Example sentences of "be [adj] among [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were also admired for their military prowess , it being widely assumed that before the arrival of the British the Masai had been paramount among the tribes of East Africa ; they were ‘ aristocrats and formerly conquered east central Africa ’ . |
| 2 | When I got myself transferred over to your department , I discovered that you 're well-known among the girls in the office . |
| 3 | In so doing Clovis is thought to have been unique among the kings of the continental successor states . |
| 4 | She states that ‘ geology and botany are unique among the sciences as both fields rely upon major government agencies to provide fundamental research information ’ . |
| 5 | Strongyloides is unique among the nematodes of veterinary importance being capable of both parasitic and free-living reproductive cycles . |
| 6 | Man is unique among the apes in that he grows a long beard , and it is to this that he owes his superior intelligence |
| 7 | As a medium it is supreme among the arts in its ability to portray the real world , hut it is in itself quite artificial , and it speaks to us by way of a pictorial language which first took shape during the early days of the silent cinema . |
| 8 | Despite the fact that Aethelburh was accompanied north when she married by Paulinus as her chaplain , and that Paulinus was subsequently consecrated bishop of York by Archbishop Justus in 625 or 626 ( HE 11 , 9 ) , Eadwine did not hasten to embrace the new faith and it needs to be emphasized that his eventual baptism was untypical among the Anglo-Saxons at this time . |
| 9 | In recent years , however , there has been a growing tendency to question the assumption that , prior to the advent of Christianity , Israel was unique among the nations of antiquity in the significance it attached to history and the non-repeatability of events . |
| 10 | Alcuin was resident among the Northumbrians in 790 and remained there for some time in the hope of influencing Aethelred , whose accession he welcomed , though evidently to no avail for shortly after he declared that he was working against injustice and that Aethelred 's attitude was not as he had hoped . |
| 11 | He worked hard , which was rare among the undergraduates of Magdalene College in those days , and came out with a high degree in mathematics . |