Example sentences of "group of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tolman placed three groups of rats in a maze . |
| 2 | Derbyshire ( Matlock ) Three groups of records of general interest are held : papers on the Titus Oates plot , papers relating to the Civil War , and the pre-vesting date archives of the National Coal Board . |
| 3 | He had created a broad consensus among significant groups of Americans in support of a fairer society . |
| 4 | There are essentially three groups of differences between the brains of people with schizophrenia and the brains of non-schizophrenic persons : anatomical , biochemical and functional . |
| 5 | The arrangements are ideal for families or groups of friends with differing interests , including non-sailors . |
| 6 | Pages headed Handout are intended primarily for use when the course is being completed by groups of students under the guidance of an instructor or course leader . |
| 7 | As a result these bodies are not yet in a position to influence the preparation of individual groups of students for higher education . |
| 8 | The progress of groups of students in the higher ( but not the highest ) parts of the class achievement range is often monitored particularly closely by the transmission teacher and used to ‘ steer ’ his or her judgements about the management and development of the lesson for the class as a whole . |
| 9 | This was thrown into sharp relief by a crisis which blew up in February 1956 , as a result of a clash between rival groups of students in a central Madrid street . |
| 10 | Groups of questions on similar tasks were prefaced by a statement of their nature ( e.g. " The next two questions are about change from 50p " ) . |
| 11 | Some groups of signs on the Phaistos Disc are repeated ; these may be refrains , suggesting a song or hymn , or they may simply be recurring words . |
| 12 | But in moving to a second order analysis they looked at the relations between groups of signs in discursive systems . |
| 13 | From 1908 onwards successive governments made adjustments to the income of some groups of parents in the light of their responsibilities ( for example , servicemen , the unemployed , widows and some income tax payers ) . |
| 14 | In Casearia corymbosa ( Flacourtiaceae ) , for instance , there are ecologically distinct groups of birds on the different sides of a mountain range in Costa Rica . |
| 15 | The Heritage Centre , a registered charity , plays host to small prearranged groups of visitors from June until September , and is happy to provide both a short guided tour of the island and excellent afternoon teas for the refreshment of the weary traveller in Sunk Island 's village hall close by . |
| 16 | Perhaps the most important commercial change since the invention of incorporation itself has been the rise of groups of companies with interlinking control and ownership . |
| 17 | Aerobic exercise is exercise that stimulates the large groups of muscles in your body , getting them to contract rhythmically . |
| 18 | Most people , when they laugh , also exercise more than 14 groups of muscles in their face . |
| 19 | Its membership , appointed for renewable four-year terms , has grown over the years and has proved , as it was intended to be , a useful sounding board , especially as it quickly subdivided itself into specialist groups of experts on specific topics — in which , in fact , most of the work of the Committee was to be done . |
| 20 | The practical work of establishing comparability is undertaken by groups of experts from each member state . |
| 21 | In women this panel of antibodies ( without PSA ) gave a level of discrimination between the common groups of tumours of 58% ( table III ) . |
| 22 | Members ' primary duty when acting in the capacity of librarian is to their clients , i.e. the persons or groups of persons for whose requirements and use are intended the resources and services which the members are engaged to provide . |
| 23 | There is experimental evidence , however , that small groups of particles in liquids do arrange themselves in small , ordered and short-lived clusters . |
| 24 | We 're not talking about individual members saying I wan na go here or I wan na go there , we 're talking about groups of memberships within these sorts of branches . |
| 25 | As though he read her mind , Miguel moved closer to her , ignoring the groups of holidaymakers under their sun-loungers , and pulled her against him . |
| 26 | Even when age of acquisition and age at time of test are controlled there is a consistent gap in favour of production over comprehension of BSL for groups of signers with average six , 12 and 20 years ' experience ( Kyle , Woll and Llewellyn-Jones , 1981 ) . |
| 27 | However , an attempt may be made to allocate particular bits or groups of bits in the operation code field to particular features of the instruction ; one bit , for example , might specify whether the result of an operation is to be placed in the accumulator , and another whether the fixed-point arithmetic unit is to be used by the operation . |
| 28 | Seriation , a development of typology , is a method of putting groups of objects into chronological order on the basis of similarities and differences . |
| 29 | Already groups of Operators at both sites are studying for the Chemical Industries/City and Guilds NVQ designed for them . |
| 30 | AFTA would be implemented through the common effective preferential tariff ( CEPT ) mechanism , which would become operational in 1993 , and under which there would be tariff reductions to under 5 per cent on 15 groups of products by 2008 . |