Example sentences of "group of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John had always a group of dancers within the company whom he particularly liked to work with , and the cast of Sea Change included two of them : Poole as the skipper and Jane Shore as an old woman . |
| 2 | Suzanne Whitworth , a teacher and dancer with Northern Ballet , visited Heighington School with a group of dancers from the Dance-In Studio in Darlington . |
| 3 | Instead , they have allowed a small group of directors of retail stores — Woolworth , Sainsbury , Tesco and the like — to dictate a fundamental change in our way of life for their own self-interest and to the benefit of fewer than 5 per cent . |
| 4 | TORRENTIAL rain greeted a group of golfers from Glasgow 's West George Street Grouping when they went on an outing to Millport Golf Club on the island of Great Cumbrae . |
| 5 | But we forget our lines when we see the audience , a rival group of girls to whom the only boy in our gang has defected . |
| 6 | And had not a pupil of the Arden Convent school complained that he had pinched her bottom while conducting a group of girls on a tour round the Palace of Westminster ? |
| 7 | In my case , growing up just before the new wave of feminism , I consider that the transition from adolescence to adulthood was effected by participation in a strong peer group of girls at school . |
| 8 | There was a large group of girls around her , chorusing this , so I backed off , as I hated people to say that to me when I was hurt . |
| 9 | A similar focus on the war 's effect in shattering class barriers is present in In Which We Serve ( 1942 ) , where the trigger to unity is a torpedoed destroyer rather than a crashed plane , The Gentle Sex ( 1943 ) , which follows a group of women as they are trained to become competent fighters , and Millions Like Us ( 1943 ) , which brings together a mixed group of girls in an aircraft engineering factory . |
| 10 | Christine Griffin ( 1985 ) looked at a group of girls in the same way as Willis had looked at the boys . |
| 11 | This procedure was denounced as " unconstitutional " by a group of ministers including St Luce , the Prime Minister 's son Lester Bird ( Deputy Prime Minister , Minister of External Affairs and Minister of Economic Development and Tourism ) , Hugh Marshall ( Minister of Trade , Industry and Energy ) , Robin Yearwood ( Minister of Public Utilities ) , Eustace Cochrane ( Minister of Public Works and Communications ) and Henderson Simon ( Minister without Portfolio ) , all of whom called on the Prime Minister to resign . |
| 12 | At the start of the following week , James Callaghan , then a young Parliamentary Secretary , was among a group of Ministers outside the Cabinet who were summoned to be told of the Cabinet 's decision . |
| 13 | For instance , the appearance of the partitive expression " one of the ministers ' later in the narrative presupposes an earlier reference to the group of ministers as a whole . |
| 14 | What worried me in looking at the Franks Report is that it was the same group of ministers on the same committee that were dealing with the big issues of war and peace in Middle Europe , with the procurement of nuclear weapons systems . |
| 15 | However , we do n't have to be exact and precise to enjoy this very fine group of roses with their large bunches of fragrant bloom . |
| 16 | Yesterday he smiled for the last time and said he did not wish to obstruct the work of Prime Minister Hans Modrow — who now constitutes , with a small group of associates from Dresden , the only remaining acceptable face of reform within the East German Communist Party . |
| 17 | His work was also shown at the Dada gallery in 1917 , the Cabaret Voltaire , with a very mixed group of artists including Picasso , Arp , De Chirico , Paul Klee and Oscar Kokoshka . |
| 18 | ‘ Regard d'un amateur ’ brings together the photographs of a group of artists including Monica Baumgartel , Connie Beckley , Gwen Akinand Alan Ludwig , Luciano Castelli , Mereth Oppenheim , Pierre Molinier , Ewe Sonneman and Mac Adams , at Farideh Cadot for the whole month . |
| 19 | The exhibition will show a wide range of landscapes by a varied group of artists including Norman Adams , Tom Coates and Sandra Pepys . |
| 20 | In many ways the most interesting aspect of the present sale was the inclusion of a group of artists with established reputations but fresh to the auction market . |
| 21 | There is a distinctive small group of stars between Fomalhaut , in Piscis Australis , and Alpha Pegasi . |
| 22 | Look into the evening sky at any time during northern winter or southern summer , and you can not fail to notice the little group of stars of the Pleiades , otherwise known as the Seven Sisters . |
| 23 | The Southern Cross is a group of stars in the southern hemisphere . |
| 24 | If however I had to single out one particular group of teachers to whom I hope the book will appeal , it is those who have been in the profession for about five to ten years . |
| 25 | 1984 ) describes how a group of teachers of English , critical of orthodox remedial teaching , set about applying the principle of ‘ learning to read by reading ’ to some retarded readers aged around twelve years . |
| 26 | This diverse group of teachers at all levels of education from primary to university was unusual in one particular way : all its members tried their best to be open . |
| 27 | A group of teachers in training watch a recording of a class as a piece of data to be analysed . |
| 28 | Tom Tedder and Corbett Farraday were muttering by the door which led into the main school ; the headmaster , towering yet crumpled , was surrounded by a little group of teachers in the centre of his hall ; and by the door leading to the boarding quarters Mrs Crumwallis was going over the events of the night before with her cook , Mrs Garfitt . |
| 29 | Many valuable training experiences can be arranged within a single school or agency , or by a group of teachers from different schools meeting regularly to carry out an agreed task . |
| 30 | Closer to home , in their statement of educational principles , for example , a group of teachers from Wigan included the following : ‘ Education has the responsibility of operating within a democratic system ; of respecting and nurturing democratic principles ; of being open to change by democratic process ; and , perhaps , most importantly , of encouraging within the young those qualities and skills which enable them to participate in a democracy and ultimately to develop or change it ’ ( Department of Education and Science , 1983 , p. 27 ) . |