Example sentences of "[verb] been among " in BNC.

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1 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 ) .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 Since its foundation in 1943 , the Norwegian School of management ( NSM — Handeslhøyskolen BI ) has been among the leaders in developing innovative programs for both Norwegian and international students .
5 Klaasen 's contention that ‘ the only integration that has gone on so far has been among the top officials ’ seemed to be borne out by the fact that we had to wait for the penultimate game of the tours to seen the first nonwhite player take the field .
6 Certainly at county level Walsh has been among the most penetrative bowlers on the circuit since his debut here in 1984 , and in that period his name can be bracketed with such as Sir Richard Hadlee , Malcolm Marshall , Neil Foster , Terry Alderman , Allan Donald , and Waqar Younis as the man most likely to top the end-of-season averages .
7 In recent years there has been among social scientists an extensive debate about the extent to which the analysis of society and of social institutions can be ‘ value-free ’ .
8 One recent change has been among the so-called shabashniki .
9 Each has been among the leaders in positive action and now welcomes an examination of impediments to change .
10 The most dramatic improvement has been among arctic terns , which are breeding on the islands for the first time in seven years .
11 The former Swindon Town striker Duncan Shearer has been among the players giving evidence in court against his former manager Lou Macari .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 By all accounts , not many years ago the Western Isles must have been among the most depressed of the peripheral areas of Europe .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 There is one , indeed , in which Grahame must have been among the last to take part : the tradition of the ‘ Kimbly Cake ’ .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 Stallholder Pete would have been among those killed and Wicksy would have been paralysed .
23 However popular such finely decorated silver plates may have been among the wealthy Britons , it is highly unlikely that they would be seen by the working potters , who would have had to rely on a more popular source for their repertoire .
24 But the Pharisees would have provided him with some of his most loyal and fervent followers , and would have been among the first to regard him as the Messiah .
25 By definition no woman could have been among the twelve , since a circumcised male alone could represent a patriarch of Israel .
26 Though it has been suggested that Cynddylan may have been among Penda 's British allies at the Winwaed , there is no direct evidence for this , but when Penda attacked Oswiu in the mid-650s he is said to have been supported by British kings ( HB ch. 64 ) , principal among whom was Cadafael ap Cynfedw , king of Gwynedd ( HB ch. 65 ) .
27 He was secure enough to mint his own silver pennies , which must have been among the first of the new coins to be produced and an indication of the economic vitality and continuing independence of his kingdom .
28 Welsh rulers , with whom Offa may have been at war and who possibly ruled in British territory subject to him , could have been among the kings of the Scots ( Irish ) who recognized the lordship of Charlemagne .
29 At that time , grape varieties were n't exactly classified , but Chardonnay , for instance , could have been among them .
30 It is also possible that life developed , and if the rate of evolution was about twice as rapid as on the Earth then intelligent beings may have been among the organisms roasted to death as the Sun 's luminosity rose , the small oceans evaporated , and the CO 2 emerged from the rocks .
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