Example sentences of "[noun] were among the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boar 's head and jugged hare were among the contemporary dishes served in front of the company 's original 18th-century shop front in Cornhill , which now stands in the museum . |
| 2 | Military personnel were constitutionally debarred from voting , but members of the armed forces belonging to Golkar were among the 500 additional appointees to make up the 1,000-member Majelis Permusyawaratan Rakyat ( People 's Consultative Assembly ) , which would elect the President and Vice-President in March 1993 . |
| 3 | Unbreakable cups and space shuttles were among the uses of new engineering materials cited by an enthusiastic Dr Ian McColm ( Bradford ) at the NE Region Education Division ( NERED ) teacher 's conference at Sheffield Polytechnic in November . |
| 4 | Staff at other travel firms were stunned as they heard clients were among the dead . |
| 5 | About 10 foreigners were among the victims of political violence in 1989 , with the result that foreign aid workers , archaeologists and tourists increasingly withdrew from or avoided rural areas . |
| 6 | It remained the main route from the south to Aberdeen until 1800 and Samuel Johnson , Robert Burns and Walter Scott were among the travellers who used the route . |
| 7 | According to Hecataeus , the Jews were among the people — including the illustrious Danaus and Cadmus — who had been expelled by the Egyptians during a pestilence . |
| 8 | Utilities were among the more buoyant sectors , helped by the search by pensions funds for higher-income investments to compensate for the five-point drop in their investment returns as a result of the Budget changes . |
| 9 | Christopher Biggins , Lorraine Chase , Lord Owen , Oz Clarke , Delia Smith and Bruce Oldfield were among the glitterati . |
| 10 | LIVERPOOL and Arsenal were among the disappointed clubs yesterday when Andy Awford signed a new contract at Portsmouth . |
| 11 | Granger , these full-blooded pictures were among the most popular films released in the latter stages of the war . |
| 12 | Body and mind were among the contraries to be reconciled , and the true union of opposites was always preceded by bitter conflict . |
| 13 | Two patients bled before surgery could be carried out and two further subjects were among the three who declined surgery . |
| 14 | King Æthelstan , whose lordship over various Welsh princes is implied by their witnessing of his charters , also invaded Scotland in 934 , and the Scots were among the enemies he defeated at Brunanburh three years later . |
| 15 | The stores and building sectors were among the hardest hit as traders anticipated a continuing squeeze in the high street and on house prices . |
| 16 | ( It is useful to understand here that in the ancient middle east pearls were among the most precious of gems and were highly esteemed as personal ornaments . |
| 17 | The movement 's unofficial leader , Akilisi Pohive , and his ally , Laki Niu , were among the four commoners re-elected to the Legislative Assembly , and their supporters were among the five new members elected to the nine seats reserved for commoners . |
| 18 | Shells were among the first substances to be held in high regard despite being of very limited use for practical purposes . |
| 19 | MP Simon Burns and Chelmsford Mayor Edgar Roberts were among the dignitaries who attended Under Pressure 's official opening yesterday afternoon . |
| 20 | A major industry initiative was launched by the HCIMA at its annual lunch last month when several operating companies and educational institutes , including Compass , Forte , Copthorne Hotels , Universities of Brighton and Surrey and Chichester College were among the first signatories of a new Charter agreement which will strengthen employer/education links within the industry . |
| 21 | Given the certainty that freebooters were among the raiding armies , it is clearly possible that the contingents contributed by Swegen and Cnut were wholly or partly comprised of such men too , rather than exclusively of Danish levies . |
| 22 | The vital role ( which contemporaries fully appreciated ) played by such relatively small ports as Le Crotoy , at the mouth of the river Somme , in the period 1420–50 , together with the fact that the ports of Dieppe and Harfleur were among the first places to be snatched from English control in 1435 ( leaving them with Cherbourg as the only port from which they could maintain regular links with England between 1435 and 1440 , a vital period in the military history of the occupation ) , shows how important the Burgundian connection was to both main protagonists as they struggled to acquire and maintain a measure of control over the sea . |
| 23 | Furthermore , their ascendancy accompanied the severest phase of the recession , which gave them the added incentive to try something different as some of their own areas were among the hardest hit . |
| 24 | Many observers from national radio societies were attached to official delegations and , according to the W5Y1 Report , more than 100 radio amateurs from about 40 countries were among the delegates , clearly demonstrating how an early interest in amateur radio can lead to success in a telecommunications career . |
| 25 | Both countries were among the non-permanent membership of the Council , which sits for two years , the others for that particular two-year period being Canada , Colombia , the Ivory Coast , Ethiopia , Finland , Malaysia , Romania and Zaire . |
| 26 | Its wharves were among the few where steam vessels outnumbered sailing ships at that time . |
| 27 | He was , however , very much an all-rounder , and football and curling were among the other sports he covered . |
| 28 | UK and French publishers and representatives of the British Council were among the 120 guests . |
| 29 | For it must be admitted that the courageous citizens of Phocaea were among the most consistently self-righteous colonizers of the Greek commonwealth . |
| 30 | Although not all the Tory dissidents now discussing tactics over individual bills were among the 60 who withheld their votes from her last Tuesday , the arithmetic of the leadership election does raise the question of whether she can rely on her Commons majority in the coming battles . |