Example sentences of "[was/were] among [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of countries which were suspected ( principally by the USA and other Western countries ) of developing chemical weapons-including Libya , Iraq and Syria-were among a total of 22 countries taking part for the first time in the committee 's deliberations since the opening of the spring session , albeit as observers . |
| 2 | Apart from Nicholson , Peter Fonda , Peter Bogdanovich , Francis Ford Coppola , Stephen Spielberg , Bob Rafelson , Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro were among a long cast list of now famous names who found a toe-hold in Hollywood by working with him . |
| 3 | THOUSANDS of British holiday-makers were among a million people who fled Hurricane Andrew yesterday . |
| 4 | His grace together with his wife Lady Powis and the Member of Parliament for Montgomeryshire Alex Carlisle were among a large group of guests who gathered in Welshpool to see the official opening of the ‘ new ’ Raven Square station buildings . |
| 5 | They were among a few people who came back to see over the property again quite a few times , and I met their sons . |
| 6 | They were among a host of stars who donned working aprons to raise cash for the AIDS charity , the Terrence Higgins Trust . |
| 7 | The ongoing Middle East peace negotiations were among a number of topics Shaki discussed with high-ranking Egyptian officials . |
| 8 | The Reverend Bert Jones , a minister in the United Reformed CHurch , and Miles Cooper were among a dozen hunt saboteurs who witnessed the scene and were invoved in a skirmish afterwards . |
| 9 | Dock workers , pensioners and residents were among a 50-strong group who lobbied Gladstone Dock in Seaforth , Sefton . |
| 10 | DALGETY , Delta and Jaguar were among the shares to march ahead yesterday as the stock market continued to fret and fuss about today 's West German interest rate decision . |
| 11 | The US was yesterday sheltering on its bases at least two participants in the coup attempt who were among the few to escape death or capture . |
| 12 | The stores and building sectors were among the hardest hit as traders anticipated a continuing squeeze in the high street and on house prices . |
| 13 | Overall oils were among the best performing shares with the sector 's defensive qualities in the present uncertain atmosphere drawing support . |
| 14 | THE 24 HOURS preceding President George Bush 's stop in New York last night on behalf of Rudolph Giuliani , the Republican candidate for mayor , were among the bloodiest the city has seen . |
| 15 | Dances , buffet suppers , flower festivals , supper shows , poetry reading , craft shows , sales stands , aircraft model making and flying , car treasure hunts , boat cruises and sponsored sports events of many types were among the fund-raising efforts reported . |
| 16 | William Temple and Fisher at Repton were among the late manifestations of this feeling . |
| 17 | By such standards both footballers and cricketers , provided they were among the minority who avoided injury and played in the first team , were quite well off for a few years . |
| 18 | Boar 's head and jugged hare were among the contemporary dishes served in front of the company 's original 18th-century shop front in Cornhill , which now stands in the museum . |
| 19 | There were about 25 cocktail parties to launch Balbirnie , and employees from other hotels in the region were among the guests . |
| 20 | Granger , these full-blooded pictures were among the most popular films released in the latter stages of the war . |
| 21 | ‘ Down with the KGB ’ and ‘ Down with Ligachev ’ ( Yegor Ligachev , the conservatives ' leader on the party 's politburo ) were among the milder slogans carried by the demonstrators . |
| 22 | The blip in the graph occurs at a crucial stage of development in firms which until that point were among the fast growers , sharply reducing the number which move on to become medium and larger firms . |
| 23 | Although not all the Tory dissidents now discussing tactics over individual bills were among the 60 who withheld their votes from her last Tuesday , the arithmetic of the leadership election does raise the question of whether she can rely on her Commons majority in the coming battles . |
| 24 | Two ambulancemen , Mr Alan Woods and Mr Rob Lloyd of Putney Ambulance Station , who were among the first to arrive at the scene of the disaster a year ago , watched the morning trains speed by . |
| 25 | There are women miners here who were among the first to be laid off when Pittston sacked 4,000 of its 6,000 unionised miners in the early Eighties . |
| 26 | A little out of it is the Gate House , built in the local Surrey style by Hugh Baillie Scott , for a refined and progressive family who were among the new wave of Surrey homesteaders brought here by suburban railways , and hence having the possibility of commuting . |
| 27 | ‘ Vzglyad ’ and ‘ TSN ’ were singled out because they were among the few television programmes willing to challenge Mr Kravchenko . |
| 28 | British nurses were among the best trained in Europe but — thanks to the restrictive practices of the medical profession — were given the most limited responsibilities . |
| 29 | They had blue-chip credit standing , and were among the few counterparties with plenty of fixed-rate interest payments to swap for floating-rate ones . |
| 30 | ‘ Axioms ’ or ‘ maxims ’ , such as that wholes equal the sum of their parts , were among the premisses of the demonstrative syllogisms of the doctrine of scientia , and some seventeenth-century developments of the doctrine said that they were innate . |