Example sentences of "had be among the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The writer was Ford Madox Ford , who was among the most loyal as he had been among the first of Pound 's friends ; in the twenties he was as penurious and as out of fashion as Pound . |
| 2 | Two whaling nations that had been among the largest , the United States and Britain , gave up whaling , and others have recently given up or are showing signs of doing so . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Opinion in both these movements , however , was as strongly divided as it had been among the trade union movement and the Independent Labour Party twenty years before . |
| 5 | As Ellen Wilkinson ( who in the 1920s had been among the first women in the Labour Party to support family allowances ) wrote in 1938 : ‘ what the Amery type want is to feed the existing and potential cannon-fodder with the greatest economy and lack of waste . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ( Two surviving compositors , both of whom began work in 1909 told me that they had been among the last recruits . ) |
| 9 | In their eighties , they were still living in Norham Gardens , the North Oxford avenue that leads to Lady Margaret Hall , the women 's college where they had studied and taught ; they had been among the first women students to be allowed officially to take a degree , though woman sat the examinations in order to make the point after the college 's foundation in 1878 . |
| 10 | Dougal , not Lorton , had been among the Newleys ' guests when Newley had been tricked into revealing his hiding place . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I realized that this suit had been among the clothes Barrymore had left for Selden , and I told Holmes . |
| 13 | 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 ] . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This had been among the most violent events reported during several weeks ' of clashes between Kirghiz and Uzbeks in Kirghizia 's Osh oblast ( region ) [ see pp. 37540-41 ; 37618 ] . |
| 16 | The climb had been no trouble to Harry , bred as he had been among the crags of Snowdon . |
| 17 | As it turned out , Mother was still delighted to remind all her friends that I had been among the first women from the East End to sign the register . |