Example sentences of "be among [art] [adj -est] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These arrangements of Bayezid II's seem to be among the earliest occurrences of , and may well have helped to set the pattern for , a number of joint muderrisliks and muftiliks which appear in the course of the sixteenth century , many of which were at a relatively high level in the hierarchy . |
| 2 | Secondly , as Knox argued after publication of the RAWP report , people who are dying are among the heaviest users of services . |
| 3 | Lone parents , 91 per cent of whom are women , are among the poorest members of the population . |
| 4 | For several decades they have been studying superbly preserved fossils from the rocks of the Burgess shale , found in the Canadian Rockies , which are among the earliest fossils of complicated organisms . |
| 5 | Not only does Nithard say in which vernacular languages the two kings addressed their men ( though he records the addresses in Latin ) , but he gives the ensuing oaths in vernacular texts that are among the earliest examples of Old High German and Old French . |
| 6 | Many of these works , because they were printed in small numbers at obscure presses , are among the rarest books in our literature . |
| 7 | Heathers are among the best shrubs for winter colour — they 're not as demanding as the summer-flowering ones , and an acid soil is n't essential , as long as it is n't very chalky . |
| 8 | The weapons are made for me on Clabidacia V , the home world of spidery exters with delicate filaments instead of limbs who are among the finest micro-engineers in the SenFed . |
| 9 | Beck 's analysis of this complex project and of the various influences at play are among the finest pages in the book . |
| 10 | Geometric designs gradually gave way to more curvilinear , Persian-style schemes during the period of Ottoman rule ( early 16th to late 18th centuries ) and some of these Ottoman Court carpets are among the finest examples of the period . |
| 11 | Business overdrafts from Midland are among the simplest ways of covering these short-term borrowing needs . |
| 12 | Birds of prey , which are among the keenest-sighted animals in the word , have two circular foveae in each eye as well as a strip . |
| 13 | Encircled by British , French and Italian territories , they were intensely proud of their age-old independence and very conscious that their forefathers had been among the earliest converts to Christianity . |
| 14 | financial services have long been among the heaviest users of search ; Michael Brookes at Nomura referred to 20 major assignments in less than three years with many more slightly lower-level searches . |
| 15 | Both men are American and have been among the best-paid executives of a British quoted company since the merger three years ago of SmithKline , an American drug company , and Beecham . |
| 16 | Similarly , after the implementation of the allowances , the Cooperative Women 's Guild , an organisation of working-class women within the Cooperative Movement which had originally been among the strongest supporters of the campaign for family allowances ( Lewis , 1980 ) , defeated a resolution calling for an increase in the amount of the allowance at their annual Congress in 1951 ( Gaffin and Thoms , 1983 , p. 161 ) . |
| 17 | Appendages in the ‘ head ’ region often include powerful claws , and it does not take much imagination to conclude that these eurypterids were among the fiercest predators of their day . |
| 18 | Employers ' organizations generally welcomed the package , whereas farmers were among the fiercest supporters of protectionism . |
| 19 | High Street stores including Marks & Spencer , Boots and Argos were among the best performers in trading on hopes that consumer spending is at last picking up . |
| 20 | An embarrassing historical fact for falsificationists is that if their methodology had been strictly adhered to by scientists then those theories generally regarded as being among the best examples of scientific theories would never have been developed because they would have been rejected in their infancy . |
| 21 | He is among the best directors in the world and among the most in demand . |
| 22 | This is among the best versions of this symphony , not perhaps quite as good as Blomstedt 's but very recommendable . |
| 23 | It had once been the great hall of the castle , and is among the fairest buildings of the twelfth century which Britain possesses . |
| 24 | The picture is among the finest examples of early English portraiture . |
| 25 | Kenya Asians are now working hard in the darkness and grime of British cities , where Patel is among the commonest names in the telephone directory . |
| 26 | With its small population , proven gas reserves of some 182 MTOE , and significant oil reserves , Brunei has the characteristics of a Middle Eastern oil state and in per capita income terms is among the richest nations on earth . |
| 27 | In another reversal of attitude , the Soviet delegation was among the strongest advocates of even tougher international action to protect human rights against government abuse . |