Example sentences of "[noun prp] [is] often [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Northamptonshire is often referred to as the County of ‘ Spires and Squires ’ , but village churches often have towers . |
| 2 | Even the work published in English by people like Norman , Halliday , Moore or Steven is often ignored or treated as misguided . |
| 3 | ‘ Power ’ is defined as an ability to influence policy outcomes ( see Dahl 's often quoted definition in Ch. |
| 4 | Mexico is often depicted as being characterised by ‘ charrismo ’ , the phenomenon of trade unions being controlled by the state , in order to keep wages down in the service of capital accumulation and accelerated economic growth . |
| 5 | Shorthorns and Highlands also helped in the nineteenth-century improvements , and today the Salers is often crossed with the Charolais . |
| 6 | The , the importance of this , is that Freud is often said to have been a Hobbesian thinker , in the sense that , er without necessarily being directly influenced by Hobbes , he took a similar , a similar kind of view , or at least , so it is said . |
| 7 | Freud is often referred to as the grandfather of psychoanalysis , and his research and theories changed the way we think about ourselves . |
| 8 | Most medical and nursing staff are poorly trained , although performance has improved with the recent addition of resuscitation officers to most hospitals , and CPR is often instituted inappropriately . |
| 9 | In fact , the Princess of Wales — a woman Selina is often compared with — must wish she was able to keep the lid on her private life as tightly as Selina has . |
| 10 | This first main stage of Gothic architecture in England is often likened to the springtime of the style . |
| 11 | Indeed , the extension of the Sale of Goods Bill 1892 to Scotland is often portrayed as being " hasty " and " ill-considered " ( see T B Smith , Property Problems in Sale ( 1979 ) ) . |
| 12 | It would seem that in Capadocea they were even converted to Christianity for , in that region , St Christopher is often depicted with a dog 's head . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Since Caliban is often performed in the modern theatre as if he were a later version of Thersites , we tend to expect him to be a prose-speaker . |
| 15 | The player with whom Albert Harry is often mentioned is Peter Simpson , that prolific goal-scorer of the first half of the 1930s . |
| 16 | Firstly , the UK is often accused of intransigence in relation to the growth of EC expenditure . |
| 17 | Jesus is often described in the Gospels as ‘ having compassion ’ on people . |
| 18 | As Bowen ( 1985 ) has pointed out , the contribution of I. A. Richards is often ignored , yet it is his prescription for the ‘ close reading ’ of texts which is the basis of most school and university teaching of English today . |
| 19 | Planning Control as now known in the United Kingdom is often thought to have started with the Town and Country Planning Act 1947 and its Scottish and Northern Ireland equivalents . |
| 20 | Ophelia is often ignored for audition material simply because she does n't seem to have much in the way of a sustained speech until she goes mad . |
| 21 | Piscis Australis and Corona Australis may be Piscis Austrinus and Corona Austrinus respectively ; Scorpius is often called Scorpio . |
| 22 | For this reason , Locke is often called the father of modern empiricism . |
| 23 | Carlton Palmer is often bracketed with Batty , in fact most neutral observers ( not me ) would possibly prefer Palmer . |
| 24 | The life of Brian is often portrayed as a complex one . |
| 25 | A former colleague at Holbein 's often spent nights on the town with Gilbey . |
| 26 | Murrell is often viewed as the group 's fifth member . |
| 27 | LEN is often used with a FOR … |
| 28 | Point Three : ‘ I suspect this ( those silly ‘ positive ’ electrons again ) is about as accurate as Aspen 's often repeated claims that a soft vacuum creates a soft sound and a hard vacuum creates a hard sound . ’ |
| 29 | The creator god Khnum is often depicted modelling man and Ka together on his potter 's wheel as through the Ka was a double of clone . |
| 30 | Although induced polymorphic VT/VF is often regarded as a non-specific response in patients with syncope or recent myocardial infarction , there is some evidence that , in cardiac arrest survivors , polymorphic VT/VF may be a valid endpoint by which to evaluate the efficacy of therapeutic interventions . |