in a ‘ strong ’ sense — that is , as something held ( although often tacitly ) by all members of a group or community as representations of legitimacy and acceptability . |
| 13 | ‘ Scientific knowledge , like language , is intrinsically the common property of a group or else nothing at all . |
| 14 | Others become symbolic of a group or a nation — the bowler hat , the kilt . |
| 15 | In the human sciences data can encompass narrowly conceived bodily movements , complex packages of statements about motives and attitudes , quantitative descriptions of whole aggregates of people , including whole societies , and highly detailed qualitative descriptions of the life of a group or community . |
| 16 | Perhaps his imagination was fuelled initially by the comradeship of a group and the creativity it could galvanise . |
| 17 | The next step , that of being ‘ participant as an observer ’ , requires observers to adopt roles which enable them to become a member of a group and yet to be able to ask questions without fully disclosing their roles as researchers . |
| 18 | They used a method that became known as ‘ participant observation ’ , in which the researcher both observes the social processes of a group and actually participates in the life of that group . |
| 19 | Anyone who has seen the martins and swallows in September , assembling on the telephone wires , twittering , making short flights singly and in groups over the open , stubbly fields , returning to form longer and even longer lines above the yellowing verges of the lanes — the hundreds of individual birds merging and blending , in a mounting excitement , into swarms , and these swarms coming loosely and untidily together to create a great , unorganized flock , thick at the centre and ragged at the edges , which breaks and re-forms continually like clouds or waves — until that moment when the greater part ( but not all ) of them know that the time has come : they are off and have begun once more that great southward flight which many will not survive ; anyone seeing this has seen at work the current that flows ( among creatures who think of themselves primarily as part of a group and only secondarily , if at all , as individuals ) to fuse them together and impel them into action without conscious thought or will : has seen at work the angel which drove the First Crusade into Antioch and drives the lemmings into the sea . |
| 20 | Although in ‘ The Outsiders ’ he has more of a group and social life as he spends most of his time with friends or his brothers . |
| 21 | This is particularly important if the target was part of a group because some assets may not be owned by the company which uses them . |