Example sentences of "that among " in BNC.
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| 31 | If you are a shop assistant who frequently deputizes for the manager of a busy store you may need some prompting to realize that among your qualifications you ‘ are ready to take responsibility ’ , ‘ have a flexible approach to work ’ , and ‘ are used to dealing with the public ’ . |
| 32 | It says much for the tolerance and humanity of the family that among the guests was a group of German POWs . |
| 33 | In the course of his research Alfred Kinsey noticed that among many mammals the speed of erection was swift to say the least . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | A single 30-ton sauropod corpse would have lasted Tyrannosaurus for three years , leading the Halsteads to surmise that among other anatomical reasons T. Rex was a slow-moving scavenger , incapable of moving faster than 2 mph ( 4 kph ) . |
| 36 | The Anti-Counterfeiting Group , a pressure group whose members include some of the major companies suffering at the hands of the fakers , estimates that among those suffering the most are the motorparts industry which loses about £100 million a year ; perfume companies which lose £35 million ; drug companies which lose £25 million ; and the Swiss watch industry which loses £5 million . |
| 37 | 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 ’ . |
| 38 | Imagine a book which claimed that among heterosexual patients in psychiatric hospitals each had low personal self-esteem . |
| 39 | It is likely that among the rural population this loss was more widely distributed than was the gain . |
| 40 | 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 : |
| 41 | Towards the end of the era , in fact , the attendants in the salons of homage became alert to the fact that among their few Western visitors , the majority were not as in awe of the Conducator as they might be and photographing the exhibits or taking notes of the sycophantic citations attached to the awards by their Western donors was discouraged . |
| 42 | Taking this factor into account suggests that among potential users — that is , among those applying comments fairly freely to each credit type perhaps around one in ten think shop accounts , trading checks , credit cards and HP would be difficult to arrange . |
| 43 | But in these papers it is stated that Tyndale headed his written defence , ‘ Faith alone justifies before God ’ , and that among the questions debated were worship of saints , the Sacraments and the authority of the Pope . |
| 44 | Add to this the fact that among mountain goats most of the winter mortality falls on the youngest animals and it is not hard to see why there are few surplus goats for the hunter 's guns . |
| 45 | What is the logic of the expression ‘ that among various other sensations or feelings ’ in Mill 's sentence , and of ‘ that sensation ’ in mine ? |
| 46 | Of course , on any theory , the ceremony by which he had been invested conformed to no canonical rules of election or investiture , and it is astonishing — or rather , it would be astonishing in anyone with even a rudimentary knowledge of Canon Law — that among all his other objections , Anselm never mentioned the defective procedure as a reason for refusing the office . |
| 47 | The use of the plural is pregnant with implications that evidence she alone has seen shows that among Sotheby 's staff not just Peter Wilson had a share in the treasure . |
| 48 | 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 ) . |
| 49 | He confirmed the view that among perfectly ordinary people , who were neither Pharaohs nor priests , full brother-sister marriages occurred in a minimum of nine out of the 113 marriages he analysed , If the less certain cases are also included along with marriages between half-siblings , the proportion of incestuous marriages was of the order of 20% . |
| 50 | As an example of this interconnection Althusser points out that among the relations of production of capitalist societies are the buying and selling of labour power by capitalists and workers . |
| 51 | Speaking at the company 's developers conference , Apple Computer Inc chairman John Sculley said he expects the company 's strong momentum to continue into the second half of the fiscal year , adding that among new products on the stocks are the speech recognition computer system code-named Caspar and the pen-based portable notebook . |
| 52 | Peter Chang , of the government 's Council for Economic Planning and Development , points out that among countries with more than 10m people , Taiwan 's population density ranks second only to Bangladesh 's . |
| 53 | Thus although news executives continued to value ‘ scoops ’ , Tunstall found in the 1970s that among journalists themselves , it was more important not to come last with the news than to be first with it ( Tunstall , 1971 ) . |
| 54 | We conclude that among intravenous drug misusers seroconversion for HIV is significantly associated with bacterial pneumonia . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | Professor H.T. Norris of London University , author of Islam in the Balkans ( in the press ) , says that among them were some very fine calligraphic manuscripts and beautifully illuminated Jewish haggadahs . |
| 57 | 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 ’ . |
| 58 | 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 ’ . |
| 59 | Scott 's research show that among the top 250 British enterprises in 1976 , 43 were controlled by personal shareholders , 71 by corporate owners , and 110 by a mixture ( Scott , 1985 , p. 77 ) . |
| 60 | Recent research has found that among the top 250 British firms , 77 have six or more interlocks to other organisations , while 112 have one to five interlocks . |