Example sentences of "group [pron] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When work group I met last June to ratify the final draft of their report , the US co-chairman , Claire Harris , did not appear . |
| 2 | Anyway , she said she 'd give me something about it on Sunday at NA [ the Narcotics Anonymous Group which meets weekly at Styal ] . |
| 3 | Greenpeace is an international environmental pressure group which maintains complete independence from all political parties anywhere in the world . |
| 4 | And there was more than a smack of sympathy for terrorism in a call by a leading Fundi for a ‘ broad show of unity ’ with a group which shot dead two policemen during a demonstration at Frankfurt airport . |
| 5 | HPI is a member of the Infolink Group which supplies on-line information relating to high value mobile assets , particularly motor vehicles . |
| 6 | The critic may choose to write about common features in the work of the artists exhibiting ; this may lead to generalisations about the group which take little account of the individual qualities of the artists . |
| 7 | Pride of place must go to the sea-lion group which produced two pups . |
| 8 | Attention must be paid to the age of persons with a mental handicap so as to house them in a group which respects this . |
| 9 | In addition it debarred from newspaper ownership any media group which owned three television channels ( as did the national television company Radiotelevisione Italiana — RAI — and the Fininvest company owned by Italy 's leading media magnate Silvio Berlusconi ) . |
| 10 | Indeed , he believes that a very small section of the population , which he calls the business class , now forms a tightly integrated group which dominates British business . |
| 11 | Among the names on the list was that of a former Finance Ministry official and that of Soka Gakkai , a lay Buddhist group which had close links to Komeito . |
| 12 | For Zuwaya or Magharba , the largest group which had common descent for practical purposes was a tribe . |
| 13 | Pamela 's father was the chairman of a large retailing group which included one of the most exclusive stores in Mayfair . |
| 14 | Bains believed ‘ that the advice of officers must be available wherever the effective decisions are taken and if it is the party group which makes those decisions then a way must be found of making the officers ’ advice available ’ ( Bains 1972 : 18 — 19 ) . |
| 15 | The disarming of the Palestinian fighters in early July meant that the Shia fundamentalist Hezbollah was the sole group which remained unaffected by the government 's recent actions . |
| 16 | ‘ The fact is that there is a huge group which sees Labour as a way of furthering the cause of CND . |
| 17 | But responsibility for this should not , retrospectively , be fixed on the small group which initiated these events . |
| 18 | This group , as well as the anti-nuclear movement itself , was strongly influenced by members of Revolutionary Struggle , an extreme left-wing group which mixed neo-Marxist economic analysis with traditional republican ideology and was strongly influenced itself by the revolutionary movement in Italy and , to a lesser extent , France , at the time . |
| 19 | Its chairman , Mr Tony Millar , has done a deal with the US Corporate Partners group which invests some £1billion of funds on behalf of US and foreign institutions like pension funds . |
| 20 | There were seven riders in the scratch group which started two minutes behind the 60-strong first group and they had eliminated this handicap by the second of five laps . |
| 21 | This includes information items written by the information group which occupy some 60 A4 ring binders ( see Figure 5.1 for a sample page ) , leaflets from government departments and other organisations , and reference books from agencies such as the Child Poverty Action Group ( CPAG ) . |
| 22 | This is the United Left , a Communist-dominated group which looks likely to win between 24 and 30 seats . |
| 23 | It is this group which has greatest acquaintanceship with the facts and techniques of sex and sexuality and the least inhibition surrounding them . |
| 24 | TAKARE , the nursing-homes group which has three establishments in Scotland , saw 1992 pre-tax profits soar by by 56 per cent , from £7.6 million to £11.8 million , writes Richard Shackleton . |
| 25 | It is emphasized still further when we see that of the latter group none has external lockboard battens . |
| 26 | Now there have been some allegations flying around that there are people in the parliamentary Labour Party who want to get rid of that link and I want to categorically say that there is no serious figure in the Labour Party who shares that opinion there 's no one in the G M B group who takes that view there 's no one in the Shadow Cabinet and what is more , I know from my own personal experience , and my dealings with him over thirty years , that there is no greater supporter of the trades union link than John Smith himself ! |
| 27 | In the West Riding woollen manufacture the independent working clothiers had long used the spring shuttle , and as a group who produced much of the food needs of their households were well enough protected from the high food prices of the war years . |
| 28 | The group who produced this version attempted to create a balance between , on the one hand , the central action of the shooting , and , on the other , the more 'static " descriptions of the rain , the hospital and the courtyard . |
| 29 | In the present situation , the officers find themselves in a very difficult position , I can not imagine an officer saying no to a member and this is what has happened if we run out of money , then the very thing that we are seeking to do , in other words to implement the democratic process to allow people to come to meetings and speak will go by the way , and I can remember some time ago when I was a new member on here saying I would be prepared to attend property sub-committee briefings as a deputy and not be paid and I was very smartly brought up by a friend in the labour group who said that 's all right for you , you can afford it , but it 's not alright for some of us 'cause we can't. and the difficulty is if we run out of money and we either have to stop the allowances or we have to slash the allowances , yeah , knows who it was , we have to slash the allowances , then legitimately people will be able to say that the democratic process is being stifled because they are not going to be allowed to go to meetings , and therefore , I think that situations whereby a member attends to speak to a , an item , a specific item and then stays on for a double length meetings and claims double length allowances that sort of thing has got to be stopped , and also members attending just to nod approval at something that has happened that they 've been associated with , that should stop , if they want to come they should come at their own expense . |
| 30 | Yes indeed the Irish Railway Record Society which is based at Hueston Station in Dublin has a very active London Area Group who hold regular meetings . |