Example sentences of "groups [det] as [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nitto Albion , an Anglo Japanese Consortium , has been granted planning permission for the golf course , but pressure groups such as the Ramblers Association objected because existing paths would have to be diverted . |
| 2 | Taxpayers have paid heavily for peace since then , through labour contracts that are meticulously rubbished in booklets from private lobbying groups such as the Citizens Budget Commission ( CBC ) . |
| 3 | Although other Christian groups such as the Methodists and Catholics were active in Rhodesia a kind of gentleman 's agreement meant each kept within a fairly well defined territory . |
| 4 | As Hill demonstrated , Miltonic ideas which scholars can trace back to antiquity were commonplaces to seventeenth-century radical groups such as the Levellers and Ranters . |
| 5 | However , the overwhelming " yes " vote could only have been achieved with the additional support of the larger of the republic 's minority groups such as the Armenians ( 9 per cent of the population ) , Azerbaijanis ( 5 per cent ) and even the Russians ( 7.4 per cent ) . |
| 6 | Cuvier was influential , but he did not have everything his own way , and rival groups such as the transmutationists were able to make their case with a fluency that historians have ignored until recently . |
| 7 | Thus , for example , in the National Health Service groups such as the consultants , junior doctors , administrators , nursing staff , GPs and so on , will all be striving to influence the organisation and to get their views accepted by the organisation . |
| 8 | This trend was welcomed by articulate working class women 's groups such as the Women 's Cooperative Guild , because of poor working class housing conditions and because they believed that working class wives needed a respite from the cares of managing a household . |
| 9 | The scheme only operated because of the assistance given voluntarily by groups such as the Women 's Voluntary Service , 17,000 of whose members were mobilised on 1 September . |
| 10 | Nominations may be made by local ward committees , party groups such as the women 's section , and by affiliated organizations , principally affiliated trade unions . |
| 11 | In the UK , in 1984 a bill was introduced in parliament seeking legal safeguards to ensure that computerised personal health data about patients is available only to health professionals and not to groups such as the police , tax authorities , industry , and social services personnel . |
| 12 | In other words , it might be argued that wealth , whether inherited or earned , is not sufficient to give real power , and neither are the traditional status groups such as the clergy , the military and intellectuals able to command as before . |
| 13 | The nematodes and the related nematomorphs may be relatively primitive , but the present proximity of groups such as the rotifers and the related acanthocephalans could require revision . |
| 14 | Although alliances with producer groups such as the trades unions may be sought , the absence of independent industrial muscle renders them , in Bachrach and Baratz 's terms , ‘ influential ’ rather then ‘ powerful ’ . |
| 15 | In 1650 , the Rump of the Long Parliament replaced the 1648 Blasphemy Act with their own far less harsh legislation , which although it continued to outlaw the extreme beliefs of disruptive fringe groups such as the Ranters , signalled a far more liberal approach on the part of the civil authorities . |