Example sentences of "[prep] among [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He and James should have broached it early on , devised sanctions ( the withholding of rents ; the blocking of highways and sieging of the big houses ) , called for practical suggestions from among the crowds — all that tradesmen 's and farmers ' skill and nous and energy , coalesced for a moment into a great ball of force , then left to collapse under its own weight , to crumble again into its thousands of separated grains … |
| 2 | The boats were sparkling with the glitter of the ‘ caller ou , ’ as our fishwives call them ; and busily the men were throwing them out from among the nets into the creels , while the shore was lined by brawny-armed women clothed in waterproof aprons , who with marvellous rapidity were gutting the fish , and packing them in barrels with abundance of salt between each layer . |
| 3 | Golden eyes looked at him from among the leaves of the yellow maple tree where Peach sat cleverly camouflaged . |
| 4 | There were slivers of glass sparkling up at them from among the brambles . |
| 5 | They were to be elected by peasants from among the ranks of the gentry in order to defend peasant interests in the wake of the emancipation . |
| 6 | By the thirteenth century these officers were elected in the county court from among the knights who resided in the neighbourhood of the forest and held land within it ; they took an oath in the county court or in the attachment court faithfully to perform the duties of their office . |
| 7 | The judge was chosen from among the judges of King 's Bench , Common Pleas or Exchequer . |
| 8 | From among the papers he extracted a chequebook and , drawing his chair close to the tea-chest , he rested the chequebook on it , took out his fountain pen and looked up at Denis . |
| 9 | In spite of this handful of ‘ collaborators ’ , it was nevertheless inevitable that the majority of those serving in the Imperial household should be drawn from among the families which had been connected with the First Empire . |
| 10 | This latter group of people will inevitably form the great majority , and it is mainly they who will provide the justification for the establishment of a clergy for the ‘ Alternative Religion ’ , and it is they who will prefer to put their faith in carefully chosen leaders , possibly elected from among the others , and on whom they can call for guidance . |
| 11 | The potential for change is therefore always present in variation , and may appear as a progressively greater or lesser favouring by the speech community of particular linguistic variants from among the variants that are available in the community at some particular time : to that extent change can be said to consist of change in community norms . |
| 12 | publish a series of case studies culled from among the members of the network ; |
| 13 | Organization : There is a Committee of Ministers ( consisting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of all member states ) which decides with binding effect all matters of internal organization , makes recommendations to governments and may also draw up conventions and agreements ; a Parliamentary Assembly of 170 members who are elected or appointed by their national parliaments from among the members thereof to speak for public opinion , not to represent their governments ; and a Secretariat , the current Secretary-General being Catherine Lalumiere ( since May 1989-ibid . ) . |
| 14 | The President , currently Quett K. J. Masire , appoints a Vice-President from among the members of the National Assembly ( legislature ) , and the Cabinet , over which he presides . |
| 15 | In May 1984 a new National Assembly was established , composed of 150 members elected from among the members of eight directly elected regional councils ; the Assembly was re-elected in June 1989 following approval by the voters of the PAIGC 's list of candidates for the regional councils . |
| 16 | The President appoints the Prime Minister and Cabinet from among the members of the unicameral House of Assembly , which is composed of 21 elected representatives and nine appointed senators and sits for five years . |
| 17 | It also established a 150-member National Assembly elected from among the members of eight directly elected regional councils . |
| 18 | The President appoints the Prime Minister and Cabinet from among the members of the unicameral House of Assembly , which is composed of 21 elected representatives and nine appointed senators , and has a five-year term . |
| 19 | The head of state is the Beretitenti ( President ) who is popularly elected from among the members of the Assembly ; he governs with the assistance of an appointed Cabinet and is empowered to dissolve the Assembly and to call a general election . |
| 20 | As far as the police part of the Bill is concerned , the er Government er under considerable pressure from erm er er members on their own side er as well as from these benches , have made the er very welcome concession that the chairman of a police authority shall no longer be appointed er by the Secretary of State , by the Home Secretary , but elected from among the members of the police authority er they have also made provision that the er er er i in response to the er criticisms that were made at second reading that the size of the p of a police authority shall no longer be limited to er sixteen members but could er by er order of the Secretary of State be extended to er twenty er er er twenty-four members . |
| 21 | ‘ Do n't say a word ! ’ cried a terrible voice , as a man jumped up from among the graves and caught hold of me . |
| 22 | This tale about Swegen 's Slavonic wife may fit with Thietmar 's statement that he had Cnut and his brother Harald by a sister of Boleslav whom he later abandoned , which may in turn tie in with the Encomiast 's story that after their father 's death Cnut and Harald brought their mother back from among the Slavs . |
| 23 | The Encomiast alleges that Swegen Forkbeard took his elder son Cnut on the conquest of England , leaving Harald , the younger , in Denmark , and that after Swegen 's death Cnut returned and asked Harald to divide it between them , while offering him the eventual choice of Denmark or England if he would assist in subjugating the latter ; but Harald refused both requests and , after jointly bringing their mother back from among the Slavs , Cnut sailed for England alone . |
| 24 | Appoint a systems manager from among the secretaries as a central point of contact between the firm and the supplier . |
| 25 | The officials want and respect a minister who can pick up a problem quickly , select from among the alternatives the line most in accord with the outlook of his Cabinet colleagues and his party , who is courageous and can win any necessary battles with other departments outside or inside the Cabinet , and who can explain the policy well in public . |
| 26 | As soon as he had gained control , Sandys brought about another change in the Virginia Company 's way of running things ; he told the Company 's governor in the colony to have an assembly elected from among the colonists to give him advice and to act as the legislative body to pass any local laws needed inside the colony . |
| 27 | He is chosen from among the Princes of Ulthuan on the death of the previous Phoenix King and crowned at the massive pyramid Shrine of Asuryan located on an island in the Sea of Dreams , outside the borders of any of the kingdoms . |
| 28 | Governors were almost always sent out from England rather than chosen from among the men on the spot . |
| 29 | If the Soviet state machine , the process of production and the producers , are directed by the party-state nomenklatura officials , who recruit by co-option from among the beneficiaries of higher education , and who in various ways benefit from privilege , it follows that this ruling stratum has some of the characteristics of a ruling class , though not that of ownership , except possibly in some collective sense . |
| 30 | To begin with we used what paper , pens and pencils we could put together from our hand luggage and from among the belongings left in the house that we had been bundled into . |