Example sentences of "was [conj] a group " in BNC.

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1 The first cover story for the airstrip was that a group of businessmen wanted to start up a tourist resort there .
2 The idea was that a group of us would move into a big house and have young people as ‘ staff ’ helping us .
3 The idea was that a group of them should take back the second of the Shahs planes to Teheran , contact those military commanders known to be most loyal to the Shah and convince them to hijack Khomeinis plane when , as the assumed he would , he flew back to Teheran from Paris .
4 Essentially , what had to happen was that a group of adolescent males without females had to obtain some , without allowing their group to dissolve in internecine strife over who would become the owner of the newly acquired females .
5 Well , you 're at New College , now who 's the ‘ we ’ , was that a group of women , or were there men who were
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