Example sentences of "often been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason for doing this should now be a little clearer : although democracy has often been equated with a system of government , or recently even more narrowly with a method of choosing a government , too much stress on government diverts attention from one of the most constant aspirations behind the idea of democracy — the desire to bridge , or even to abolish , the gap between government and the governed , state and society , which is taken for granted in so much conventional political thinking . |
| 2 | Questions of theoretical base or methodological perspective have often been subsumed by or channelled into the construction of acceptable written examinations . |
| 3 | Slogans have often been daubed on the walls of his constituency office in Smithdown Road , Wavertree . |
| 4 | The attraction of shells has often been enhanced by attributing to them symbolic meanings suggested by more or less fanciful resemblances . |
| 5 | The left , consistent with its primary language capacity , is sequential and analytic in its style and has often been regarded as the rational half , responsible for the organisation and expression of conscious thought . |
| 6 | TRENT REZNOR ( for he , and not a proper band as such , constitutes Nine Inch Nails ) has often been regarded as the poor , weedy , commercial relation of Al Jourgenson and Jim ‘ Foetus ’ Thirlwell when it comes to unlistenable industrial hardcore . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Though the Constitution on Revelation at Vatican II has often been regarded as the major landmark in Catholic biblical studies , the real turning point had occurred with Divino Afflante Spiritu two decades earlier . |
| 9 | It is smaller and cooler than the Sun , but is not too unlike it , and has often been regarded as a possible planetary centre . |
| 10 | The pride in the job which has often been regarded as the hallmark of the rural worker was therefore not always derived from sheer altruism . |
| 11 | Turbulent flows have often been regarded as the most important yet least understood set of phenomena of fluid dynamics . |
| 12 | Of course Red Indian ( Native American ) women have often been kissed in movies by cowboys and soldiers , but how do we think a six-foot-three-inch Masai , almost naked , kissing a French woman will play ? |
| 13 | ‘ Starter schemes ’ or ‘ shell-housing ’ , ready plastered-out but not finished , have often been built on this basis , for example in Ribble Valley District , some Devon districts and in Suffolk Coastal District . |
| 14 | The low-lying meadows , the Whistles , now skirted by Victoria Avenue , have often been flooded in winter . |
| 15 | This question has often been answered with artists ' impressions , but never with direct measurements . |
| 16 | This system of racial stratification has often been explained in terms of the supposed genetically based inferiority of blacks . |
| 17 | The movements themselves are quite poetic and have often been likened to clouds floating in the sky . |
| 18 | Well as an association , we naturally get ourselves involved with many other aspects of the university activities in that erm both the students are applicants of ours and come and talk to us about projects which they may like to see emerge , and other departments of the university , the music department etc. , sometimes find that our knowledge of the area , or certain aspects of some of the schemes that we 're operating , coincide with what they 're trying to do and it turns out to be that campuses like this are often useful places for residencies and artists will come and take up residency in a university for a period of time , and that 's often been exploited by the Association . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I would like to talk to you now about what is being done today , which has often been inspired by you . |
| 21 | Sensationalist stories in the tabloids about his life and activities have often been followed by curt retractions . |
| 22 | Traditionally , housing sites have often been named after local water such as Bishop 's Wharf overlooking the River Ouse in York . |
| 23 | The umpire procedure has often been relied on as an argument for a reference being an arbitration rather than an instance of expert determination ( or , in the older cases , a " valuation " ) but the courts have not seen the umpire procedure as an important factor , and the involvement of an umpire does not turn a reference to an expert into an arbitration . |
| 24 | Present day historians use preserved records to produce a picture of past societies , but such records have often been kept in an ad hoc way , thus limiting the use of the information . |
| 25 | The patriarchal structures of psychoanalytic theory have often been defended on the grounds that they only describe the current customs of a patriarchal society . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 27 | Juan Gris has often been cited as the most orthodox or ‘ pure ’ Cubist ; taking over from where the eager Picasso left off , and refining and enriching the latter 's artistic legacy . |
| 28 | This has been the case particularly for Marxist and neo-Marxist sociologists , since the growth of the middle class has often been cited as evidence against Marx 's theory . |
| 29 | Thus floating has often been adopted as a last resort when a system of fixed exchange rates has collapsed , as was the case in 1973 . |
| 30 | 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 . |