Example sentences of "[noun] is often [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Religion is often castigated for encouraging an attitude of dependence upon authority or tradition , which is at loggerheads with the attitude of taking responsibility for oneself . |
| 2 | Northamptonshire is often referred to as the County of ‘ Spires and Squires ’ , but village churches often have towers . |
| 3 | This remedy is often selected on its emotional picture : |
| 4 | It is quite feasible that band members will have contributed to the composition of songs in different amounts , so the income received from the band 's songs is often split to reflect this . |
| 5 | During the last decade evidence has been accumulating that fluid secretion in the small intestine is often evoked via stimulation of the enteric nervous system ( ENS ) . |
| 6 | ( 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 . |
| 7 | These diaries do not always follow conventional order , in that chronology is often ignored ; but then she elaborates later on questions of importance . |
| 8 | These days the deal is often struck at the time of divorce ; and usually it 's that the house goes to your wife , for good . |
| 9 | The development of the role of the British state in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is often portrayed as the establishment of ‘ the welfare state ’ . |
| 10 | The environments are relatively constant , selective pressures are more or less identifiable , the amount of isolation is often known , and the entire set of interacting species is known . |
| 11 | One which is too large to be housed conveniently between one pair of covers is often split into two , four , six , eight or ten volumes each separately bound . |
| 12 | However guarded such advice might be , this reasoning is often expanded by lay people and used to justify increasingly heavy and more regular drinking . |
| 13 | A search through many alternative solutions is often required . |
| 14 | A search through many alternative solutions is often required . |
| 15 | She is a woman whose ring is often kissed . |
| 16 | A mixture of equal quantities of raw linseed oil and substitute turps is often rubbed into pine prior to staining . |
| 17 | The fact that there are Arabs in the anti-Iraq coalition is often adduced by supporters of that coalition as evidence of Arab approval of the war . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , it is not clear from current Marxist criticism and theory , which in the rainbow coalition is often buttressed by Lacanian ideas of the decentred self , whether it is prepared to accept any form at all of a personal , subjective or affective response , or whether all that must wait until after the revolution . |
| 19 | Dislike of party lists is often fortified by dark suspicions about the quality of the candidates they supposedly include . |
| 20 | The emergence of the modernist novel of consciousness is often described in terms of a shift of emphasis from ‘ telling ’ to ‘ showing ’ — but showing in this context is a metaphor . |
| 21 | Football is often described as a surrogate religion . |
| 22 | Whilst exercise is regularly advocated as essential to a healthy heart this recommendation is often misunderstood . |
| 23 | Shooting is often proposed as a method of controlling the fox population . |
| 24 | Respect for young readers is often expressed by working with them as distinct from working for them ; asking them rather than telling them . |
| 25 | The irrational spectre of money illusion is often seen to lie behind the complex facade of income-expenditure models derived from the system . |
| 26 | The result is that , when relationships break down , women 's disappointment is often accompanied by extraordinary , uncomprehending bitterness . |
| 27 | Yet she can not find an entirely satisfactory alternative , for the life of the spinster is often portrayed in stark terms . |
| 28 | One of her sententious entries reads : ‘ Tactlessness is often taken for sincerity , and sincerity is in turn often taken for a compliment . |
| 29 | Secondly , and for obvious reasons , the size of a library 's weeding programme is often determined by the amount of shelf space available . |
| 30 | The cost of enteric outbreaks is often underestimated , and both this and the need to extend the scope of monitoring to include patients in community-based smaller homes or nursing homes with contracted beds was discussed by Murdoch ( 1990 ) . |