Example sentences of "[noun] of groups of [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The discussion will fall into two parts : an examination , first , of the sort of information that can be gleaned from a study of individual coins , and , second , of how the study of groups of coins can throw light on contemporary propaganda .
2 Accordingly I have looked at examples from evolutionary biology , physiology and the study of groups of organisms or of habitats , In 1982 Darwinism was defended and neo-Darwinism re-affirmed ; Evolutionary Principles is Peter Calow 's contribution to the central concept of biology .
3 Therefore , Piaroa boys are not constrained into learning the aggressive stance of young warriors to fight men of this world ; they do not learn to accept the dominance relationships of groups of men over other groups of men .
4 Hence , no doubt , the plots of her novels , which all revolve around the warm relationships of groups of characters .
5 For example , types of worker resistance which derive from spontaneous , unofficial initiatives on the part of groups of workers often benefit from a degree of tacit legitimacy , in the sense that those in authority may ‘ turn a blind eye ’ to various workshop practices .
6 The correlations for subtests of groups of items on a particular topic were mostly between 0.6 and 0.8 , although two were 0.4 and 0.5 respectively .
7 The progress of groups of students in the higher ( but not the highest ) parts of the class achievement range is often monitored particularly closely by the transmission teacher and used to ‘ steer ’ his or her judgements about the management and development of the lesson for the class as a whole .
8 The basic question is this : is information represented in the brain at the level of individual cells or at the level of groups of cells ?
9 Perhaps the most important commercial change since the invention of incorporation itself has been the rise of groups of companies with interlinking control and ownership .
10 She thought of blackened red brick , chalk dust , shoe boxes , muddy hockey boots , the smell of groups of girls in classrooms .
11 But this is sometimes taken to mean the formation of groups of teachers to generate their own ideas without reference to theory and research of a more rigorous and academic character .
12 true in the actual world iff true throughout a range of groups of worlds reasonably close to the actual world .
13 This would be likely to include the tracking through services and follow-up of groups of clients , through detailed description and in depth interviewing of professionals , clients , and carers , and would be designed to get closer to measures of quality of care and of outcome .
14 It is important to grasp birth control very much within the context of the particular customs and needs of groups of workers , and it is notable , for instance , that the poor and the unemployed generally had a high birthrate .
15 The long term outcome of groups of patients was compared with log rank significance testing .
16 The apparent complexity of the formidable navigational behaviour that many insects display is , in fact , based on the interplay of groups of subroutines which are themselves quite simple .
17 With me it is the sound of groups of bars that form a phrase .
18 As the discipline develops , the amalgamation of groups of practitioners having particular issues as central becomes clearer , so that one might even talk of specific ‘ schools ’ within the discipline .
19 In fact while we find duces in charge of groups of civitates , they also appear as leaders of royal armies , without any clear geographical base , and they were to be found engaged in a wide variety of other activites , including diplomatic missions .
20 Military governors-general were to be put in charge of groups of provinces throughout the empire , not just in the imperial borderlands and in St Petersburg and Moscow .
21 But while this may be true for matters concerning individual patients , as family relationships often develop severe tensions and problems , it is rarely true of the relatives of groups of patients who , when involved in planning and running services , show collective good sense and experience in addressing practical problems .
22 Among other offences committed by these royal justices was the denunciation of bishops for employing , on the visitations of their dioceses , the sworn evidence of groups of parishioners ; the practice of the sworn inquest , so these justices maintained , was solely the prerogative of the king .
23 But , by exploring the aspirations and motivations of groups of blacks who were highly charged and who brought extraordinary energy to their chosen tasks , I thought I might find some clues as to the kinds of things which move black kids : what makes them tick .
24 These include the acknowledgement of groups of buyers ( markets ) in search of means to satisfy their needs , and the efforts made by producers to meet those needs in a profitable manner .
25 Changing the content of a problem from a stereotypically ‘ female ’ setting such as nutrition to a ‘ male ’ setting such as building can reverse the rank order of the success rates of groups of boys and girls .
26 Include interests of groups of individuals and/or companies if known , even if less than 3% held by individual members of the group . )
27 Research which has investigated performance hierarchies in the school years has generally done so in terms of the performance of groups of learners .
28 Walker 's most liberating pictures of femininity are the many watercolours of groups of women sometimes with children gathered by the sea .
29 Network studies have given us various instances of groups of women who are less standard speakers than comparable groups of men .
30 Alun Morgan and Dr Jon Saunders of the department of genetics and microbiology at the University of Liverpool , working with Dr Roger Pickup of the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology , Windermere , form one of a number of groups of scientists developing techniques to spot a GEM .
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