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

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 She thought of blackened red brick , chalk dust , shoe boxes , muddy hockey boots , the smell of groups of girls in classrooms .
6 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 .
7 At a press conference on May 2 President Vaclav Havel said that he thought that racist attacks by groups of skinheads on Romanies , Vietnamese guest workers and other members of racial minorities were being provoked by supporters or agents of the former communist regime , who were also engaging in disinformation about the situation in the country .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 But in moving to a second order analysis they looked at the relations between groups of signs in discursive systems .
11 Janka et al ( 1983 ) studied Factor VIII-related antigen and β-thromboglobulin levels in groups of diabetics with and without vascular disease .
12 New arrivals were also put in touch with groups of refugees from their own countries .
13 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 .
14 As for indirect taxation , estimated Engel curves relate the expenditure of groups of households on taxed goods to total expenditure .
15 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 ) .
16 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 .
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