Example sentences of "[noun sg] was among the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A child in the car was among the injured . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And the North-East was among the worst-hit areas . |
| 4 | Ken sent a pastoral letter to his clergy asking them to collect money for their relief , and , though his stipend was among the lowest of those of the English bishops , himself contributed £4000 . |
| 5 | ONE of the youngest potential victims of Chester 's tuberculosis scare was among the first to be tested for the disease yesterday . |
| 6 | ‘ We admit there was a time when the North-East service was among the worst in the country in terms of reliability but we have had a massive turnaround of fortune . ’ |
| 7 | Virgin retail was among the top three record-shop chains in Britain , with shops in almost every major town and plans to develop a new concept in record retailing , a ‘ megastore ’ , in Oxford Street , close by the site of the first ever Virgin shop . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , there is a question mark about how widespread such knowledge was among the working classes . |
| 9 | The North Thameside petroleum traffic was among the first to have its own train crew and dedicated fleet of locomotives . |
| 10 | An unnamed Briton was among the dead when the plane went down on November 14 . |
| 11 | In the 1860s Gaskell , Deacon & Co. was among the largest and most successful chemical works in Widnes , owing to Gaskell 's commercial management and Deacon 's method of recovering chlorine for bleaching-powder manufacture . |
| 12 | His verdict on low-alcohol and alcohol-free beer was among the politest gleaned by a vox-pop of South London drinkers . |
| 13 | Man was among the last of a wide range of Eurasian mammals to trek overland through the forests and tundra of Beringia , now the Bering Strait region , during the late Pliocene and Pleistocene . |
| 14 | Among the main tropical diseases leishmaniasis was among the fastest-spreading parasite-inflicted infection , in 1990 , affecting 12,000,000 people in 80 countries ; there were 200 million people suffering from bilharzia and over 2,000 million exposed to the risk of malaria . |
| 15 | For the Australian army was among the first , if not the first , Allied service taking up the commando idea , even though they already had nearly four divisions overseas . |
| 16 | Scotmid was among the first in the field to introduce bar-code readers to their store checkouts , and the use of computer stocktaking brings them soundly into the 1990s . |
| 17 | His report says : ’ Inmate accommodation was among the worst we had seen ’ in his report on the prison . |
| 18 | The highest support for taking measures to protect the landscape was among the 35–44 age group , where 80 per cent were in favour . |
| 19 | The highest support for taking measures to protect the landscape was among the 35–44 age group , where 80 per cent were in favour . |
| 20 | During the Tang period , when trade between the Persian Gulf , East Africa , India and the Chinese coast was conducted by Arab sea-farers , rhinoceros horn was among the chief imports to Canton.22 Even larger supplies became available as the Chinese entered into direct trade with ports on the coast of east Africa . |
| 21 | The dead were named last night as Mr Paul Gordon Butt , 29 , a securities dealer , Mr Thomas Casey , 49 , a door keeper , and Danielle Carter , 15 , whose eight-year-old sister was among the injured . |
| 22 | Other than in Ipswich , where the WEA branch was among the small group of vigorous , active and well-organised centres in the District , there appeared to be little prospect for development without LEA-funded support in the pre-war years and , as in West Suffolk , the development of a substantial WEA presence did not occur until after the 1939–45 war . |
| 23 | Your mother was among the first batch of evacuees , too , like Lilian . |
| 24 | Markovic 's new party was among the first to take advantage of the passage by the Federal Chamber of Yugoslavia 's Federal Assembly on July 25 of a law allowing the formation of political parties " of a general Yugoslav character " . |