Example sentences of "group of [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opposition to the deal is being led by Palau 's small but powerful group of traditional women elders , who say the agreement would have a devastating social economic and political impact on Palau 's society and culture . |
| 2 | For example , if one of a group of grazing horses spots what may be a predator , he will raise his head , neck and tail and flare his nostrils . |
| 3 | Women jeered at Blackshirts who made their way to them , only to find that they had been lured into a group of Communist sympathisers intent on vengeance . |
| 4 | Gathered in the house were members of the Greenwich Village group of young Weathermen revolutionaries , including Diana Oughton , Kathy Boudin , Terry Robbins , Ted Gold and Cathy Wilkerson , the teenage daughter of the wealthy new owners of the house . |
| 5 | A group of burly malai soldiers came jogging in full combat gear from the other direction , the little sergeant who was trotting beside them bestowing on me a suspicious glare . |
| 6 | This is your chance to kick up your heels and support this group of anonymous women artists . |
| 7 | The Spokane site in Washington State was certified to ISO 9001 joining an elite group of electronic materials suppliers around the world to achieve this status . |
| 8 | A GROUP of 60 securities specialists brought together by the Royal Bank of Scotland will propose the phased introduction of a three-day , rolling securities-settlement system and the setting up of an institutional shares clearing house . |
| 9 | While he was exploring the river he was attacked by a group of Indian women warriors who reminded him of the Amazons ( female warriors who appear in ancient Greek myths ) . |
| 10 | A group of concerned Hearts supporters have tonight launched a campaign called Hands Off Tynecastle . |
| 11 | The Oracle7 co-operative-server database has been designed to support SQL query and update transactions that automatically retrieve and modify data on multiple servers , and to enable a group of low-cost servers computers to outperform the largest mainframe , which will not make the thing very popular with IBM Corp , and should offer high reliability because there is no single point of failure . |
| 12 | The ramifications arising from an assault by a group of white police officers on black motorist Rodney King in Los Angeles on March 3 [ see p. 38091 ] grew throughout April as the case developed into a national symbol of general police conduct and institutionalized racism . |
| 13 | A small focus group of Human Resources staff meet occasionally to discuss new ideas , production issues , budget etc . |
| 14 | In the period of technological innovation following the second world war a group of human relations specialists , working from the Tavistock Institute in London , noted that the social behaviour of workers and their organisational structure in groups and teams was influenced by the technical systems associated with that work . |