Example sentences of "[det] [vb -s] often [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has often treated technology as an end in itself , and not queried its wider relationship to firm activity or weighed its contribution to performance . |
| 2 | The twentieth century has seen many horrific examples of the power of wrong thinking , and this has often turned on matters of religion . |
| 3 | They are able to pursue a ‘ global strategy ’ , and this has often involved the closure of older plants in inner-city areas , with large losses of employment and of income to the local population . |
| 4 | This has often led him to tighten monetary policy while everybody around was urging him to ease . |
| 5 | The experience of trying to force one 's perceptions into preconceived categories , and the pain and distortion that this has often led to , is now used as a basis by feminist theorists for the argument that to see feeling as ‘ contaminating ’ objective , scientific knowledge points to a distortion of conceptualisation . |
| 6 | This seems unlikely now to lead to the formal designation of the three types of universities ( 'R' for research-based , ‘ X ’ for mixed , and ‘ T ’ for teaching only ) that has been mooted , but it seems probable that in practice the university system will become more overtly stratified than before ; there has always been an element of covert stratification , although this has often related to departments rather than whole institutions . |
| 7 | Along with this has often gone a general rejection of the idea of a First Philosophy , more secure than , or prior to , the sciences , and an acceptance of the naturalistic doctrine that a philosophical account of knowledge should be permitted to use empirical information drawn from the sciences . |
| 8 | However , this has often depended on individual special projects — and on the highly committed innovators who tend to run them . |
| 9 | This has often meant having to use pliers and then replacing the staples with new ones . |
| 10 | This has often resulted in the parents themselves becoming more interested in reading , and in their becoming more aware of the problem-solving nature of the process . |
| 11 | Almost all the advocates of the confessional approach today would in fact distance themselves from the kind of RE that this has often produced in the past . |
| 12 | Failure to see the general principle that lies behind such simple , common-know edge , facts as these has often led anthropologists to write a great deal of nonsense . |
| 13 | So it is futile to try to define the homosexual sensibility according to the standards of conventional sensibility : first because the latter has sought to exclude the former ; second because , in retaliation , the former has often worked to undermine the latter and , in the process , challenged the very nature of the aesthetic , fashioning in the process new and sometimes oppositional mutations of it . |