Example sentences of "that among " in BNC.

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1 His main conclusion , after long travels round the countryside , was that among the peasants ‘ there are no subscribers , no readers ’ .
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 Ellen Ross 's work has shown that among working-class Edwardians the marriage contract entailed a precise understanding of duties and obligations regarding maintenance ( on the part of the husband ) and household management ( on the part of the wife ) , but little by way of intimacy or romantic love . ’
4 This may be attributed to the fact that the city 's traders were not swamped by the growth of the larger British companies during the colonial period , that among the merchant families involved in the kola nut trade , two generations were common , and that merchant families in Kano were particularly successful from the early 1960s at forming links with overseas companies , not least with those from the Far East .
5 WHEN 20 representatives of the South African Cricket Union and the National Sports Congress sit down together in a Johannesburg hotel tonight it is to be hoped that among them is someone with the wisdom of Solomon .
6 ‘ The evidence of student organisers and the police is that among the marchers there were 2,000 or more members of militant groups who played a significant role in encouraging demonstrators to march towards Parliament and show aggression , ’ the report says .
7 There are , nevertheless , sufficient indications to suggest that attitudes towards the Jews hardened during the war , and that among those Party members and others who shared radical Nazi views on the ‘ Jewish Question ’ , Hitler 's pronouncements were welcomed as endorsement of the most ruthless destruction of the ‘ racial enemy ’ .
8 Interest increased when he revealed that among the types of RNA successfully attacked was RNA from the HIV virus which causes Aids .
9 One in 10 of last year 's 72,000 visitors was Japanese , so the trust has introduced information leaflets written in their native language in the expectation that among 87,000 visitors this year , at least 14 per cent will be from Japan .
10 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 .
11 Some idea of the standard can be gathered from the fact that among those in the ‘ B ’ final , and therefore not in the top 12 men , were two others from the eight and all the coxless four in Vienna last year , plus two other former medallists .
12 What I have tried to do here is to suggest , without wanting to be closely associated with Hick 's pseudo-ecumenical approach , that among many of the world 's religions there may be a common understanding of the divine nature .
13 Recall that among the possible reasons for a loss of conditioned responding with a change of context was the generalization decrement that might be expected when the event designated by the experimenter as the CS is presented in a different context .
14 There is some evidence to suggest that among the important determinants should be numbered the complexity of the stimuli ( Ellis and Muller 1964 ) , whether or not the stimuli look like recognizable objects ( Ellis , Muller , and Tosti 1966 ) , and the extent to which the labels match critical features of the stimuli ( Segal 1964 ) .
15 It is probably no accident that among the first organs that it attacks are the crab 's testicles or ovaries ; it spares the organs that the crab needs to survive — as opposed to reproduce — till later .
16 In his classic work Primitive Man as Philosopher , Paul Radin argues that among primitive men there exist two different types of temperament : the man of action who is oriented towards external objects , interested primarily in practical results and comparatively indifferent to the stirrings of his inner self , and the thinker — a much rarer type — who is impelled to analyse and ‘ explain ’ his subjective states .
17 The trouble was , of course , that among Henry 's sort of person , a rugby-playing surveyor , for example , or the kind of dentist like David Sprott who was n't afraid to get up on his hind legs at a social gathering and talk , seriously and at length , about teeth , he was considered something of a subversive .
18 Table 4.4 does not support overall the hypothesis that among those still living at home six months and 12 months after referral , the action samples would contain higher proportions of people suffering from a selection of ‘ home care disadvantages ’ .
19 So two different calculations are made ; the effect of being rich among the young is 0.433–0.391 , or +0.042 , and that among the old is 0.266–0.172 , or +0.094 .
20 To my mind the most powerful argument for having saints is that they are such a diverse bunch that among them will be at least one person that even the most eccentric believer can identify with .
21 Many secondary teachers know that among their most fulfilling experiences with children are the ‘ residential ’ , whether abroad , on a field trip or to an Outdoor Education Centre , and the extracurricular events , such as sport , music , theatre visits and drama .
22 It is however impossible to believe that among these — bearing in mind that each applicant had to be sponsored by some reputable person — there were , as some claimed , barbers , man-milliners , tailors , shoemakers , mercers , mutton pie men , rat catchers , razor-strop makers , razor grinders , a druggist 's porter , insolvent debtors , and in general , the out-at-elbow fraternity .
23 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 .
24 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 ) .
25 It is not generally known that among the sculptured panels at the top of the Library facade , there is one featuring two children fingerspelling at each other the first two letters of the alphabet .
26 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 .
27 It is very difficult to give any precise figures to illustrate or establish this ; but a rough count of the twelfth-century marriages noted in three volumes of the Complete Peerage reveals that among the English upper classes of the twelfth century it was much commoner for a lady to have two or more husbands than for a man to have two or more wives ; in the cases noted , almost twice as common ( 36 to 19 ) .
28 This does not mean that among those species not possessing Tursiops ’ style of sonar equipment , sonar is not of such importance to them .
29 But Jane Goodall and others have reported that among chimpanzees , the enemies of the morning will be playmates of the afternoon .
30 And whilst it is impossible to state categorically that heart disease can be caused by eating too much fat , in recent investigations it was observed that among the groups of people who consumed high amounts of fat the incidence of heart attack was far higher than among those who followed a low fat diet .
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