Example sentences of "[pers pn] be amongst the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 In the following month his was amongst the names of twenty foreign professors to receive the Micheliano Catalogo and in 1758 he appeared on a list of those to receive a consignment of seeds .
2 Although ‘ classical ’ phoneme theory does not allow allophonic overlapping and approximation without merger , the Belfast research suggests that overlap and merger of phones in particular environments are common , and that they are amongst the patterns noticed when linguistic change is observed in progress .
3 Then they were amongst the conifers near the road , a smell of resin and dead bracken , twigs catching their legs .
4 He 's amongst the qualifiers for the Lancome trophy at Paris .
5 Although it was amongst the women 's glossies as promised , it was still tucked away in a corner with only its spine showing .
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