Example sentences of "among the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both the Borough and Health Authority have supported the work of ACET in Ealing by being among the first to provide financial support . |
| 2 | Among the possible prisoners of conscience are 37 people sentenced to up to 20 years ' imprisonment for their involvement in a peaceful flag-raising ceremony in the town of Jayapura on 14 December 1988 . |
| 3 | Among the hundreds of those held without charge or trial in Syria are the following who have appeared in the Letter Writing Campaign : Hakem Sultan al-Faiz , a 61-year-old Jordanian national and former member of the National Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'th Party , who has been held for almost 20 years ; Ahmad ‘ Abd al-Rau'uf Roummou , a 55-year-old teacher , arrested in 1975 ; Muhammad Nabil Salem , an engineer , arrested in the wake of a one-day national strike in 1980 and Mahmud Jalbut , a Palestinian arrested in 1980 . |
| 4 | A close relationship developed among the visitors . |
| 5 | Among the sources she will find are critical reviews , articles , catalogues and books about New York painting of the 1940s and 1950s , which will remind her that Pollock died in 1956 . |
| 6 | Among the magazine articles , which are most likely to be interesting to her ? |
| 7 | ‘ Beneath a sultry sky , at four o'clock , the island , boats slipping past its flank , stirring with a casual Sunday crowd enjoying the fresh air among the trees ; and these forty or so figures are endowed with a succinct , hieratic line … |
| 8 | He accepted a position in a dealer 's gallery , where Matisse was among the artists who benefited from his judgement . |
| 9 | Either book could be considered the masterpiece of someone whom I think of as among the most gifted authors now at work in England . |
| 10 | Kenya Asians are now working hard in the darkness and grime of British cities , where Patel is among the commonest names in the telephone directory . |
| 11 | Keats placed him among the stars , where Keats himself , for similar reasons , was to be placed by Shelley . |
| 12 | Ursula and Gianni got off at the next station but one , having brought their growing mutual admiration to a startling climax wedged solid among the rocking mass of sober commuters . |
| 13 | Those who pursue comparisons of the kind I am referring to are likely to be impressed by the staying-power of a literary preoccupation to which a variety of temperaments and compulsions has been attracted , and could well be inclined to believe that Pechorin 's duel and indifference may have been among the precedents that weighed , a century later , with a woman bent on contriving her appointment with destiny . |
| 14 | Among the few Standish neighbours on the row is Eric , long gone from the closet and married to Stevie , a he-man former semi-film-star , whom he eventually stabs . |
| 15 | The status of comedy is crucial to the debate , and we can at least be sure that Kingsley Amis would not object to having his practice compared with Waugh 's , or to being placed with him among the monologists of the Right . |
| 16 | I think that many of his readers would be prepared to bear witness to the sense that somewhere in there among the changing shapes is the usual nonpareil . |
| 17 | Among the principal references to Israel in Levi 's writings is one which is , from a Zionist point of view , tin-eared . |
| 18 | It is a measure of the grim recalcitrance of the region 's problems that Schultz 's message was reported to have been saluted by a strike called in protest among the Palestinians of the occupied territories . |
| 19 | I do n't suggest that these unfavourable writings pushed him to do what he did , though I do n't mind suggesting that the bigotry and vicarious piety they may be reckoned to contain could be classed among the negative experiences of the last months of his life . |
| 20 | He is among the least ego-bound of book-writers , the least ego-bound of autobiographers , at all times able to look beyond himself and his community . |
| 21 | Infidelity among the architect class . |
| 22 | In a detailed study of the Stormont archives , Bew , Gibbon , and Patterson ( 1979 ) have shown that there were indeed different currents within the Stormont administration but the ones which predominated belonged to those among the ruling protestant classes who were bent on preservation of the status quo for their own purposes , including their own dominance of the protestant alliance as well as their particular sectional interests . |
| 23 | But it is likely that the professionals who have been responsible for the running of such companies at local level will have been allied to the more liberal group among the upper protestant classes , as represented by such families as the O'Neills , who have looked to the English public schools for the right sort of education . |
| 24 | Wallis , Bruce , and Taylor ( 1986 ) list this mainly landed gentry among the cosmopolitans of Ulster society . |
| 25 | The limitations on the power of these liberal groups within protestant loyalism are demonstrated by the fact that they have only been allowed to function among the leadership of the people so long as they obeyed the basic tenets and values common to the alliance as a whole . |
| 26 | Those members of the catholic population who sought to advance up the class structure had to adjust to more marginal roles among the professional classes . |
| 27 | The clerical and lay leadership also experienced a third pressure , that of protecting the faithful from the proselytizing activities of a number of evangelical protestants mainly among the young . |
| 28 | Apart from the fact that there has been significant support for the alliance party over the last dozen years or so among the catholic middle classes , there is also a further factor . |
| 29 | Either there are two different groups among the loyalists , subscribing to two different loyalisms . |
| 30 | As Miller argues , there is a long tradition among the protestants of Ulster of viewing the British state ambiguously . |