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

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1 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 ’ .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 It is hard to be inactive when fell-walking , in Michael 's case , and swimming in mine have been among the greatest of pleasures .
5 For generations , printers in Fleet Street have been among the highest-paid industrial workers in Britain .
6 To date , the banks have been among the pacesetters in western capital 's Drang nach dem Osten .
7 The Portuguese have been among the most knowledgeable sevens exponents in the tournament .
8 Tariffs in the past have been among the lowest in the country , with a 2% rise in 1991-92 .
9 Quinn might have had a hat-trick and added : ‘ The last two games have been among my best performances here .
10 Washington and New York have been among the highs — alongside a triumphant LA show , the same night that Morrissey played across town .
11 Its schools are set in green-lawned campuses , and for years its teachers have been among the highest-paid in Texas .
12 Women — who have been among the poorest of the poor — are primordially those who will be liberated .
13 In particular , booksellers have been among my greatest supporters .
14 Indeed , some writers have suggested that the development of cheap , fairly reliable and fairly safe forms of contraception , together with the liberalization of the laws on abortion , have been among the most important gains to women in recent decades .
15 ( Indeed , it is psychologists who have been among those who have queried most sharply even the theoretical feasibility of my third criterion ) .
16 We think this exercise is very important and have been among a small handful of organisations in Wales who have been consulted so far .
17 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 " .
18 GREENPEACE , who have been among nuclear power 's strongest critics in the past , could switch to become supporters of the industry .
19 Brussels , Copenhagen , Strasbourg , Madrid , Heraklion and Cambridge have been among the front runners of 48 competing cities .
20 Women in Cheltenham have been among the first to try out the NORPLANT contraceptive .
21 Police have been among the main targets of Muslim extremists seeking to turn Egypt into an Islamic theocracy and more than 200 people have died in the violence over the past 20 months .
22 Total employment is now almost half a million less than the numbers Mrs Thatcher inherited in 1979 , and more than half the jobs lost have been among the self-employed .
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