Example sentences of "be [adj] [that] among " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is clear that among the more prosperous merchants in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries there was the first beginning of a tendency towards specialization , in types of goods carried and markets exploited ; but growing trade , freer movements of peoples , no doubt enhanced the number of folk who could earn a few pennies peddling or carting . |
| 2 | But it is interesting that among the ‘ great issues of today and tomorrow ’ that he himself wrote as an agenda for Labour , prominence is given to one on equality : ‘ whether , as we grow richer , this new wealth is used exclusively for individual selfishness or for the growth of necessary community services , and whether , in consequence , we follow or escape the American precedent of great private affluence surrounding rotting public services ’ . |
| 3 | It is likely that among the rural population this loss was more widely distributed than was the gain . |
| 4 | Some work was probably done in the quarries on Paros , and it is likely that among the executants were islanders , used to carving marble ; there is next to no marble sculpture from Olympia before this . |
| 5 | It is true that among intellectuals , influenced by the cosmopolitanism of the Enlightenment , there was a fairly general feeling that war was unworthy of an age in which reason was taking control of human affairs . |
| 6 | In both cases , however , it was clear that among those respondents who thought in terms of ‘ class ’ the most common designations were ‘ working ’ and ‘ middle ’ . |
| 7 | The respect the government accorded them was correspondingly limited : it was significant that among the great civil reforms of the reign that of urban government should have been left until last , and that when enacted it should have concentrated power in the hands of a very narrow élite . |