Example sentences of "[vb -s] often be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In England it has often been disputed whether there is any regional feeling and obviously there is nothing of the quasi-nationalism evident in Scotland and Wales . |
| 2 | The artificial nature of such methods has often been criticized ( e.g. , Frederickson , 1981 ) , and the benefits of face-to-face communication , where gestures can play their full part , demonstrated ( Evans and Rubin , 1979 ) . |
| 3 | In other words , the title ‘ key settlement policy ’ has often been lent to programmes devised only on very narrow cost or administrative criteria . |
| 4 | When a repeat biopsy was taken in these patients it did not affect management and this practice , which has often been followed just to satisfy some definitions of coeliac disease , should be reviewed . |
| 5 | Juan Gris has often been cited as the most orthodox or ‘ pure ’ Cubist ; taking over from where the eager Picasso left off , and refining and enriching the latter 's artistic legacy . |
| 6 | This has been the case particularly for Marxist and neo-Marxist sociologists , since the growth of the middle class has often been cited as evidence against Marx 's theory . |
| 7 | They thereby avoid a circularity of reasoning which has plagued the natural rate-NAIRU literature from its earliest days : if a sustained rise in the unemployment rate is not accompanied by an abatement of inflationary pressure , then this literature can admit of only one explanation — that NAIRU , a concept which has often been conflated with that of the natural unemployment rate , must itself have risen . |
| 8 | The reason for doing this should now be a little clearer : although democracy has often been equated with a system of government , or recently even more narrowly with a method of choosing a government , too much stress on government diverts attention from one of the most constant aspirations behind the idea of democracy — the desire to bridge , or even to abolish , the gap between government and the governed , state and society , which is taken for granted in so much conventional political thinking . |
| 9 | A crucial mistake has often been made here . |
| 10 | Guy of Lusignan was by no means the handsome fool he has often been made out to be , but his grip on the crown was precarious and the resources of his kingdom were depleted . |
| 11 | Peter Berger argues that society has often been viewed as a puppet theatre with its members portrayed as ‘ little puppets jumping about on the ends of their invisible strings , cheerfully acting out the parts that have been assigned to them ’ . |
| 12 | The umpire procedure has often been relied on as an argument for a reference being an arbitration rather than an instance of expert determination ( or , in the older cases , a " valuation " ) but the courts have not seen the umpire procedure as an important factor , and the involvement of an umpire does not turn a reference to an expert into an arbitration . |
| 13 | It has often been observed that , whilst old age is not an illness , it does bring with it an increased susceptibility to illness and disease . |
| 14 | Even within the same culture , comparative tests of intelligence are on shaky ground ; as has often been observed , all that IQ tests are good at measuring and demonstrating is the ability of individuals to pass IQ tests . |
| 15 | It has often been observed that the flint and stone industries of the Middle and early Late Pleistocene , the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic assemblages of prehistory , developed in the direction of greater comeliness as well as greater technical efficiency . |
| 16 | For example , it has often been observed ( by no means only by Marxists ) that the ideas of Beccaria — and the Enlightenment generally — were linked to the interests of the bourgeois class who were gaining in economic and political power at the time but still needed legal protection against the old ruling class , the landowning aristocracy who retained a corrupt control of the levers of state power ( Beccaria , 1963 : xxi ; Taylor et al. , 1973 : ch. 1 ) . |
| 17 | In areas of endemic haemonchosis it has often been observed that after the advent of a period of heavy rain the faecal worm egg counts of sheep infected with H. contortus drop sharply to near zero levels due to the expulsion of the major part of the adult worm burden . |
| 18 | Although the option of US military intervention has often been canvassed , it has always officially been discounted . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It has often been pointed out , and in my view with justice , that the school curriculum has in the past been overwhelmingly in the power of the universities . |
| 21 | It has often been pointed out that even if he had written nothing before this stage he would still be regarded as an important poet . |
| 22 | It has often been pointed out that in less developed societies , old people were seen as the repository of wisdom needed for daily living as well as for spiritual guidance . |
| 23 | The patients who came to Freud for psychoanalysis were , as has often been pointed out , drawn from a restricted group : namely , the upper and bourgeois classes of Central and Eastern Europe . |
| 24 | The creativity inherent in the grammar of a language has often been pointed out : an unlimited number of sentences may be produced from a finite set of elements together with rules for their combination . |
| 25 | It has often been pointed out by commentators that there is an ambiguity in Tocqueville 's discussion . |
| 26 | The validity of official statistics on suicide has often been questioned ; some critics have claimed that different national suicide rates reflect the extent to which coroners in those countries are prepared to categorize deaths as suicide , rather than real national differences in propensity to suicide . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Schüssler Fiorenza has shown in an impressive way in In Memory of Her that women 's contribution to the life of the church was not so marginal as has often been assumed . |
| 29 | It has often been assumed that these figures were simply invented , and are evidence that the Bible is historically unreliable . |
| 30 | Parental divorce has often been assumed to have deleterious effects on children . |