Example sentences of "often been [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Questions of theoretical base or methodological perspective have often been subsumed by or channelled into the construction of acceptable written examinations . |
| 2 | The attraction of shells has often been enhanced by attributing to them symbolic meanings suggested by more or less fanciful resemblances . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I would like to talk to you now about what is being done today , which has often been inspired by you . |
| 5 | Sensationalist stories in the tabloids about his life and activities have often been followed by curt retractions . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | The decline of the Anglican Church as a purveyor of religion has often been seen by historians as related to the rise of Methodism , while positive aspects have hardly been noted . |
| 8 | It has often been precipitated by a period of considerable exposure to cold , especially very cold dry weather and then ill the same day , that is soon after the exposure . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This difficulty in distinguishing the cognitive style of the highly creative from that of the psychotic has also often been noted by others . |
| 12 | A general bias in favour of spouses who come from nearby — both spatially and socially — has often been noted by anthropologists ( Fortes , 1962 ) . |
| 13 | However in all of these fields there was a still older tradition of the free market and elements of this were present in early strands of competition in both telecoms and radio ; these , however had often been eradicated by the mid-twentieth century . |
| 14 | This idea has often been ridiculed by anthropologists who point out that there is no record or suggestion that there ever was , or ever could be , a stage of total sharing and total freedom of access by everybody at any time to anything . |
| 15 | Again , the geographical mobility of labour — or lack of it — has often been determined by an inadequate supply of a range of new social overhead capital , particularly of housing . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Elsewhere in the island most of these cottages have degenerated into cowsheds , and the traditional thatched roof has often been replaced by corrugated galvanized iron . |
| 19 | Where in the past unions used to pursue claims on behalf of employees , the decline in union membership has now often been replaced by an employee-based legal expenses insurance , offering a valuable source not only of work but also of funding . |
| 20 | Organic models of nature had often been sustained by analogies between microcosm and macrocosm , between man as an organism and the rest of creation . |
| 21 | The problems which they confront in bringing up their children have too often been exacerbated by the interventions of those in the helping professions . |
| 22 | In the modern world , democracy has often been perceived by liberals as a threat or potential threat to individual freedom , and there have been many warnings about the tyranny of the majority and the tyranny of public opinion . |
| 23 | Iran expressed strong reservations about some aspects of the draft , and a number of other governments , among them China , Pakistan and several Arab countries , also hinted that they might not sign the treaty , the product of 24 years of protracted negotiations which had often been deadlocked by Cold War rivalry . |
| 24 | Inevitably , though , some people missed the point entirely and as a result they 've often been tarred by the indiscriminate brush of ‘ gothic rock ’ . |
| 25 | Firm judgments of the cases he has investigated have often been accompanied by hard-hitting comments about the problems his office has encountered . |
| 26 | Our research confirms that , to the degree that new entry-level social service jobs have been created , these have not often been accompanied by the development of opportunities for career advancement for the incumbents . |
| 27 | Attempts at privatisation , designed to push SOEs on to the global bandwagon , have often been accompanied by an easing of equity limitations in other sectors . |
| 28 | Many of these institutions had in their histories as further education colleges operated with strong hierarchical traditions , and these structures had often been accompanied by very authoritarian behaviour by their principals . |
| 29 | Roxburgh 's efforts on Scotland 's behalf have often been accompanied by his rivals conveniently falling on occasions when they need to remain upright . |
| 30 | In numerous policy areas ( such as smoke control , comprehensive education , selling council houses ) central government has often been frustrated by local authorities . |