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

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1 We 're not talking about individual members saying I wan na go here or I wan na go there , we 're talking about groups of memberships within these sorts of branches .
2 But in moving to a second order analysis they looked at the relations between groups of signs in discursive systems .
3 While at one level a functional difference was probably intended , the relationship between groups of buildings at certain sites strongly suggests that there is a social distinction cutting across the functional dimension .
4 Even when age of acquisition and age at time of test are controlled there is a consistent gap in favour of production over comprehension of BSL for groups of signers with average six , 12 and 20 years ' experience ( Kyle , Woll and Llewellyn-Jones , 1981 ) .
5 In a number of other areas the national perspective was maintained either by mini projects which provided a framework within which colleges could operate and develop their units , or by SCOTVEC providing advice , assistance and initial leadership ( together with on-going administrative support ) for groups of colleges in consortium — so called Nationally Led Consortia .
6 The other one erm is within the university itself because we do have a support organisation here for teaching within the university , and it is possible for groups of teachers in any part of the university to ask for some help and support in looking at one of the courses they 're involved in teaching .
7 As this is often linked up with annuities , endowment policies and private pension plans , several of the major life assurance companies , such as the Legal and General Assurance Society ( address on page 155 ) run their own courses as a service for their prospective pensioners , for groups of employees of large companies , or for individuals from smaller companies .
8 Programmes can be organised for groups of schools via an LEA representative such as TVEI , Equal Opportunities , Careers , or other Educational initiatives eg EBPs , SATROs , Neighbourhood Engineers etc .
9 In just the same way , evolution consists of genes spreading at each other 's expense , but many , perhaps most , genetic mechanisms are about enforcing common interest of groups of genes over the selfish ambitions of the few .
10 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 .
11 She thought of blackened red brick , chalk dust , shoe boxes , muddy hockey boots , the smell of groups of girls in classrooms .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 As for indirect taxation , estimated Engel curves relate the expenditure of groups of households on taxed goods to total expenditure .
16 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 .
17 New arrivals were also put in touch with groups of refugees from their own countries .
18 A useful initiative taken at this time was the establishment of the Great Britain-East Europe Centre , designed to take cultural relations out of the hands of the ‘ Friendship Societies ’ which had restricted visitors from the ‘ People 's Democracies ’ to contact with groups of fellow-travellers in this country .
19 Thus the reading teacher is faced with groups of children at various stages of motivation and preparation .
20 Some mornings we galloped over the open plain below the Legation ; at that hour the tracks were threaded with groups of villagers on their way to market in Addis Ababa .
21 Janka et al ( 1983 ) studied Factor VIII-related antigen and β-thromboglobulin levels in groups of diabetics with and without vascular disease .
22 Therefore , to prove their usefulness the suggested criteria for hypoxaemia will have to be prospectively validated in other clinical settings , at sea level and above , and in groups of patients with a range of severity of disease .
23 The dead were separated from the living not only by the fact of death , but also by being laid to rest in groups of graves at some distance from the towns and villages , on the edge of the desert .
24 Anyone working in the GIS research field is conscious of the links that need to be made to groups of researchers in other disciplines .
25 Two research projects have been funded by Scottish Enterprise to a total of £80,000 : the SHEEC project focusing on the accreditation of company in-house management qualifications and the DEAL project which is examining AWBL issues in relation to groups of workers at ICI and Strathclyde Region .
26 This is perhaps the result of a deliberately indifferent attitude by the composer , who says that the piece can be played by most instruments as a solo , or by groups of instruments as ensembles ; that the general tempo can be between = 42 and 132 , the duration between four and twelve minutes ; and that the ordering of different melodic strands can be quite haphazard .
27 He had taken a captured Italian Lancia lorry along on the trip , as he had heard that there was a roadhouse at Mersa Brega used by groups of officers for meetings .
28 Pages headed Handout are intended primarily for use when the course is being completed by groups of students under the guidance of an instructor or course leader .
29 The second is the introduction of group representation theory in which groups are represented ( via homomorphisms ) by groups of matrices with complex number entities .
30 The practical work of establishing comparability is undertaken by groups of experts from each member state .
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