Example sentences of "group of [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clinical trials continue with the aim of improving the prognosis for selected groups of medically fit individuals . |
| 2 | Breeding groups of over 2000 have recently been found among the shelf ice of the Weddell Sea ( Hempel and Stonehouse , 1987 ) ; a small breeding population occurs on South Georgia . |
| 3 | Groups ranged from small numbers of participants up to groups of over ninety . |
| 4 | Benavides and Mendoza , who had been tried and convicted in September [ see p. 38414 ] , would not benefit from an amnesty law adopted on Jan. 24 , which was applicable only to groups of over 19 people . |
| 5 | If there is even a vague or sketchy ordering , it will be an ordering of groups of equally similar worlds rather than of individual worlds . |
| 6 | A good example of a way round this is the use made by National Magazine Company , publishers of Vogue and Esquire , of the TGI 's lifestyle questions to construct cluster groups of both male and female populations on the basis of questions relevant to their readers ' interests in fashion , style , shopping and so on . |
| 7 | The Sandinistas lost the 1990 elections to UNO , a loose coalition of opposition groups of both right and left . |
| 8 | the types of course on which they are working e.g. some staff are teaching groups composed entirely of bilingual students while others have small numbers of bilingual students in groups of mostly English-speaking students . |
| 9 | If we can achieve this , we have gone a long way towards solving the axe typology problem since groups of similarly shaped axes would appear as distinct clusters on the page and could be easily identified by eye . |
| 10 | For example , H pylori is implicated in the pathogenesis of atrophic gastritis , which may have led to decreased acid secretion through loss of parietal cells in groups of chronically infected subjects in some studies . |
| 11 | Less well known are the various groups of explicitly anti-Darwinian evolutionists who developed alternative theories in the later part of the century . |
| 12 | The seymouriamorphs appeared in the Upper Carboniferous and developed rapidly and spectacularly into groups of more advanced reptiles , some feeding on plants . |
| 13 | About twice a week , groups of more stable dinghies sail to nearby islands for a picnic and a swim , or visit some tiny taverna along the coast for lunch . |
| 14 | The number of UK groups reached 300 in the early 1980s and has remained around that level ever since — groups of very high quality and certainly not based on ‘ ephemeral enthusiasms ’ ! |
| 15 | At Kew , a large greenhouse , with temperature and humidity controlled at tropical rainforest levels throughout the year , contains a collection of several hundred clones of cocoa ( clones being groups of genetically identical individuals that have been derived from a single parent by asexual reproduction ) . |
| 16 | It arranged for groups of identically qualified white and black applicants to apply for the same jobs in Chicago . |
| 17 | It was in thinly populated regions at or beyond the frontiers of settlement overseas , where shifting bodies of labourers were required , that such groups of genuinely unattached and floating individuals made their presence felt as a group , or were at least more ‘ visible ’ . |
| 18 | Groups of about 5 cells were illuminated alternately with light of 350 nm and 380 nm wavelengths by means of amotor driven filter change wheel . |
| 19 | Demonstrations might prove to be a good way of teaching small groups of about five or six students the use of various tools used for information retrieval . |
| 20 | Each seminar will be staged ( not simultaneously ) at five locations throughout Britain to encourage attendance from as wide a geographical area as possible , and will be designed for groups of about 10 to 15 people to encourage maximum delegate participation . |
| 21 | They are intended for use in discussion-led groups of about 20–30 people and are a valuable aid to teaching and revising for the Institute 's examinations . |
| 22 | After the lecture the cadets are divided into groups of about twenty-five to discuss the implications of all that they have heard . |
| 23 | On the first day of the project , pupils were arranged in six groups of about seven pupils , usually five from Russells Hall and two from Sutton . |
| 24 | Market research companies will , of course , undertake to survey special groups of almost any kind , but the costs of finding , for example , people who have recently bought double-glazing or read romantic novels can be very high . |
| 25 | Thorneycroft ( the Party Chairman ) , Whitelaw and Howell were joined by a group of mostly younger professional advisers and party officials . |
| 26 | Another demonstration was called and when the provincial officials refused negotiations , a group of nearly one hundred students began a hunger strike on 14 October . |
| 27 | What is much more interesting , I have already suggested , is the idea that there could be patterns of behaviour which human beings are entirely capable of wanting and indeed , on an individual or limited scale , of achieving , but which for biological reasons are bound to be psychologically costly , or confined to a small group of otherwise unusual individuals , or otherwise bound to fail as general social institutions . |
| 28 | This evening a group of slightly nervous looking insurance workers are about to try their hand at pilot racing . |
| 29 | they feel confident in using the term ‘ success ’ to describe the experiences of the majority of these families and children and there is little evidence that a group of similarly aged white children growing up with their natural parents would not include a number of children experiencing similar or greater difficulties'. ( pp. 132–3 ) |
| 30 | The Laboulbeniales demonstrate a high degree of host specificity , and by this criterion are highly advanced ; most infect only a single species of arthropod , or at most a small group of closely related host species , and only a few are known to occur on a variety of distantly related hosts . |