Example sentences of "group of [noun pl] [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lastly we have a third group of customers who know that a brief telephone call with an experienced Matroc technician and the subsequent systematic processing would bring them significantly more than 50 pages of technical details . |
| 2 | There is a regular group of teachers who work in pairs with this class . |
| 3 | The Bond family claim a group of paintings which include a very rare portrait of Mathew Flinders , and the National Australia Bank and Bond Mining & Exploration dispute another group , which will nonetheless be sold and the claim settled retrospectively . |
| 4 | Since then little work has been done on the loco by the small group of owners who like everyone else have been hampered by lack of funds . |
| 5 | Organised by ex-P&O Chief Engineer , Bernard Hill , it was attended by a group of friends who have kept in touch over the years , and got together in Hermanus , near Cape Town , at the home of Albert Morris who retired as a director of P&O Lines Passenger Services in 1968 . |
| 6 | It is a looser form of group association , primarily defined by shared theory and practice , and its immediate social relations are often not easy to distinguish from those of a group of friends who share common interests . |
| 7 | There 's a second group of students who write to me after that letter in May , and say , ‘ I no longer want to do English at university . |
| 8 | Lindon Singers practice , group of singers who give concerts for charity , 14 Beech Road , Oatlands , Harrogate . |
| 9 | This term includes a group of diseases which affect the retina . |
| 10 | This approach has been highly successful with the thalassaemias , a group of disorders which bear many similarities to sickle cell disease . |
| 11 | The position would , of course , have been plainer if Parliament had provided an expanded express definition of ‘ company ’ for the purposes of the group of sections which relate to administrative receivers , such as was done in the case of section 388(4) of the Act of 1986 , and was also done , for example , in section 22(2) ( b ) of the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 , where company is defined as including ‘ any company which may be wound up under Part V of the Insolvency Act . ’ |
| 12 | In a letter to Gilbert dated 16 November , 1840 he wrote : ‘ As I find the fauna of New Holland quite distinct and that of New Zealand to belong to an entirely different group of Islands I have determined not to include it in the present work ; you will therefore not go there … ’ |
| 13 | The Sorrel Quartet , a young group of musicians who have played all over the world , were joined by violist Roger Bigley , a founder member of the Lindsay Quartet , to play two Mozart String Quintets , No 1 in B flat , K174 , and No 4 in G minor , K516 . |
| 14 | ‘ The recording is of a large group of females which meet up every day to socialise , ’ he said . |
| 15 | This last category is by far the largest group of Americans who find suitable housing beyond their grasp . |
| 16 | This team came into being to fulfil a need in the Society for a means of showing our work at the very best level ; a group of performers who practise regularly together and have the facility to form up in teams of varying number according to the need at the time . |
| 17 | We 're going live to Gloucester , where Kim Barnes is with a group of women who hope to be among the first to benefit from today 's vote . |
| 18 | In a small adjoining room next door a group of women who act as counsellors and administrators were waiting to meet her . |
| 19 | A group of women who have all , as individuals , reached this level of development , has great possibilities , which go far beyond the natural bonding of women and the sharing of resources . |
| 20 | As Paul is to be the protector , the STG partners think it best to have trustees outside the firm , so we 'll arrange that through the group of accountants we deal with in Bermuda . ’ |
| 21 | The deadlock may be broken by Alberto Vicari , a German despite his Italian name , who represents a group of shareholders who control 5% of Continental 's stock . |
| 22 | On the night of Jan. 22-23 , the national radio station in Kinshasa , Voix du Zaïre , was occupied by a group of soldiers who broadcast statements calling for the dismissal of Nguza 's government and the resumption of the national conference . |
| 23 | Many of these questions fit very comfortably within that group of activities we call " librarianship " : the building up of collections of information materials , their organization for retrieval and use , the provision of suitable areas and facilities for prolonged study , the development of lending and reservation systems , of co-operative interlending procedures and networks , and the provision of full bibliographic and reference guidance . |
| 24 | It was backed by a group of mothers whom OPZZ leaders described as tearful . |
| 25 | But there 's a small group of farmers who say the reforms do n't go far enough , and that there should be a complete rethink of the way we farm our countryside . |
| 26 | One of the strengths Scotland has enjoyed is having a group of players who have become stronger than the individuals . |
| 27 | One way in which such factors are isolated is by comparing parents known to batter their children with a control group of parents who have no history of child abuse ( Lynch and Roberts 1977 , for example ) . |
| 28 | A circle is basically a group of parents who share out babysitting duties between them , on a rota basis . |
| 29 | If you have a group of parents who want something particular from a school and are going to organise themselves into a group to pressurise that school , they 'll do it whether there 's a P T A there or not . |
| 30 | Then there is a group of offences which prohibit sexual activities with young people , whether they appear to consent or not : whilst there is little dispute about the need for some such offences , there is room for disagreement on the proper boundaries of the criminal law and on the role of prosecutorial discretion . |