Example sentences of "[noun] have often been " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sternest critics of religion have often been found within religions . |
| 2 | The two aims of increasing productivity and redistribution that have permeated agrarian thinking have often been seen as competing rather than complementary . |
| 3 | Marxists have often been reticent on these questions . |
| 4 | Single mothers and teenage pregnancies have often been presented as a pressing social problem . |
| 5 | Political parties have often been attacked as bad things in the body politic . |
| 6 | To say that religious beliefs have infiltrated discussions of scientific method is not to say that they have directly affected scientific practice , for statements about methodology have often been rationalizations , used to justify a research program already in existence . |
| 7 | Because of this vessels have often been stranded on the island in the past and there is a Coastguard Life Saving Apparatus team stationed there . |
| 8 | The conquistadors ' descendants have often been challenged — from outside by British and then North American capitalists , from within by ( to use the author 's formulation ) ‘ the Communist Party or Arab and Jewish minorities ’ . |
| 9 | Not only have major industries virtually collapsed but their sites have often been totally cleared . |
| 10 | Traditionally , housing sites have often been named after local water such as Bishop 's Wharf overlooking the River Ouse in York . |
| 11 | Writers like Saunders ( 1984 , 1986 ) have pointed out the problems of structuralism , but in their own work have often been guilty of endorsing profoundly capital logic accounts of social process . |
| 12 | Sociolinguists who present their data using the simple graphs and frequency tables popularized by Labov in his early work have often been criticized for lack of statistical sophistication . |
| 13 | The disagreements , or even lack of communication , between , for instance , Hegelians , Marxists , phenomenologists and Thomists have often been deep . |
| 14 | Productivity-enhancing research and development in many lesser developed countries have often been harmful , where they have been accessible to farmers of those areas . |
| 15 | By contrast , says Clarke , the poor and working class within those communities have often been more accepting of those ‘ who would be outcast by the ruling culture — many times to spite the white man , but mainly because the conditions of our lives have made us empathic ’ . |
| 16 | It has been observed in connection with North Sea oil developments that the local communities have often been cast in the role of David against the Goliath of the oil companies . |
| 17 | Relations between The Family Reunion and Sweeney Agonistes have often been remarked on . |
| 18 | In public rhetoric small companies have often been lumped together with the large internationals and the same expectations have been imposed . |
| 19 | One problem with this kind of criticism is that the ‘ images ’ in question have often been misinterpreted , since they have been discussed without reference to the context or narrative structure in which they may appear . |
| 20 | These criticisms have often been the crux of the public case against land drainage . |
| 21 | Other popular movements of protest and reform have often been met by violence — for example , the civil rights movement of the 1960s in the US , and on a larger scale the diverse movements in Eastern Europe , as well as in many parts of the Third World , which have been suppressed by military force . |
| 22 | Small peasant farmers , who own their own plots have often been compelled to sell land through poverty and debts . |
| 23 | With so many ‘ mature ’ players playing in the Whaddon strip over the years , varicose veins have often been in evidence . |
| 24 | The many interesting and sometimes elaborate forms of instinctive behaviour shown by insects have often been described and some have also been explained as simple taxes and kineses or interpreted in more complex ethological terms ( Tinbergen , 1951 ; Baerends , 1959 ; Fraenkel and Gunn , 19612 ; Thorpe , 1963 ; Haskell , 1966 ; Evans , 1966 ; von Frisch , 1967 ; Sudd , 1967 ; Ewing and Manning , 1967 ; Manning , 1972 ) . |
| 25 | Social and life skills classes have often been created with the overt intention of facilitating the integration of students with disabilities ( Dee 1988 ) , yet they may lack certification and have low academic status . |
| 26 | In other studies , investigators have often been able to assume that they know the lexical input to commonly occurring vowel variables such as ( e ) and ( a ) and also that all the lexical items counted have the much the same potential for variation ( that is , the direction of variation will be consistent throughout ) . |
| 27 | Similar criticisms of these explanations have often been formulated by sociologically-based theories which attempt to reflect the connections between the legal system and the political , cultural and economic systems . |
| 28 | Measures taken by individual governments have often been limited in scope , have been poorly funded and afforded relatively low priority in national affairs . |
| 29 | British governments have often been feeble ; Israel 's often decisive , even fierce . |
| 30 | In the latest episode , rivers and wetlands have often been the field of battle . |