Example sentences of "have often been " in BNC.
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| 1 | A more mundane project for a survey writer is to scan Western art , which has often been attempted in series of books , many of them , as Roger Fry 's comments implied , by German historians . |
| 2 | Poetry has often been a form of self-pity and a means of self-advancement , and it has often pretended otherwise : Kundera 's book rumbles such pretence , as in the comedy he stages of an embassy of poets to a college of policemen and a debate there about the aesthetic of the socialist love-poem . |
| 3 | Investment in these has often been minimal — which , in the equation of pub conservation , has been a benign force for preserving many of our best traditional pubs . |
| 4 | But the conventional gesture ‘ to spin' has often been used in ballet . |
| 5 | Although the option of US military intervention has often been canvassed , it has always officially been discounted . |
| 6 | Speelman with the white pieces has often been accused of having a rather wimpish opening repertoire , and on this occasion he gained nothing from the advantage of the first move . |
| 7 | The local parish council has often been in the hands of a group leading the area into decline . |
| 8 | She has often been criticised for not doing , or doing imperfectly , things she was not trying to do . |
| 9 | On the other hand , since nearly 80 per cent of the nation were illiterate in early NEP , consisting of a disorganized and fragmented peasantry , it has often been assumed that the actions of this class have been both unreflective and ineffective . |
| 10 | The relationship between this passage and the ‘ There 's no telephones ’ passage of ‘ Fragment of an Agon ’ is clear , and has often been indicated . |
| 11 | He suggests that blacks have been ‘ at one and the same time both more accepting of and more hostile towards homosexuality ’ , and that the hostility has often been extreme — as in the case of Eldridge Cleaver 's notorious attack on James Baldwin ( Altman , Homosexual Oppression , esp . |
| 12 | Her own policy agenda , as King notes , has often been separate from that of the Cabinet or Conservative party . |
| 13 | The movement between the two has often been cyclical , with one style breeding a reaction in favour of the other . |
| 14 | Laing has often been accused of being a workaholic himself , but he denies it . |
| 15 | However , such favoured treatment has often been restricted to individuals from tribes linked to the government of the day . |
| 16 | While the truly indigenous private sector has been assisted in various ways to play a greater role in the national economy , this has often been at the expense of immigrant communities , who have rights of citizenship based on birth . |
| 17 | When these ‘ stages ’ have been used to identify societies outside Europe the result has often been misleading . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It has often been noted that while barbarians fight with hatchets , civilised men fight with gossip . |
| 20 | Dowty 's three-pronged attack in areas of high technology where profit has often been elusive is proceeding better than the interim results suggest . |
| 21 | As has often been the case , it is the artists who are the forerunners of fashion , and fifty years later the world and his wife craved for Windermere . |
| 22 | The NMFS , the US government agency charged with administering the MMPA , has often been accused by environmentalists of being in the pocket of the tuna industry . |
| 23 | It is , of course , precisely the concern with such matters , the concern with ‘ method ’ and the nature of ‘ natural philosophy ’ that has often been the topic of discussion in previous chapters . |
| 24 | The severity of this rule has been the more acutely felt because the existence of a partnership , which needs no special form for its creation , has often been inferred — less often , it is true , in recent years than formerly — from the fact of the receipt by a person of a share of the profits of a business . |
| 25 | Dickens has often been criticised for his portrayal of dying children ; John Carey describes him as ‘ a manufacturer of model children , pious little monsters , moribund and adult . ’ |
| 26 | It was also of course a source of female power by virtue of the fact that anything that threatens also wields power — a theme which has often been picked by other contributors to this volume . |
| 27 | For instance , it has often been thought that the progress of a military campaign , such as the invasions of the Germanic peoples into the northern Roman empire of the third and fourth centuries , could be plotted from the locations of hoards , or that areas with large numbers of hoards must have been relatively rich compared with other areas . |
| 28 | If the traffic in emigrants was almost totally from the British Isles to America , the exchange in religious influences has often been seen as going the other way , from America to Britain . |
| 29 | It has often been said — indeed I have said it myself — that the importance of the central dogma is that it provides a molecular explanation for Weismann 's theory of the independence of germ line and soma . |
| 30 | In the great temple of Osiris at Abydos the tangible sense of sanctity has often been noted . |