Example sentences of "a group of [noun] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | PAV campaigned in the elections in coalition with the Independent Hungarian Initiative , a group of members of the Hungarian minority in southern Slovakia . |
| 2 | The decision by the Post Office 's powers-that-be to deny the author of Treasure Island and Kidnapped , a place on a planned series of commemorative postage stamps in 1994 — the centenary of his death — has angered a group of members of the Robert Louis Stevenson Society . |
| 3 | The last case of the taking of such an oath seems to be the despatch in the 1770s of a group of representatives of the Swiss cantons to Paris to swear to the observance of an agreement just made with the French government . |
| 4 | At one end was an altar ; and to the side a group of statuary of the Holy Family , on the other stood a plaster saint arrayed in a brown habit . |
| 5 | With the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund , the Society of Dilettanti , the Caryatids ( a group of supporters of the museum 's classical collection ) and others , the museum has now purchased the Townley archive , a remarkable collection of 5,500 documents which fall into three categories : the personal papers of Townley and his immediate heirs relating to the collection ; descriptions of the collection by one ‘ Baron d'Hancarville ’ , a colourful character whose career included imprisonment for debt and banishment for pornography ; and the letters to Townley from his contemporaries . |