Example sentences of "it be among " in BNC.
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| 1 | The importance that the Government place on this section is shown by the fact that it was among the first provisions of the 1989 Act to be brought into operation and the regulations made under it were among the first to be published . |
| 2 | The men and women who made it were among the friends who welcomed us to Nigeria and Ghana . |
| 3 | There is still a cult following for the Leger and the Normale , and though I sympathise with it , it 's among the D-series fanatics that you 'll find me swapping gasps . |
| 4 | It 's among the best arcade adventures available for the C64 , and one of Ocean 's better conversions . |
| 5 | It 's among the shyer species of Cory and is considered very difficult to spawn in aquaria . |
| 6 | ‘ Junglist ’ is lyrically typical : fast , furious , endless and uncompromising , and musically it 's among the wildest ‘ Jungle House ’ ( to use the current revolting , faintly racist expression ) tunes you 'll hear . |
| 7 | And you , Ben Smith , Jones , or Robinson , spruce yourself up , because it 's among the gentry you 'll be goin' . ’ |
| 8 | The Chief Prisons Inspector Judge Stephen Tumim says it 's among the worst prison accommodation he 's seen . |
| 9 | It 's among the first of about thirty thousand which are being built in Britain . |
| 10 | It is among the merchants and civil servants that fear of the Khmer Rouge is highest . |
| 11 | This year 's Blaze of Glory featured in the region of an hour of strong tunes , eclectically arranged , and it is among these that the current live show centres . |
| 12 | As it is among your flowers , the best thing is to keep pulling it out ( this is easy as the roots are very shallow ) and hoe between plants weekly to remove new seedlings . |
| 13 | A 50 per cent preference for residential care might be considered high , but it should be remembered that the dementia sufferers in this sample were mainly already in the advanced stages of their illness , and also that only 3l per cent of the principal carers were spouses , and it is among spouses that the highest preference for home care appears ( see Gilhooly , 1986 ) . |
| 14 | It is among the most significant structural elements of the developed law of trusts that it can resort to bold construction to validate a testator 's intentions . |
| 15 | It is among a small number of churches designed specifically to accommodate the liturgical changes which followed from the Second Vatican Council . |
| 16 | Because the ministry has been brought into being by God , the result is that it bears fruit , whether it is among the gentiles in Pisidian Antioch or the whole group of hearers in Lystra . |
| 17 | Whichever is the answer , one might protest that it is among the most self-evidently absurd generalisations to have been made since the ludicrous title of Saul Bellow 's last full-length novel , More Die of Heartbreak , to which one must answer : no , more do not die of heartbreak . |
| 18 | In this respect it is among the noblest as it is the vastest moral spectacle in history . |
| 19 | Now considered the finest portrait remaining in private hands in Britain , it is among a very few first rank works by the artist in any genre remaining in private hands in Britain . |
| 20 | It is among the least publicity-seeking and therefore among the least well known of the major firms , but enjoys a very high reputation within the executive search industry itself . |
| 21 | It wants to be among the top three software-systems integration houses in France by the end of 1994 , where it is among the top five today , Tordjman said . |
| 22 | It is among several which fear possible closure within months unless the new assessment and funding procedures move up several gears . |
| 23 | At Sheriff Hutton , as at Middleham , the core of the affinity consisted of men whose own estates lay close to the castle and it is among these that continuity is likely to have been strongest . |
| 24 | Currently it is among the 10 per cent most solvent UK corporations in PAS-score terms . |
| 25 | As it stands , it is among the best of the poetry of the Oxford Movement , and probably a longer life would have produced the mastery foreseen by Bridges and James . |
| 26 | There is still evidence that the young and newly diagnosed patients remain at increased risk of death and it is among these that we must concentrate our efforts . |
| 27 | At Sheriff Hutton , as at Middleham , the core of the affinity consisted of men whose own estates lay close to the castle and it is among these that continuity is likely to have been strongest . |
| 28 | Paraphrase ( or summary ) It is among the most striking features of detective fiction , Patricia Craig points out , that all kinds of topical ideologies are easily accommodated within it . |
| 29 | The details of the patterns depend on the magnitude of the advantage accruing to defectors ( the value of b ) , but a wide range of values leads to chaotic patterns , whose nature is almost always independent of the initial proportions of C and D. We believe that deterministically generated spatial structure within populations may often be crucial for the evolution of cooperation , whether it be among molecules , cells or organisms . |
| 30 | ‘ The man who drilled for the test said it was among the hardest block he 'd ever seen . |