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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | However , he was among the English leaders who submitted to the Normans at Berkhamsted , and crowned William I at Westminster on Christmas day 1066 . |
| 12 | 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 . |