Example sentences of "[being] among the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both the Borough and Health Authority have supported the work of ACET in Ealing by being among the first to provide financial support . |
| 2 | Four of the absentees suffered the squirming discomfort of being among the Welsh squad . |
| 3 | From being among the dullest of Japan 's manufacturers , Nissan has blossomed into one of its most creative and capable . |
| 4 | Jack said he would and twenty-three years later , in May 1990 , Roger Corman named it as being among the best pictures he had made , and by then the total had exceeded 200 . |
| 5 | This was facilitated by the development of a remarkable notation for numbers , the Maya being among the most numerate civilizations there have ever been . |
| 6 | Much has been written on the topic of occupational health and hygiene and it is recognised that the provision of an adequate and tolerable physical working environment and the promotion of a general feeling of well being among the workforce , is not only important in preventing occupational disease , but in the prevention of accidents . |
| 7 | Countless times , before Longines took up the electronic timing of practice , Ferrari had managed to surprise every one else 's chronometers with their ‘ times ’ : they had a rabid press and rabid fans behind them and the Monza authorities , besides being among the least efficient on the circuit , were also the most pliant . |
| 8 | It was like being among the dead men in an enormous empty green cathedral . |
| 9 | The relative scarcity of ethnographic descriptions of peaceful societies has resulted in focusing a good deal of interest on those that do exist : Colin Turnbull 's description of the Ituri Forest Pygmies ( 1961 ) , Elizabeth Marshall Thomas ' characterization of the ‘ harmless people ’ , the Kalahari Bushmen ( 1958 ) , Robert Dentan 's description of the Semai as ‘ non-violent people of Malaya ’ ( 1968 ) , Robert Levy 's ethnography of the Tahitians ( 1973 ) , Jean Briggs ' descriptions of the Inuit ( 1970 , 1975 ) , and Melford Spiro 's accounts of life on Ifaluk ( 1950 , 1952 ) , being among the most notable . |
| 10 | JEAN-MARIE Yacoubou , a former prisoner of conscience in Benin , told the Hammersmith & Fulham Group recently that he could never have imagined being among the people with whom he had corresponded while in prison . |
| 11 | From this distance , and her being among the other women , the child had not recognised her mother , but when the sentence was passed , ‘ One pound or one month ’ , and the woman turned about and the child saw her face , a cry escaped her , and she was about to spring forward when Aggie pulled her tight against her leg and , bending down , hissed at her , ‘ Quiet ! |
| 12 | Certainly , they are useful characteristics for sportsmen , as are the more psychological ones , intuitive vision , resistance to pressure and the ability to remain calm under stress being among the more obvious ones . |
| 13 | He has the distinction of being among the very first in the country to ‘ do Koi properly ’ , and his 25 years ' experience were passed on to Ken at meetings of the local section of the BKKS . |
| 14 | Its scenery is widely regarded as being among the best in the country . |
| 15 | A number of pressure groups should also be referred to as being among the ‘ kinship defenders ’ . |
| 16 | Thus yellow and roundness might be intrinsic properties of a yellow ball as being among the properties in virtue of the possession of which another ball might be exactly like it . |
| 17 | A number of authorities in Britain have attempted to devise means of sharing decision-making with neighbourhood groups , Islington and Walsall Councils being among the first to do so . |
| 18 | Hewlett-Packard 's PA-RISC , Slater held up as being among the fastest workstations shipping today , as having a rich architecture and as having a large primary cache in current implementations . |
| 19 | The introduction and enforcement of strict drink-driving laws and speed limits backed up by forceful television advertisements produced a large reduction in deaths from road traffic accidents , the death rate in relation to the number of vehicles in 1991 being among the lowest in the world . |
| 20 | Freud , like Lévi-Strauss , is interested in how man developed from being among the higher anthropoids to being human . |
| 21 | Of the hedgerow shrubs which still hold fruits , the hips of the various species of rose may well be the most obvious , often being among the last fruits to be eaten by hungry wintering thrushes . |
| 22 | And so long as all citizens stand a good chance of being among the majority on at least some of the major and significant issues , most if not all will be content to accept the majority principle . |
| 23 | An embarrassing historical fact for falsificationists is that if their methodology had been strictly adhered to by scientists then those theories generally regarded as being among the best examples of scientific theories would never have been developed because they would have been rejected in their infancy . |
| 24 | The third item , which simply takes the sum of the four indicators most commonly used as measures of ( housing ) deprivation in the GRE formulae , identifies Kensington and Chelsea , Camden , and Hammersmith and Fulham as being among the five ‘ most deprived ’ Authorities in England : while these Boroughs contain pockets of deprivation and of poverty , it is clearly a nonsensical ranking . |
| 25 | and William III as central characters — Cry Treason ( 1940 ) , We Stood For Freedom ( 1941 ) , and The Mighty Years ( 1943 ) — were widely acclaimed as being among the best historical novels of their time . |
| 26 | In 1931 the company was bought , to Bentley 's chagrin , by its rival , Rolls-Royce , Bentley 's service contract being among the assets acquired . |
| 27 | They are of outstanding interest , being among the earliest surviving examples of their type anywhere in the world . |
| 28 | From 1165 to 1299 , considerable prison building was being carried on throughout the country with Rochester being among the earliest in I 165 . |
| 29 | Meeting them in the evening , going on somewhere , being among the rowdy , but good-natured crowd had been her focus in weeks blurred with grief and pain . |
| 30 | He cited corruption , police brutality , detentions without trial and nepotism as being among the " crimes " of the Sebe regime , which was notorious for its disregard for human rights . |