Example sentences of "[vb past] among [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was some policemen from Cambridge County and they were handpicked , two brothers came among that little group , and they each weighed over twenty stone , these two brothers , and of course everybody referred to them , as the two tinies . |
| 2 | The present writer , brought up in a house containing unattractive thrillers of the Sapper era , discovered among that unillustrated and unilluminating Hodder & Stoughton material a correspondence-course crammer , an outline of plane geometry . |
| 3 | However , it seems unlikely that the political will existed among many rural authorities to embark upon a rapid and expensive programme of housing construction . |
| 4 | That is , by focusing on the superficial manifestations of culture , multiculturalism failed to address the continuing hierarchies of power and legitimacy that still existed among these different centres of cultural authority . |
| 5 | World market : The global market for solar energy is worth about $500 million , two-thirds of it shared among many tiny private companies . |
| 6 | But a very different response appeared among some bien pensant intellectuals . |
| 7 | She learned among many other things that Felicity had known Peter 's first wife quite well and admired her desperately as she struggled with her increasing disability and urged her husband to live as freely as he could . |