Example sentences of "[pron] have [be] among the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Women — who have been among the poorest of the poor — are primordially those who will be liberated . |
| 3 | What socialism there has been among the catholic — nationalist tradition has always tended to be allied to republicanism , especially in the period 1913 to 1930 ( Rumpf and Hepburn 1977 : 13 ) . |
| 4 | ( Two surviving compositors , both of whom began work in 1909 told me that they had been among the last recruits . ) |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The climb had been no trouble to Harry , bred as he had been among the crags of Snowdon . |
| 9 | It is hard to be inactive when fell-walking , in Michael 's case , and swimming in mine have been among the greatest of pleasures . |