Example sentences of "[vb past] that among " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my message for World Communications Day last year , I mentioned that among the realities we celebrate on this annual occasion are the God-given gifts of speech , of hearing and of sight which make communication possible between us . |
| 2 | A MORI poll ( April 1989 ) for a BBC programme , Thatcher 's Children , found that among young voters ( 15 — 28 ) aspirations were distinctly bourgeois . |
| 3 | For example , Gallup found that among those who said they would ‘ definitely ’ vote the Tories ' lead was two points compared with half a point among all electors . |
| 4 | Malinowski , however , found that among the matrilineal Trobriand Islanders , where the mother 's brother , not the biological father , exercises authority over the child , the child feels hostility towards the maternal uncle , not the ‘ father ’ . |
| 5 | The particular importance of housing tenure has been noted already : Townsend found that among respondents renting council accommodation only 20 per cent rated themselves as middle class while among owner-occupiers 40 per cent did so . |
| 6 | In a 1963 survey , Butler and Stokes found that among those with a ‘ middle class ’ self-image and who also considered themselves partisans of the major parties 79 per cent were Tory and 21 per cent Labour supporters . |
| 7 | On checking through the Division list , I found that among the Members who sadly threw out that advanced piece of legislation were the right hon. Member for Norfolk , South ( Mr. MacGregor ) and other interesting names . |
| 8 | Martin et al found that among Helicobacter pylori positive patients ingestion of NSAIDs significantly increased the risk of gastric ulceration . |
| 9 | A MORI poll conducted in 1981 found that among skilled workers in the North of England , Labour had a 32% lead over the Conservatives . |
| 10 | Lohmuller et al reported that among 671 patients with chronic ulcerative colitis , if preoperative extraintestinal manifestations had been present , pouchitis occurred in 39% of cases , but in only 26% if no extraintestinal manifestations had been present . |
| 11 | She had sharp words for those men who believed time spent in women 's company was ‘ mis'employ 'd ’ but admitted that among the ‘ inferior sort ’ , ‘ the Condition of the two Sexes ’ was ‘ more level ’ than among their social superiors . |
| 12 | Interest increased when he revealed that among the types of RNA successfully attacked was RNA from the HIV virus which causes Aids . |
| 13 | When I visited Pucklechurch , the remand centre outside Bristol which was virtually destroyed during the riots , I noted that among the graffiti painted by prisoners during the riot there were slogans promising solidarity , not merely with Bristol and Strangeways prisoners as one might have expected , but also with protesters against the poll tax . |
| 14 | In the course of his research Alfred Kinsey noticed that among many mammals the speed of erection was swift to say the least . |
| 15 | A report on All-India Radio on Sept. 9 stated that among topics discussed by the two sides was co-operation in the fields of nuclear energy and oil exploration . |
| 16 | Imagine a book which claimed that among heterosexual patients in psychiatric hospitals each had low personal self-esteem . |
| 17 | There is evidence , for instance , that the idea of the supportive extended family is often a myth , and one Birmingham survey showed that among Asian people over a quarter had no close relatives in Britain . |
| 18 | Van de Vall ( 1970 ) showed that among Dutch unionists the most prevalent motive for taking up membership was to secure individual ‘ conflict insurance ’ ( i.e. the provision of legal and material assistance in possible disputes with the employer and protection against arbitrary management decisions ) . |
| 19 | Inglis ( 1965 ) summarised data which showed that among individuals with memory defects only the number of items recalled from the second ear differed from the number recalled by normal control subjects , whereas recall from the initial ear was similar for both groups . |
| 20 | The results of this experiment showed that among right handers , gaze direction was not related to question type when the interviewer faced the subject but was so related when the interviewer sat behind the subject . |
| 21 | In 1983 , the General Household Survey , which is the major source of data in this area , showed that among professional worker heads of household , 90 per cent were owner-occupiers , but only 28 per cent of unskilled workers were owner-occupiers ( General Household Survey 1983 , 1985 , Table 6.13 ) . |
| 22 | Margaret Fischl ( Miami , USA ) presented results from ACTG 155 which showed that among symptomatic patients ( CD4<300/L ) who had taken zidovudine for a median of 18–19 months , the combination of zidovudine and zalcitabine ( ddC ) was no better than either zidovudine or zalcitabine alone ( primary end points , first AIDS-defining event or death ; mean follow-up , 17 months ) . |
| 23 | He knew that among his people no respectable girl would expect anyone to marry her after that and that the parents would be only too glad for him to keep her . |
| 24 | It claimed that those detained ‘ have been involved in terrorism the use of violence , including murder , intimidation , arson and the use of explosives ’ and asserted that among them were persons who , but for the intimidation of witnesses , would have been charged with : |
| 25 | Last year Stan Gooch said that among the Chinese lefthandedness runs at 18 per cent whereas the figure for Westerners ( which we presume to mean Europeans ) is only 9 per cent ( Letters , vol 95 , p 258 ) . |
| 26 | The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland said that among restrictive provisions to be addressed , carry-forward facilities should be provided and ACT on FIDs should not be paid at all , otherwise it was simply an interest-free loan to Government . |
| 27 | They also recognized that among the major contributory causes of debt problems were accident , sickness , unemployment , divorce or marital difficulty , death or other change of family circumstances . |
| 28 | And when he suspected that among his askaris , there existed ‘ turned ’ terrorists whose hearts were not with their new masters , he showed no compunction in disposing of the ‘ problem ’ , favouring his tested method : ‘ drops , shot and burnt ’ , otherwise referred to in his absorbing unpublished testament as ‘ the usual manner ’ . |