Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] been among " in BNC.
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| 1 | One recent change has been among the so-called shabashniki . |
| 2 | CU has been among insurance groups hard hit by soaring claims and recently announced a pre-tax loss of £68.6 million on last year 's business . |
| 3 | The former Swindon Town striker Duncan Shearer has been among the players giving evidence in court against his former manager Lou Macari . |
| 4 | Gen. Marin Neagoe , a former divisional chief of the Securitate security forces , was imprisoned for seven years on May 29 for his role in suppressing the riots ; on May 10 the former Securitate chief Julian Vlad had been among those sentenced to prison terms of up to five years [ see p. 38207 ] . |
| 5 | Certainly at county level Walsh has been among the most penetrative bowlers on the circuit since his debut here in 1984 , and in that period his name can be bracketed with such as Sir Richard Hadlee , Malcolm Marshall , Neil Foster , Terry Alderman , Allan Donald , and Waqar Younis as the man most likely to top the end-of-season averages . |
| 6 | For generations , printers in Fleet Street have been among the highest-paid industrial workers in Britain . |
| 7 | In particular , booksellers have been among my greatest supporters . |
| 8 | Brussels , Copenhagen , Strasbourg , Madrid , Heraklion and Cambridge have been among the front runners of 48 competing cities . |
| 9 | To date , the banks have been among the pacesetters in western capital 's Drang nach dem Osten . |
| 10 | I realized that this suit had been among the clothes Barrymore had left for Selden , and I told Holmes . |
| 11 | When GATT was formed in 1948 China had been among the founder members , but its membership had lapsed after the withdrawal of the nationalists to Taiwan . |
| 12 | Beryl meant that Adam had been among the previous owners of Wyvis Hall while her husband had not , but she knew better than to point this out . |
| 13 | The feat was all the more admirable in that the notorious Armstrongs had been among the major headaches in the region under his own jurisdiction , and Willie was among the worst . |
| 14 | Robin Smith kept wicket for the five overs remaining , Stewart having been among those hit painfully on the ankle or foot while batting . |
| 15 | Solicitors acting for the National Union of Journalists are considering whether to bring a ‘ representative ’ or class action case against the newspaper , whose staff has been among the worst hit by the industrial injury . |
| 16 | Almond Nofomela had been among the most trusted of Coetzee 's askaris in his years with Section C. Nofomela had been involved in killings up to despatch of the unfortunate Lesotho diamond dealer . |
| 17 | ‘ Yes , ’ she agreed softly , and wondered if her mother and his father had been among them . |
| 18 | A substantial contingent of men from his abbey had been among Louis the Pious 's forces in Aquitaine since the previous autumn , and when they returned to Ferrières in July 840 , they brought first-hand news of Gerard 's appointment as commander of Charles 's garrison at Limoges . |
| 19 | Tariffs in the past have been among the lowest in the country , with a 2% rise in 1991-92 . |
| 20 | Its schools are set in green-lawned campuses , and for years its teachers have been among the highest-paid in Texas . |
| 21 | Quinn might have had a hat-trick and added : ‘ The last two games have been among my best performances here . |
| 22 | The rarity of such positive conceptions of homosexuality within , or in relation to , otherness , is the more significant given that homosexuals have been among those who have literally ( rather than metaphorically or theoretically ) embraced the cultural and racial difference of the ‘ other ’ . |
| 23 | The most dramatic improvement has been among arctic terns , which are breeding on the islands for the first time in seven years . |
| 24 | In 1944 the Ingushis and the Chechens had been among several ethnic groups charged en masse with collaborating with the Nazi German invaders and deported to Central Asia . |
| 25 | It would not have been so light a thing to her if Hotspur had been among those dour-faced lordlings clattering through the streets of Shrewsbury with their shame . |
| 26 | Women in Cheltenham have been among the first to try out the NORPLANT contraceptive . |
| 27 | Police have been among the main targets of Muslim extremists seeking to turn Egypt into an Islamic theocracy and more than 200 people have died in the violence over the past 20 months . |
| 28 | Washington and New York have been among the highs — alongside a triumphant LA show , the same night that Morrissey played across town . |
| 29 | Encircled by British , French and Italian territories , they were intensely proud of their age-old independence and very conscious that their forefathers had been among the earliest converts to Christianity . |
| 30 | The creation of the new presidency had been among the radical proposals announced by Gorbachev at a meeting of the CPSU central committee on Feb. 5-7 as part of a draft new party platform [ see pp. 37234-35 ] . |