Example sentences of "be often [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | However , a separate proposal was made by Easterbrook ( 1959 ) which describes an underlying mechanism which is often assumed to be responsible for both relationships . |
| 32 | Strauss 's annotations of Hofmannsthal 's libretto are discussed in detail , as is the harmonic structure of the opera which Gilliam identifies as tonal , thus supporting others ' views that Strauss 's next opera , Der Rosenkavalier , was not such a change of tack as it is often represented to be . |
| 33 | Ben Nevis is not the killer mountain it is often represented to be in the popular press . |
| 34 | The quality of ‘ capture ’ which is often said to be the major aim of the department becomes another ‘ lip service ’ to the outside world , although once again the symbolic content of this truth is multi-vocal . |
| 35 | The embodiment of the new Europe is often said to be Mikhail Gorbachev . |
| 36 | This , then , is often said to be another difference between the Near Eastern and the Indian traditions . |
| 37 | Built in 1814 , it is 72 feet high , and is often said to be the tallest windmill in the country , though that honour properly belongs to a tower mill at Sutton ( q.v. ) in Norfolk . |
| 38 | Beta has a B8-type spectrum , and is about 100 times as luminous as the Sun ; it is often said to be the only naked-eye star which is greenish in colour , though I have never noted this either with or without optical aid , and to me Beta always looks white . |
| 39 | The totem is often said to be an ancestor of the clan . |
| 40 | He is often said to be fixing a ‘ tariff ’ period ; and there is no harm in using that expression provided that one realises that it is the Home Secretary 's tariff , not the judges ' tariff . |
| 41 | One type suggests that it is simply the frequencies with which the separate features occur ; a ‘ prototype ’ is often said to be formed from the most commonly occurring features ( thus we form mental prototypes of dog , tree , car , and so on ) . |
| 42 | Goal displacement in the form of means becoming ends in themselves is often said to be a characteristic dysfunction of bureaucratic forms of organization . |
| 43 | Just as a player is often said to be struggling to justify a big fee . |
| 44 | A religious war is often said to be very bitter because the two sides are fighting for something that they both feel is very important . |
| 45 | The pampered town cat , by contrast , is often seen to be prowling around the house like a caged tiger . |
| 46 | To many Shetlanders this is often seen to be part of a more general shortcoming on behalf of incomers — their over-riding desire to maintain the status quo in local communities as soon as they are established there . |
| 47 | Compromise is often seen to be weak and commitment to the decision reflects that view . |
| 48 | Because of this cultural dominance it is often seen to be ‘ proper English ’ with other ways of speaking judged as inferior . |
| 49 | The emancipation of the poor and oppressed is thus made part of a civilizing process , which is often seen to be conditional on assimilating their demands to the discourses of humanism and rationalism . |
| 50 | Proportional representation in Parliament might translate into disproportionate power in government in a way that would make the established first-past-the-post inequalities look rather more fair than is often seen to be the case . |
| 51 | In arctic and alpine environments the surface is often seen to be composed of a layer of angular rock fragments commonly described by the term felsenmeer and attributed to the operation of frost weathering . |
| 52 | The state or polis was a whole , of which individuals were parts , dependent upon it and not self-sufficient , as the individual is often conceived to be in modern liberal thought . |
| 53 | The culture of an organisation is often found to be a major influence on risk management issues . |
| 54 | Wordsworth is often considered to be cold , egotistical and self-sufficient , but what he writes about here is the warmth of a stranger 's greeting and how it increased his pleasure in the sunset . |
| 55 | The existence of successful black sportsmen in Britain is not the recent phenomenon it is often considered to be , though the upsurge in the post-war years makes it appear that way . |
| 56 | Spoken discourse is often considered to be less planned and orderly , more open to intervention by the receiver . |
| 57 | ( The privately rented sector has low values for a number of reasons : it contains a larger non-married proportion , and the form of stock is often considered to be less suitable for childrearing . |
| 58 | Returning to Menard 's definition of science as ‘ the content of these [ scientific ] journals ’ , the scientific literature itself can be measured in a number of ways , and growth in literature is often considered to be concomitant with growth in the subject . |
| 59 | A random process is often considered to be the sum of a large number of small , independent processes so this reasoning is acceptable . |
| 60 | ‘ Great Expectations ’ was one of his last three novels and was published in 1861 , and is often considered to be his greatest novel . |