Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] is often [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remarks ( i ) The symbols unc ( the first of which is often called " hot cross plus " ! ) are used in preference to + and . |
| 2 | Another polyphosphate used is sodium hexametaphosphate the choice of which is often governed by availability and price at the time . |
| 3 | Considerations such as these would seem to lead inevitably towards what is often called a ‘ representational theory of the mind ’ . |
| 4 | Much of what is often praised in broadcasting is there because of a regulatory structure which encourages diversity in programming . |
| 5 | The usage embodied in the first of these quotations is now well established in the literature , and the sentiments expressed in the second serve to remind us that the idea of the ultimately contingent nature of what is often taken to be ‘ natural ’ has a long and distinguished pedigree . |
| 6 | But in spite of what is often claimed , there is no such thing as a dead marriage . |
| 7 | The damp surface is an ideal environment for micro-organisms to grow , and protection against them is often provided by special poison-producing glands all over the skin . |
| 8 | This assumption is hardly ever challenged ; yet it is clearly the case that many scientists are as incompetent in the humanities as many humanities graduates tend to be in the sciences ; it is perhaps a mark of the enormous divide we have made between the two areas that ability in one is often considered to preclude ability in the other . |
| 9 | birth and as we 've said before it is often found in abnormal presentation like a breach , bottom first . |
| 10 | In the following section we shall examine the changes that have occurred in the UK economy in the decades leading up to the latest period of structural change , the changes over the post-war period culminating in what is often called the deindustrialization of the UK . |
| 11 | A second explanation may lie in what is often called the ‘ Rule of Taste ’ . |
| 12 | Political parties , professional associations and local authority associations are frequently the major actors in what is often referred to as the ‘ national local government system ’ ( see Rhodes 1988 ) . |
| 13 | This approach has received considerable reinforcement recently in what is often referred to as " the experiential approach to RE " ( see Chapter 6 for detailed discussion of this ) which focuses on helping pupils to relate to their own experiences and develop the skills they need to reflect on this in a meaningful way . |
| 14 | I include them because his statement that his days on the Western Front — in spite of the horror and the squalor — were the happiest of his life seems to be some sort of commentary on the greater part of a lifetime spent in what is often regarded as the idyllic English countryside . |
| 15 | This interest in what is often termed ‘ cultural heritage ’ also involves other studies , such as local history , heraldry and genealogy , but archaeology has an active role to play in providing a coherent picture of our heritage . |
| 16 | It was designed by F. W. Stevens in what is often described as the Gothic Saracenic style . |
| 17 | Goal displacement in the form of means becoming ends in themselves is often said to be a characteristic dysfunction of bureaucratic forms of organization . |
| 18 | Contrary to what is often seen in films , very few kicks are employed . |
| 19 | Contrary to what is often said , there is a law of trespass in Scotland but it is rather a complex and grey area . |
| 20 | Will they feel empty on the last child 's departure and give substance to what is often called the ‘ empty nest ’ syndrome of marriage ? |
| 21 | Where there is power , there is resistance : contrary to what is often assumed , it is the absence of resistance which is impossible . |
| 22 | This may seem like an odd question but there is quite some difference between eating styles , especially eating related to what is often viewed as ‘ naughty ’ food . |
| 23 | Clownfish are rarely observed in the wild without their protector and contrary to what is often recommended , they are not happy in the aquarium without an anemone . |
| 24 | Contrary to what is often supposed , especially by the more engagé workers in comparative religion , there is no cross culturally valid catalogue of phenomenologically distinct kinds of beneficent or baneful powers . |
| 25 | Talcott Parsons has been one of the sociologists to realize this , contrary to what is often supposed , as will be shown later in this chapter . |
| 26 | Contrary to what is often supposed , the Dutch were scarcely less prone to employ political means to promote their economic position than was the France of Louis XIV and Colbert . |
| 27 | This is a broad , catch-all term which ‘ gatecrashed the literature , thereby avoiding the entrance fee of a definition ’ ( Blackaby , 1979 , p. 2 ) ; the question of definitions is taken up in Chapter 2 but for the moment it is important to note that it is a misleading term for it is often used to describe the relative decline of manufacturing industry rather than industry as a whole which includes primary industries like mining , quarrying and oil and gas production and also includes construction and transport . |
| 28 | It has , in contrast , been Western orthodoxy to cling to technological superiority as a substitute for what is often taken to be an unbridgeable quantitative gap . |