Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] was among the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The dead were named last night as Mr Paul Gordon Butt , 29 , a securities dealer , Mr Thomas Casey , 49 , a door keeper , and Danielle Carter , 15 , whose eight-year-old sister was among the injured . |
| 2 | A BRITISH pilot was among the officers who helped destroy Somali armoured vehicles after coming under fire , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 3 | A draft agreement covering the ownership of works of art and the division of cultural property was among the scores of treaties and agreements drawn up between the Czech and Slovak Republics prior to the 1 January dissolution of the seventy-four-year-old state of Czechoslovakia . |
| 4 | For the Australian army was among the first , if not the first , Allied service taking up the commando idea , even though they already had nearly four divisions overseas . |
| 5 | The prison-building programme was among the casualties . |
| 6 | An unnamed Briton was among the dead when the plane went down on November 14 . |
| 7 | Virgin retail was among the top three record-shop chains in Britain , with shops in almost every major town and plans to develop a new concept in record retailing , a ‘ megastore ’ , in Oxford Street , close by the site of the first ever Virgin shop . |
| 8 | In another reversal of attitude , the Soviet delegation was among the strongest advocates of even tougher international action to protect human rights against government abuse . |
| 9 | His verdict on low-alcohol and alcohol-free beer was among the politest gleaned by a vox-pop of South London drinkers . |
| 10 | When bread was a shilling a loaf and men earned less than ten shillings from a long week 's work , his father or some other relation was among the most bitterly rebellious against a system that could tolerate such things . |
| 11 | Markovic 's new party was among the first to take advantage of the passage by the Federal Chamber of Yugoslavia 's Federal Assembly on July 25 of a law allowing the formation of political parties " of a general Yugoslav character " . |