Example sentences of "[been] among [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1944 the Ingushis and the Chechens had been among several ethnic groups charged en masse with collaborating with the Nazi German invaders and deported to Central Asia . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She was to have been among those entrusted with the secret of the girls ' switched identities . |
| 8 | Stallholder Pete would have been among those killed and Wicksy would have been paralysed . |
| 9 | Robin Smith kept wicket for the five overs remaining , Stewart having been among those hit painfully on the ankle or foot while batting . |
| 10 | Havelock Wilson who had , of course , been among those leaders to whom Larkin 's vituperation had been particularly directed , reserved his regrets for the oppressed people of Ireland whose cause had been so ill served by the " blunders and follies " of Larkin who " had such a splendid case , but made such a sorry mess of it , doing everything he ought not to have done and nothing that he ought to " and bringing , by his defeat , comfort to the Irish employers who had nothing good to be said for them at all . |
| 11 | ( Indeed , it is psychologists who have been among those who have queried most sharply even the theoretical feasibility of my third criterion ) . |
| 12 | Years before , when Valery Giscard d'Estaing was minister if finance , he had been among those to call on the Shah at the Villa Suvretta in St Moritz . |
| 13 | As everyone knows , the insurance industry 's recent experience of its very own crisis scenario has led to , if a particular line of cover has not been among those withdrawn because of poor claims records , dramatic increases in premiums . |
| 14 | It would not have been so light a thing to her if Hotspur had been among those dour-faced lordlings clattering through the streets of Shrewsbury with their shame . |
| 15 | The French government on Aug. 19 ordered its naval commanders to apply sanctions " with firmness " ; France , however , had been among those Security Council members reportedly expressing concern on Aug. 13 over the prospect of individual members , rather than the Security Council , deciding to move to enforce a blockade . |
| 16 | Gen. Marin Neagoe , a former divisional chief of the Securitate security forces , was imprisoned for seven years on May 29 for his role in suppressing the riots ; on May 10 the former Securitate chief Julian Vlad had been among those sentenced to prison terms of up to five years [ see p. 38207 ] . |
| 17 | Deputy chairs Boris Isayev and Svetlana Goryacheva , who had been among those seeking Yeltsin 's resignation in April 1991 [ see p. 38130 ] , had resigned their posts on Oct. 24 . |
| 18 | The panel noted " direct and circumstantial evidence " that Gen. Juan Rafael Bustillo , then Commander of the Air Force ( now military attaché in Israel ) , Gen. René Emilio Ponce , then the Army Chief of Staff ( currently Defence and Public Security Minister ) , and Gen. Juan Orlando Zepeda , currently the Deputy Defence Minister , had been among those who had planned an attack the day before at the Salvadorean military academy . |