Example sentences of "[adv] been among " in BNC.
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| 1 | financial services have long been among the heaviest users of search ; Michael Brookes at Nomura referred to 20 major assignments in less than three years with many more slightly lower-level searches . |
| 2 | Furthermore , the farm worker has generally been among the last to receive citizenship rights granted to the rest of the population — the shadow of the workhouse was not finally removed until 1936 , the Rent Act was not extended to agricultural dwellings until 1976 and even today agricultural legislation manages to override certain of the conditions of the Truck Acts . |
| 3 | Bach has always been among my major loves . |
| 4 | His cousin , Francis Drake , who had also been among the survivors of San Juan de Ulloa , took a more aggressive attitude to the Spanish empire ; as an uncompromising Protestant he felt that his country ought to be at war with Spain and , if it would not do this , he would fight on his own account , looking round for people prepared to invest in a private attack on the wealth of Spain . |
| 5 | They have also been among the major victims of the failure of the government 's inner city policies . |
| 6 | Similarly , after the implementation of the allowances , the Cooperative Women 's Guild , an organisation of working-class women within the Cooperative Movement which had originally been among the strongest supporters of the campaign for family allowances ( Lewis , 1980 ) , defeated a resolution calling for an increase in the amount of the allowance at their annual Congress in 1951 ( Gaffin and Thoms , 1983 , p. 161 ) . |
| 7 | Arafat 's decision to side with Iraq during the Gulf War had incensed the Saudis , who had previously been among his strongest financial backers . |
| 8 | It had been a tearful last time with Jonathan , her boyfriend of the time — but casual sex had never been among her hobbies . |