Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] among them " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because the widespread poverty of older women and the penury experienced by some groups among them derive to a considerable extent from the operation of social and economic policies within patriarchal capitalism , any major change in their status rests on the development of alternative policies . |
| 2 | Mind you there was some , there was some lads among them . |
| 3 | There 's little doubt the Commonwealth sees France as the main target of the mission , but as a mainly English speaking organization , its influence on President Mitterand may be limited so the French speakers among them will be pressed into service . |
| 4 | There are very few British names among them , but Ross Lovegrove is certainly one . |
| 5 | I am living here with Arab people in peace and I have some friends among them . |
| 6 | As for cardinals , after Kilwardby 's death in 1310 there were no more English bishops among them until Langham in 1368 and only four others — three Dominicans in this reign and Adam Easton later — before 1378 , compared with fourteen Italian and one hundred and twelve French cardinals . |
| 7 | We now know much more about surviving hunters and gatherers than was known in Morgan 's day and , although sexual unions among them may in some cases be very unstable , in others they are not . |
| 8 | Another group of critics , central bankers among them , point out that borrowing more at shorter rates may undermine the independence of the Federal Reserve . |
| 9 | The report did recommend that members be called upon to break off relations with Spain , but there were serious divisions among them about the efficacy of such measures . |
| 10 | Can we really assume that the birds and monkeys and also mantids are such wonderful observers ( or that some very clever ones among them are ) to notice a " remote " resemblance and be repelled by it ? |
| 11 | Very clever ones among them ? |
| 12 | By this period he was seriously addicted to the tranquillizer , nembutal , and there seem to have been a number of objects to which he attached his fears — lifts and large animals among them . |
| 13 | ‘ In those days when the number of disciples was increasing , the Grecian Jews among them complained against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food . |
| 14 | Although there are many points of divergence between " Creole " and " English " , there are also sufficient similarities for many people , linguists and native speakers among them , to refer to Creole as a variety of English . |
| 15 | Most of them were females , although there were a few of the giant males among them . |
| 16 | Rather , it contains a mixture of instances of all sorts , without any distinction between examples and other instances ; and the net discovers natural groupings among them . |
| 17 | ‘ Quite a few of our customers have dogs and there are some large ones among them , although most of the ones who come in here are small . |
| 18 | The widespread use of pesticides , notably insecticides , in modem farming has probably also affected the food supply available to birds as well as sometimes causing widespread deaths among them . |
| 19 | We see this at the birth of the church where ‘ all the believers were together ’ , ‘ all the believers were one in heart and mind … . ’ , ‘ they shared everything they had … . ’ , ‘ there were no needy persons among them … . ’ , ‘ and the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved ’ ( Acts 2:42–47 ; 4:32–35 ) . |
| 20 | I have six survivors from the yacht Delos aboard and had thought to put three of the innocent parties among them ashore but that seems a little pointless now . ’ |
| 21 | Although most ants are accomplished fighters and hunters , there are also many farmers among them . |
| 22 | The registers of Haymo de Hythe , record many items among them that of adultery which was severely dealt with and we find four couples named here in 1347 . |
| 23 | The higher death rate in women than in men is probably because of the higher proportion of elderly patients among them . |
| 24 | I made many friends among them . |
| 25 | Goldschmidt might rather have said : " Can we really assume that the birds , etc. are such poor observers ( or that some very stupid ones among them are ) ? " |
| 26 | Ten artists among them Dara Silverman , Kathleen McCarthy , Alan Belcher , John Lindell and Carrie Mae Weems have been asked to decorate sheets and pillow cases for the occasion . |
| 27 | But there are some profitable and growing businesses among them . |
| 28 | Each tutor is responsible for a broadly related group of fields and automatically receives all applications for any double fields among them . |
| 29 | The older ones among them who had heard similar harangues before had already sensed they were about to experience some harshening of their conditions . |
| 30 | The very large number of neurons ( around a million in the brain of Apis according to Witthoft , 1967 ) , and the multiplicity of possible connections among them means that the nervous pathways between and within the ganglia are extremely complicated . |