Example sentences of "[pers pn] be among the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The authorities in Addis Ababa had undertaken to provide me with an escort of ten soldiers while I was among the Danakil . |
| 2 | In 1983 it was held in Edinburgh and I was among the entries . |
| 3 | If you accept that unanimity is a near Impossibility , and that a majority decision is the next best thing , you also have to accept , as a general rule , that you will abide by a majority decision when it turns out that you are among the minority . |
| 4 | If you are among the 40pc of the population who show a susceptibility to allergy , do n't lose heart ! |
| 5 | SUMMER can be hell if you are among the hordes who endure nettle rash , bad reactions to insect bites and stings , sensitivity to sunlight , or any of the allergies which are so common from now right on through the summer . |
| 6 | ‘ He said , she 's among the others . |
| 7 | If this supposition is correct it would explain Minton 's gratitude to her , for she was among the list of close friends to whom he left a small financial benefit . |
| 8 | This consolidates our marketing network in the Puget Sound area , where we are among the market leaders . |
| 9 | They are among the performers on a new LP titled The Exotic Beatles . |
| 10 | The Catholic Church refuses to re-marry such men and women unless they are among the minority who secure rare Church nullity decrees of their previous marriages . |
| 11 | ‘ They were among the things that attracted me . ’ |
| 12 | By such standards both footballers and cricketers , provided they were among the minority who avoided injury and played in the first team , were quite well off for a few years . |
| 13 | Perhaps they were among the racegoers , waiting another chance to kidnap their quarry . |
| 14 | There will be a number of such opportunities , whether they be among the commandos or the Marine commandos , or in the SAS , the new Royal Engineers Regiment — whose headquarters will be in Scotland — or the new Scottish Yeomanry Regiment which is to be set up . |
| 15 | The men and women who made it were among the friends who welcomed us to Nigeria and Ghana . |
| 16 | And you , Ben Smith , Jones , or Robinson , spruce yourself up , because it 's among the gentry you 'll be goin' . ’ |
| 17 | Because the ministry has been brought into being by God , the result is that it bears fruit , whether it is among the gentiles in Pisidian Antioch or the whole group of hearers in Lystra . |
| 18 | It is among the merchants and civil servants that fear of the Khmer Rouge is highest . |
| 19 | Vaclav Havel is a hero to the assembly-line workers at the Skoda car plant as much as he is among the country 's students . |
| 20 | Havel is a hero to the assembly-line workers at the Skoda car plant as much as he is among the country 's students . |
| 21 | However the king-emperor allowed his wife , Isabella of Portugal , in 1526 to have a chapel of Spanish and Portuguese musicians and it was among the instrumentalists of this body , which was taken over by Philip II when he became regent of Spain in 1543 , that we find the innovators : the blind organist Antonio de Cabezon ( C. 1500–1566 ) , who was one of its original members , the clavichordist Francisco de Soto ( c. 1500–1563 ) , who joined soon after , and Luis de Narváez ( d. after 1555 ) , a player of the vihuela de mano ( the Spanish lute ) who was recruited by Philip . |
| 22 | The suggestion has been made before now that it was among the Basques that this future rebel against the king of England learnt his what were , for the time , dangerously democratic principles . |
| 23 | It was among the Phoenicians that the great god Baal originated . |
| 24 | In November 1444 he was among the knights in the English party which went to France to witness the proxy wedding of Henry VI with Margaret of Anjou [ qq.v. ] , and is mentioned as a participant in the dress rehearsal of her royal entry into Rouen in 1445 . |
| 25 | Together with Aymer de Valence , Earl of Pembroke [ q.v. ] ( often his partner in these years ) , he led an expedition to the north in 1315 ; in 1316 he took a major role in the suppression of the Welsh rising of Llywelyn ab Rhys ( Llewelyn Bren ) [ q.v. ] and of the revolt at Bristol ; and in the same year he was among the committee of bishops and magnates appointed to reform the royal household . |
| 26 | Also , as a means of diffusing his own publications , this time through advertisement , he was among the backers in 1788 of the first evening daily , the Star and Evening Advertiser ; it created a precedent in offering a copy service to others . |
| 27 | Then once more he would ask himself whether he was among the Elect or whether the Day of Grace might have already come and gone . |
| 28 | He was among the founders of the Association of Cricket Statisticians in 1973 , playing a prominent role in their series of publications on the players of each first-class county and producing the A to Z of Cricket Records in 1976 : ‘ I had seen a book on the football records and persuaded the publisher to try a similar volume on cricket records — not only listing them by explaining them . |
| 29 | He was among the founders of the Linguistic Society of America and one of its early presidents . |
| 30 | He was among the Wiltshire justices reproved for obstructing royal purveyors of timber for the navy in 1637 and he refused a contribution to the expenses of the bishops ' war two years later . |