Example sentences of "was among [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year Roger Hackney , the Olympic steeplechaser , took the top prize and Tim Hutchings was among the individual winners in the Christmas Day event at Ninove . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , there is a question mark about how widespread such knowledge was among the working classes . |
| 3 | Anchor Ford , which has 18 dealerships and is part of the nationwide Reg Varney group , was among the 61 dealers that signed up with Ford Credit last year . |
| 4 | Sabine was among the many girls of Irish descent who entered one of eight regional finals held in Guinness Irish pubs throughout Germany , all culminating in the national final held in the Irish Pub in Berlin 's Europa Centre . |
| 5 | The view that duties were being swamped by particular interests , each wallowing in an orgy of rights , was common among the Idealists , as it was among the New Liberals . |
| 6 | The importance that the Government place on this section is shown by the fact that it was among the first provisions of the 1989 Act to be brought into operation and the regulations made under it were among the first to be published . |
| 7 | Normalair-Garrett ( NGL ) at Crewkerne was among the first companies to introduce flexible manufacturing in the UK . |
| 8 | Wrexham Hospital had only that month installed one , after years of jumble sales and coffee mornings on its behalf , and Nigel was among the first patients to ( I nearly wrote ‘ benefit ’ ) be diagnosed by it . |
| 9 | Cannabis comes from hemp , which was among the first plants to be domesticated , especially in parts of South-East Asia , where it is a valuable source of fibre for making rope and twine . |
| 10 | It was among the first buildings in France to be listed as in need of help , even if none came for some fifteen years . |
| 11 | As the Association has affiliated to the Irish Congress of Trade Unions in recent months , the General Secretary of Congress , Mr. Peter Cassells was among the fraternal delegates and he received a warm welcome when he addressed the Conference . |
| 12 | Of the richest thirty-five countries in 1958 , all but six had the required level of primary education in 1920 ; vice versa , of the fifty countries that had not achieved the minimum level of primary education in 1920 , only one was among the developed countries in 1958 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | His brother , Scott , who was among the eight Scots named in the 30-strong squad , reckoned that Gavin 's previous experience of playing in New Zealand probably swayed the decision in the full-back 's favour . |
| 15 | He was permitted to take his family with him , but the only intellectual companionship he found was among the Catholic missionaries : the local inhabitants remained strangers to him . |
| 16 | For the last seventy-three years the Bishop of Durham was a scholar ; five bishops in succession ranging from one who was among the leading minds of Europe to one who was more a publicist than a scholar but who still had academic interests . |
| 17 | The wind gusted to 30 knots in the fourth race , and Heaven Can Wait , the British team 's 50-footer skippered by Harold Cudmore , was among the damaged boats . |
| 18 | He was among the last representatives of this kind of Anglo-French noble before the Hundred Years War , and the peace that subsisted between 1303 and 1324 enabled him to remain loyal to both his overlords . |
| 19 | William Armstrong of Kinmont , a celebrated reiver or raider , was among the Scottish representatives at a meeting at Kershopefoot in Liddesdale , where the English frontier runs down the middle of the Kershope burn to its junction with the Liddel Water , and then south down the Liddel . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | However , he was among the English leaders who submitted to the Normans at Berkhamsted , and crowned William I at Westminster on Christmas day 1066 . |
| 22 | And the North-East was among the worst-hit areas . |
| 23 | Saatchi & Saatchi was among the hidden persuaders and such niche retailers as Next and the Body Shop made looking and feeling good availiable to all . |