Example sentences of "that [verb] [adv] among " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not so easy to change the playmates when they are brothers and/or sisters ( siblings ) , and many parents tell me of their concern about the seemingly incessant feuding that goes on among brothers and sisters . |
| 2 | In the seemingly endless , and to male ears repetitive , chatter that goes on among women … a massive and encyclopaedic confidence is built up in the gossipers … gossip serves exactly the same grooming functions for the women as poker for the men … |
| 3 | In much of Castile minifundia were created by inheritance laws that divided equally among children , whereas in the Basque Provinces and Catalonia the family farm remained as a unit for generations . |
| 4 | Monogamy also leads to marriages being part of property deals among the ruling classes since marriage becomes part of the process of securing heirs to private property , and once marriage is seen as a matter of passing on property , it rapidly takes on that form exclusively among the propertied classes . |
| 5 | Here and there the limestone that cropped out among the heather and rough grass on the ridge above broke through the grass and mould in stony patches , fretted away occasionally into small scattered boulders , bedded into the turf and moss . |
| 6 | The result was a white cross that stood out among the familiar neon logos of airlines and oil companies . |