Example sentences of "[was/were] among the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The stores and building sectors were among the hardest hit as traders anticipated a continuing squeeze in the high street and on house prices . |
| 4 | Overall oils were among the best performing shares with the sector 's defensive qualities in the present uncertain atmosphere drawing support . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | William Temple and Fisher at Repton were among the late manifestations of this feeling . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | There were about 25 cocktail parties to launch Balbirnie , and employees from other hotels in the region were among the guests . |
| 11 | Granger , these full-blooded pictures were among the most popular films released in the latter stages of the war . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ Vzglyad ’ and ‘ TSN ’ were singled out because they were among the few television programmes willing to challenge Mr Kravchenko . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | ( It is useful to understand here that in the ancient middle east pearls were among the most precious of gems and were highly esteemed as personal ornaments . |
| 23 | The great pre-war estates were among the largest in Europe . |
| 24 | The company were among the first , post-war , to use front-wheel drive for larger cars . |
| 25 | Mr Robin Cook , Labour 's health spokesman — who called for an early contest — and Mr Donald Dewar , Scottish spokesman , were among the first senior party figures publicly to throw their weight behind the Shadow Chancellor 's campaign . |
| 26 | The Iranian Interior Ministry said that 29 members of the Association of Combatant Clergy which , despite its harsh-sounding name , is linked to President Rafsanjani 's cautious opening to the West , were among the 30 highest scoring candidates in Teheran , the largest constituency . |
| 27 | Lord Petre 's stoves were among the largest in the world and their produce was unrivalled as Collinson continued : |
| 28 | Guyton de Morveau and L. J. Thénard were among the unsung heroes of 19th century painting . |
| 29 | The following were among the names in the new year honours list : |
| 30 | Not surprisingly they were among the first fossils to attract widespread attention . |