Example sentences of "[noun] group " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some cases groups of villagers rented them , in others local landowners and in others again merchants , who took them on a speculative basis ( 209 , p.282 ) . |
| 2 | Individual teachers , or in some cases groups of teachers in cooperation , will need to plan their own school units . |
| 3 | As a result of a voluntary agreement between the tobacco industry and the government , a system of four tar groups has been established : |
| 4 | I was saying that the proportion of advertising expenditure given was for that in the two lowest tar groups , which was rather less than the proportion of total sales . |
| 5 | to , to run alongside audio description groups , you could be |
| 6 | A year-long survey of the habits of 24,000 adults in England , Wales and Scotland has found that people with an annual household income of £20,000 or more have considerably higher levels of attendance than those in lower income groups . |
| 7 | Essentially three loan packages are available for different income groups . |
| 8 | When these nets also started to fish up cetaceans ( mainly Burmeister 's porpoise ) as an incidental catch , the fishermen discovered a ready market for porpoise meat among lower income groups . |
| 9 | Joanna Foster , chairwoman of the Equal Opportunities Commission , says that while virtually every politician and company has accepted that more must be done , there have been more words than action : ‘ Provision is patchy and mostly accessible only to high income groups . |
| 10 | Mr Livingstone attributed Labour 's defeat to an economic policy hidebound by the need to defend the level of sterling inside the European exchange rate mechanism and an unwillingness to finance Labour 's spending commitments from defence cuts rather than tax increases on middle income groups . |
| 11 | The produce is mainly fruit and luxury vegetables for upper income groups . |
| 12 | The declining contribution made by cereals and pulses to calorie intake affects the low income groups ( López Cordovez 1982 ) . |
| 13 | Between the initiation of the Chilean price index in December 1978 and April 1983 , the index registered a 157.5 per cent increase for low-income families and a 142.7 per cent increase for higher income groups . |
| 14 | Research shows that lone parents belong to lower income groups which have been hard hit , kept in the poverty trap by changes in benefits and the income support system , which reduces support pound for pound , without compensation for childcare , whenever the woman begins to earn . |
| 15 | Redistribution between income groups |
| 16 | Thus , in the top tenth of pensioner income groups , social security contributes only a quarter of gross income . |
| 17 | The Scottish study shows that two thirds of the male clients were employed and are increasingly in higher earning brackets but of the female clients an increasing number are in lower income groups . |
| 18 | A comparison of 1970 and 1983 shows that the share of the poor sections of the population declined in favour of the higher income groups : this was mainly an urban phenomenon . |
| 19 | Opposition to development from lower income groups is more likely to be motivated by anger at the focus on up-market housing than by a desire to preserve a golden past which they are well aware has never existed . |
| 20 | There is evidence from HMOs that higher income groups gain greater health benefits from the system than do lower income groups ( Ware , 1986 ) . |
| 21 | There is evidence from HMOs that higher income groups gain greater health benefits from the system than do lower income groups ( Ware , 1986 ) . |
| 22 | While city agencies have argued that the encouragement of higher income groups into a low- or moderate-income area has a stabilising effect , the lobbying efforts of an apparently unrepresentative group , which also counted amongst its achievements the zone enforcement in respect of unlicensed multi-occupancy property and the installation of street furniture with public funding in character with the prestigious Deutschland Square development , raise the question of stability for whom . |
| 23 | There was no mobility between income groups , backgrounds … ’ |
| 24 | Robert Kilroy-Silk claims that Bryan Gould ‘ has arrogated to himself the exclusive right to speak for southern England middle income groups . ’ |
| 25 | The figures in Appendix I , Table 4 suggest that paying off credit agreements typically absorbs roughly twice as high a proportion of income for someone in the lowest income group as it does for people in higher income groups . |
| 26 | However , the fact that fewer people in low income groups use credit at all means that , of those who do , a higher proportion are likely to be heavy credit users . |
| 27 | The Committee of London Clearing Bankers told us that in recent years the banks have been opening an increasing number of accounts for customers in the middle to lower income groups . |
| 28 | Lower income groups use more physical aggression . |
| 29 | Only two members of the Royal Commission ( William Knowles and J. Walter Clarke ) were concerned with redistribution between income groups . |
| 30 | The majority were concerned only with the redistribution between income groups . |