Example sentences of "[been] among " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who pursue comparisons of the kind I am referring to are likely to be impressed by the staying-power of a literary preoccupation to which a variety of temperaments and compulsions has been attracted , and could well be inclined to believe that Pechorin 's duel and indifference may have been among the precedents that weighed , a century later , with a woman bent on contriving her appointment with destiny . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | The next day , Beaverbrook ( who , with Amery , had been among those who had helped bring down the Lloyd George coalition in 1922 ) ‘ strongly urged ’ Amery ‘ to work closely with Hailsham both to keep the positive campaign going and decide when the critical moment should come for putting an end to the Coalition ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Labour argues that it will not be significantly affected because most of those who evade the register would have been among the large proportion — between 20.1 per cent and 31.2 per cent in their top 10 target constituencies — who did not vote in 1987 . |
| 8 | Both men are American and have been among the best-paid executives of a British quoted company since the merger three years ago of SmithKline , an American drug company , and Beecham . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | By all accounts , not many years ago the Western Isles must have been among the most depressed of the peripheral areas of Europe . |
| 11 | The aqueous micelles comprising droplets of 1-octanol stabilised by octanoate ( surfactant is generated upon addition of sodium permanganate , which oxidises the alcohol to give the salt ) , could have biological relevance , because these may have been among the first prebiotic structures able to self-replicate . |
| 12 | In others , however , fee-payers ( who may or may not have been among ‘ the gifted and the intellectual ’ ) existed alongside those who had won places in the eleven-plus competition . |
| 13 | So her former connection with Rustenburg , and the presence there of his brother , may have been among the considerations that prompted Herbert Cranko to choose that town when he found it necessary to settle down after a roving life . |
| 14 | For example , Africa supplied Rome with two-thirds of its corn , transported in the great grain ships which must have been among the most impressive sights of antiquity . |
| 15 | There is one , indeed , in which Grahame must have been among the last to take part : the tradition of the ‘ Kimbly Cake ’ . |
| 16 | This scheme evokes strong doubts from some area officers and bureaux managers who may not have been among those who carried the vote to accept the plans . |
| 17 | On the economic front , changes in the economy and labour needs since the 1970s have been among the factors encouraging modification of this rigid system . |
| 18 | It is hard to be inactive when fell-walking , in Michael 's case , and swimming in mine have been among the greatest of pleasures . |
| 19 | For generations , printers in Fleet Street have been among the highest-paid industrial workers in Britain . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | To date , the banks have been among the pacesetters in western capital 's Drang nach dem Osten . |
| 22 | that Coe , Cram and Ovett had not been among the medal winners a a major championship meeting since 1976 . |
| 23 | HAVING been among those fortunate enough to be in Australia for the World Cup — and most enjoyable it was — there was one aspect of the television coverage which was extremely irritating . |
| 24 | It had been a tearful last time with Jonathan , her boyfriend of the time — but casual sex had never been among her hobbies . |
| 25 | These herbs would have been among those grown for medicinal purposes by the monks in days gone by and they may well have been planted by ponds stocked with carp in the grounds of the monastery . |
| 26 | The Portuguese have been among the most knowledgeable sevens exponents in the tournament . |
| 27 | Tariffs in the past have been among the lowest in the country , with a 2% rise in 1991-92 . |
| 28 | She was to have been among those entrusted with the secret of the girls ' switched identities . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Quinn might have had a hat-trick and added : ‘ The last two games have been among my best performances here . |