Example sentences of "have often [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to cope with these problems , the ideas of Max Weber have often been employed in addition to , or instead of , those of Marx , and we will examine Weber 's approach shortly . |
| 2 | The criteria mentioned above have often been employed , as was noted at the beginning of this chapter , in the construction of very broad evolutionary schemes , but these have been increasingly criticized — in Marxist thought as elsewhere — for their excessively abstract depiction of the ‘ stages of development ’ which seem to fit very loosely the actual changes in political systems in different regions of the world and in determinate historical periods . |
| 3 | Despite the fact that dichotic listening techniques have often been adopted without proper validation , findings which show a difference in the direction and/or magnitude of ear asymmetry between groups of right and left ( or non-right ) handed subjects have been taken as indicating a difference in direction or magnitude of cerebral lateralisation . |
| 4 | The principal method is the study of hoards , since coins have frequently been deposited in hoards for safe-keeping and their owners have often been prevented from recovering them for a variety of reasons such as death or forgetfulness . |
| 5 | They may define positions that have often been repeated , but they can not be given a timeless quality . |
| 6 | Unless they are made available for further research , data which have often been collected at great expense and with significant effort may later exist only in a small number of reports which analyse only a fraction of the research potential of the data . |
| 7 | It is likely that the reader will ask at this stage : ‘ Is all this magical and mystical stuff worth recording ! ’ or , as I have often been asked myself : ‘ Do you really believe in it ? ’ |
| 8 | I have often been asked why I was not content to photograph instead of kill them . |
| 9 | Keynes 's own policies have often been misrepresented : in the 1930s , for example , he was well aware of the structural problems of British industry , and did not believe that unemployment could be reduced much below 12 per cent . |
| 10 | It is Davie 's contention that this view is quite wrong : there are a great many outstandingly talented British poets , including Charles Tomlinson , C H Sisson , Elaine Feinstein and others ( Davie , as distinguished a poet as any of his subjects , modestly excludes his own work ) who do not answer to this description , and one purpose of Under Briggflats is to claim for them the attention they have often been denied ; in some cases , indeed , to rescue them from scandalous neglect . |
| 11 | In an extraordinary passage towards the end of the book , amplified in discussion at Marxism 90 in a debate specifically convened to discuss Modernism and Postmodernism , Callinicos described his experience of walking around an art gallery : ‘ I have often been struck by the tedium that overcomes one while walking through a gallery of twentieth-century painting arranged in chronological order as one moves from the excitement of the early part of the century to the desperate and all too frequently sterile iconoclasm of recent artists ' ( p. 161 ) . |
| 12 | Both Amis and Eliot can be considered seasoned disapprovers , and it is probable that Amis shares the other writer 's distaste for the biographical critic , whose activities may be responsibly conducted , and are generally acknowledged to have been successful at times , but have often been reckoned to fail . |
| 13 | Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century working class wives have often been characterised as fatalistic in their attitudes towards childbirth . |
| 14 | Allegations that Mr Gandhi or members of his family received large sums have often been heard on opposition hustings , but not a shred of evidence exists that his hands dipped anywhere near the till . |
| 15 | Moreover , the fundamental social structures and traditional land-management practices of many indigenous populations have often been dismissed as more or less irrelevant to modern-day needs . |
| 16 | In archaeological literature , goods imported in small quantities have often been studied under the general term of ‘ prestige goods ’ , and , as such , control over these resources appears to have been a major factor in the rise and fall of early social hierarchies ( Friedman and Rowlands 1977 ) . |
| 17 | However , direction and centralization , as Dunleavy and Rhodes ( 1987 , p. 26 ) warn , is not synonymous with control , as is well illustrated in the financial sphere where interventions have often been met by the development of evasion strategies by local authorities . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | For example , schools can ask Compact companies to provide Work Experience placements and classroom resources which will challenge gender stereotyping with relation to vocational opportunities ; young women have often been placed in engineering or construction companies , while young men have been placed in work which has traditionally been associated with young women . |
| 21 | Slogans have often been daubed on the walls of his constituency office in Smithdown Road , Wavertree . |
| 22 | The patriarchal structures of psychoanalytic theory have often been defended on the grounds that they only describe the current customs of a patriarchal society . |
| 23 | ‘ Groups such as the GC have often been assisted by sympathetic groups , and it is not necessarily the case that the whole construction of the bomb was Libyan and that Libya was responsible for designing it . ’ |
| 24 | The unions representing the museum warders , which in the past wielded much power , have often been regarded as an insurmountable obstacle to such a reform of the museums , but the trades union movement in general is much enfeebled at present , and other recent government decrees enforcing the mobility of public sector workers are expected to favour Ronchey 's policy . |
| 25 | Turbulent flows have often been regarded as the most important yet least understood set of phenomena of fluid dynamics . |
| 26 | This more psychoanalytical explanation may seem far-fetched , but it is important to realize that feline terms have often been given some sort of sexual connotation ( sex kittens , pussy as slang for female genitals , and cathouse for brothel ) . |
| 27 | The two aims of increasing productivity and redistribution that have permeated agrarian thinking have often been seen as competing rather than complementary . |
| 28 | As most of us know , in the public perception these causes have often been seen as clashing . |
| 29 | Darwin 's views on reproduction or ‘ generation ’ have often been ignored because they bear no resemblance to the modern theory of Mendelian genetics . |
| 30 | The better off within the working class have often been referred to as a labour aristocracy , though the term has been used differently by various social scientists . |