Example sentences of "[pers pn] be among the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1983 it was held in Edinburgh and I was among the entries . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ He said , she 's among the others . |
| 4 | They are among the performers on a new LP titled The Exotic Beatles . |
| 5 | ‘ They were among the things that attracted me . ’ |
| 6 | Perhaps they were among the racegoers , waiting another chance to kidnap their quarry . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The men and women who made it were among the friends who welcomed us to Nigeria and Ghana . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It is among the merchants and civil servants that fear of the Khmer Rouge is highest . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was among the Phoenicians that the great god Baal originated . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He was among the founders of the Linguistic Society of America and one of its early presidents . |