Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [be] among " in BNC.

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1 One recent change has been among the so-called shabashniki .
2 I realized that this suit had been among the clothes Barrymore had left for Selden , and I told Holmes .
3 ‘ Yes , ’ she agreed softly , and wondered if her mother and his father had been among them .
4 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 .
5 Tariffs in the past have been among the lowest in the country , with a 2% rise in 1991-92 .
6 The most dramatic improvement has been among arctic terns , which are breeding on the islands for the first time in seven years .
7 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 ] .
8 But the letter to Ritschl ( if we take it at face value , as we presumably should ) shows that Nietzsche had as yet no thought of basing a book on these subjects , although something pertinent to " Greek music drama " or " Socrates and tragedy " would , no doubt have been among the various matters envisaged for the miscellany in the " literary history or the " new ideas and views " .
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