Example sentences of "among they the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of well-known and controversial incidents involving the security services — among them the Benjamin Greene affair , the Hess mission , and the Tyler Kent case — are either omitted altogether or merely mentioned in passing . |
| 2 | Many hearts were torn out that day , among them the Prince 's . |
| 3 | The visit to South Africa of several eminent Irish Rugby Football Union officers and their wives — among them the president , Ronnie Dawson — triggered off an acrimonious debate which looks likely to run on in spite of an IRFU statement regretting the safari . |
| 4 | And in the West , too , there is a roll-call of man-made horrors , among them the explosion at the Flixborough chemical works on Humberside and the dioxin release at Seveso ( Italy ) , which caused the poisoning of thousands of acres of farmland and the deaths of many more thousands of cattle . |
| 5 | Mr Suharto has been criticised for having too many Christians in his circle , among them the defence minister , some of his economic advisers and Chinese tycoons who control four-fifths of the country 's private industry . |
| 6 | Koons ' sculpture from this period — of vacuum cleaners encased in plexiglass , basketballs floating in aquariums , and a stainless-steel bunny — garnered a good deal of critical acclaim and important fans , among them the art dealer Mary Boone . |
| 7 | The first volume was clearly a success , attracting almost 600 subscribers , among them the Dukes of Bridgewater and Leeds , the Earls of Chesterfield , Arran , Gainsborough , Granville , and Pomfret , the Bishop of Gloucester , and many persons bearing lesser titles . |
| 8 | These people might indeed be said to have had a right to move once again centre stage , and so it is hardly surprising to find among them the great names of the first Napoleonic age . |
| 9 | When not used for special audiences this room served as a drawing room for the Empress 's ladies and was decorated with portraits of the ‘ friends ’ of the Empress , among them the Countess Walewska , the Duchess de Morny and the Countess de Noailles . |
| 10 | There were love stories — among them the lovely tale of how Rebekah 's father tricked Jacob into doing double time for his daughter . |
| 11 | Some others , though , among them the winner in Paris in two Sundays ' time , will be mysteriously gathering rather than losing strength . |
| 12 | I write as someone who 's always been able to take or leave Harrison Birtwistle 's music : the oeuvre as a whole arouses my respect , and impresses by its fiercely-defined character and self-consistency , but only a limited number of pieces ( among them The Triumph of Time , The fields of Sorrow , Melancolia I , Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum ) have spoken to me strongly and cried out for repeated listening . |
| 13 | Over the centuries a number of species have become extinct , among them the Mexican grizzly bear , great auk and passenger pigeon . |
| 14 | After several minutes he rose and walked to the shelf where he kept some personal books , among them the family bible , bearing the signature of his father and his grandfather and his great-grandfather . |
| 15 | Pawley and Syder provide a number of examples , among them the following : |
| 16 | The ornithologically-minded will be well content because , for some reason unknown to me , birds figure very largely in the names of present-day presses , among them the Cygnet , Four Ducks , Night Owl , Tern , Waddling Duck , Heron and Whippoorwill . |
| 17 | But that is not a view held by those who lack the imagination to enter into the hearts and minds of others , and to do to them as they would be done by ; among them the then Home Secretary and the then Lord Chief Justice . |
| 18 | BGS issues daily geomagnetic activity forecasts , making use of the most recent information on solar activity , and operates a real-time geomagnetic disturbance monitoring service for commercial customers , among them the European Space Agency , which has commissioned BGS to produce long- and short-term forecasts of solar and geomagnetic activity . |
| 19 | Between 1908 and 1948 several groups negotiated the needs of older people , among them the National Conference on Old Age Pensions ( NCOAP ) , the National Spinsters ' Pensions Association ( which played an important role in the reduction of women 's pension age from 65 to 60 ) , the National Federation of Old Age Pensions Associations ( NFOAPA ) , and the National Old People 's Welfare Committee , established by voluntary groups during the Second World War . |
| 20 | Among them are outstanding objects from the Olmec , Aztec and Maya civilisations including a turquoise Aztec mosaic mask in the form of two intertwined rattlesnakes , painted codices from pre-Hispanic times , among them the Codex Zouche , stone architectural fragments from Mayan sites and jades from the Olmec period . |
| 21 | Three of the twelve directors strongly opposed the plan ; among them the redoubtable Mr. Hurst . |
| 22 | Angry young Tamils had started their terrorist movements , among them the Tamil Tigers , and so the terrible cycle of destruction and retribution began . |
| 23 | Among them the Colom and the Caillau were the most conspicuous . |
| 24 | Baghoomian had been pursued by his creditors , among them the New York financing firm Rosenthal and Rosenthal , which had been a partner with Baghoomian in some lucrative secondary-market transactions . |
| 25 | While his clients have included dealers and museums , among them the British Museum , Patrick de Bayser says he is aiming mainly for a clientèle of private collectors . |
| 26 | The petition is supported by numerous international scholars of Ethiopia and Africa , among them the Russian historian of Axum , Yuri Kobischanov ; the British archaeologist , David Buxton ; the Italian historian of Ethiopia , Angelo Del Boca ; and the African historian Ali Mazuri . |
| 27 | So this wo n't displace those accounts listed above , nor indeed one or two others made in the studio , among them the underrated Janowitz/DG version ( I am pleased to see that is listed in the current Good CD Guide ) . |
| 28 | It is arguable that a decline in the traditional role of the military nobility in war was presaged by the ever-greater use made of artillery , that most ‘ un-noble ’ and indiscriminate causer of death , which claimed among its victims several great noblemen , among them the Bastard of Bourbon , killed at Soisson in 1414 ; Thomas , earl of Salisbury ( ‘ a worthi werrioure amonge all Cristen men … slayne at the sege of Orliaunce with a Gonne ’ , as the author of the Brut reported the event ) ; John Talbot , earl of Shrewsbury , killed at Castillon in July 1453 ; and Jacques de Lalaing , ‘ le bon chevalier ’ , killed in the very same month at the siege of Poeke , near Ghent . |
| 29 | And he used a great many books of specifically Nazarean orientation , among them the Acts of Thomas . |
| 30 | But other local families are likely to have served both lords , among them the Musgraves of Edenhall . |