Example sentences of "be often taken to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the Scarman Report is often taken to be the central text which argues for a link between ‘ social conditions ’ and ‘ disorder ’ , the terms of the debate were by no means set by Scarman . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In syntactic theory , the verb is often taken to be the head of the sentence , but for our purposes , as we shall see , there are reasons for casting the subject in this role . |
| 4 | Like many elite theorists who came after him , Pareto is peculiarly ambiguous about the concept ‘ governing elite , which is often taken to be his most important contribution to sociology . |
| 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 . |