Example sentences of "was [vb pp] among [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McKay was joined among the qualifiers by another West of Scotland girl , Janice Moodie . |
| 2 | A further 4,000 acres were allotted to commoners and the poor to compensate them for their loss of common rights , but since this was the poorest — indeed it was worthless — land , violent opposition was aroused among the commoners . |
| 3 | On the Copernican model , the earth was placed among the planets . |
| 4 | The skull was placed among the bones of Arak , and through the heat and the smoke Tallis watched the watching eyes , three cold people from an ancient day , remembering and honouring the dead . |
| 5 | Emphasis on analogies and external characters led to the splitting up of the marsupials , so that the thylacine was placed among the dogs despite its extraordinary reproductive system . |
| 6 | It was demonstrated by the fact that even after her death Sharon Tate was listed among the enemies of one extreme group , along with Lyndon Johnson , Richard Nixon , Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago and the Governor of California , Ronald Reagan who had just instructed his forces of law and order to ‘ take whatever action necessary ’ to quell campus riots . |
| 7 | In my childhood encyclopaedia it was listed among the marvels of the world , along with the Taj Mahal and Everest . |
| 8 | He wrote ‘ Michael Ramsey 's Monthly Message ’ for the Cambridgeshire Liberal Magazine , which thereafter was scattered among the villagers . |
| 9 | There is no evidence , for example , that Eadwine 's influence was felt among the Britons of Dumnonia , on the one hand , or of Strathclyde , on the other . |
| 10 | On Oct. 3 a further reshuffle was made among the ministers of state and a new minister , Abdul Malek , sworn in as Minister of Textiles . |
| 11 | There was a brief respite in the 1930s , after a banned copy of " Ulysses " was found among the papers of a deceased Lord Chanceller . |
| 12 | He could have been anybody , one of the hundreds of saints ; but , later , Annabel informed her that he was known among the girls as Mr Billy Brown . |
| 13 | The cat was set among the pigeons in 1952 when , von Neumann notwithstanding , David Bohm constructed a specific example of a hidden variable theory which did agree precisely with conventional quantum mechanics in all its empirical predictions . |
| 14 | In 1902 Humphrys began his career in the Indian Political Service , much of which was spent among the tribes of the North-West Frontier province . |
| 15 | Perhaps for this reason it was rumoured among the boys that he was a millionaire . |
| 16 | Few visible signs of such domestic industries remain , but the fine octagonal market house on the village green at Harrold is where work was distributed among the lace-makers , and where they brought the finished lace to be paid for by the employers . |
| 17 | Where among the fathers there had been one representative each of gamekeeper , watchman , pilot , none of these trades was represented among the husbands : instead there were one each of policeman , teacher , minister of religion , prison warder and two farmers : occupations entirely absent from the list of fathers . |
| 18 | The man 's body was discovered among the remains of a burnt out cottage . |
| 19 | The man 's body was discovered among the remains of a burnt out cottage . |
| 20 | The lower jaw was embedded among the ribs and the whole remains occupied a space of 95 cm in length and about 16 cm in depth . |
| 21 | A much more compact intrusion from Inner Asia was achieved , between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries AD , by the Yakuts with their Turkic language , whose culturally isolated community , based upon cattle and horse-breeding , was established among the Tungus on the middle Lena . |
| 22 | We have evidence that booty was divided among the troops as a fairly regular method of reward ; during the conquest of the Avars , there was even sufficient loot to send gifts to distant Mercia in England . |
| 23 | The income of the lands was divided among the canons of the minster , and they built their respective manors to the north and south of the church . |