Example sentences of "[noun prp] [is] often [verb] [prep] " 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 | Shorthorns and Highlands also helped in the nineteenth-century improvements , and today the Salers is often crossed with the Charolais . |
| 3 | Freud is often referred to as the grandfather of psychoanalysis , and his research and theories changed the way we think about ourselves . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This first main stage of Gothic architecture in England is often likened to the springtime of the style . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Firstly , the UK is often accused of intransigence in relation to the growth of EC expenditure . |
| 10 | Jesus is often described in the Gospels as ‘ having compassion ’ on people . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Carlton Palmer is often bracketed with Batty , in fact most neutral observers ( not me ) would possibly prefer Palmer . |
| 13 | The life of Brian is often portrayed as a complex one . |
| 14 | Murrell is often viewed as the group 's fifth member . |
| 15 | LEN is often used with a FOR … |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ Rob 's often spoken about you , and I 'm so pleased you could come . |
| 18 | Japan is often cited as the prime example of a successful industrial policy playing a key role in the dynamism of accumulation . |
| 19 | The embodiment of the new Europe is often said to be Mikhail Gorbachev . |
| 20 | Chapman is often condemned as the instigator of this decline : he ‘ invented ’ the stopper centre-half , it is said , and so fathered the growth of negative , defensive football . |
| 21 | OPEC is often cast as a super-villain , holding the world economy to ransom for political motives and disrupting an otherwise smooth pattern of growth . |
| 22 | Of the British playwrights , Pinter is often thought to be on the edges of ‘ absurdism ’ and you could also read N.F. Simpson 's One Way Pendulum and Cresta Run . |
| 23 | Los Angeles is often thought of as being the creation of the motor car . |