Example sentences of "frequently [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When girls perform well such behaviour is frequently explained in terms of their ‘ conformity ’ , for example , they ask the right questions because … it is expected of them , not because they are bright ; they follow the rules because … they are passive and dependent , not because they are anxious to do well ; their work is neat and tidy , therefore not creative . |
| 2 | But there was a limit to what Mr Aczel , the party 's ideologist , could tolerate and the gradual thaw was frequently punctuated with repressive measures against those who fell out of line . |
| 3 | Unlike British broadcasting , radio was from the start in the hands of commercial companies , with its programmes frequently punctuated by advertisements . |
| 4 | Voice transmissions are frequently relayed on the VOR frequencies ; you should not rely on these transmissions to identify a VOR station , because they are often simultaneously relayed on other VOR 's . |
| 5 | Her husband Mervyn worked at the Swindon railway workshops for 46 years and was frequently exposed to asbestos . |
| 6 | Most frequently altered in large bowel tumours are c-Ki-ras and c-mye , c-Ki-ras , one of the family of ras oncogenes , encodes a 21kD G-protein involved in the transduction of mitogenic signals across the cell membrane . |
| 7 | Other oncogenes less frequently altered in large bowel tumours include c-src , raised in 62% of cancers ; c-myb , deleted in 9% , and c-erbB-2 , amplified in 4% . |
| 8 | A man tortured by a continual fever with exacerbations , to me appears the image of the English government , constantly disturbed by parties , and frequently altered by revolutions . ’ |
| 9 | Valium , therefore , is frequently prescribed for problems such as loneliness and marital discord , the latter interestingly considerably more evident in female than male section referrals in our study . |
| 10 | Contact lenses are less frequently prescribed for children than spectacles because physical growth is still taking place and because they are relatively more expensive . |
| 11 | Peck , though , dismisses the event as ‘ humour ’ and Justin Simpson comments : ‘ If this fable was trustworthy we could scarcely do otherwise than believe that not only was Stamford in days past frequently honoured by the presence of English Kings and Queens , but also that His Satanic Majesty occasionally hunted in the neighbourhood . ’ |
| 12 | Of course , it can be argued that the theoretical presumption of innocence in the West is frequently negated by the pressure , particularly in the lower courts , to ‘ plea bargain' , that is agree to plead guilty to a relatively minor charge and receive a relatively light sentence , rather than plead not guilty , endure a long wait for a trial ( possibly in custody ) and , if found guilty , receive a heavier sentence , although there always remains the chance of acquittal . |
| 13 | The practice has no proven agricultural benefit , although frequently justified by farmers , their Unions and the Agriculture Departments alike in spite of the evidence to the contrary . |
| 14 | In the years before the oil crisis dismissals were frequently justified by arguing that individuals did not merit tenure because they lacked commitment or because of their poor educational qualifications . |
| 15 | You can see the parallel in real life to these experiments for those children who are frequently punished for no good reason . |
| 16 | This summed up the view of many : in previous decades intellectuals were frequently punished for being politically ‘ reactionary ’ , i.e. rightists . |
| 17 | There , if they maintained their resistance , they were frequently treated with great brutality and , in a few cases , threatened with posting to the front , where they could be summarily shot . |
| 18 | Middle-ear infections are frequently treated with antibiotics and this may be the reason for the increase in non-infected glue ear ( Smyth 1984 ) . |
| 19 | There are occasional arrivals of odd specimens of Fairy Basslets which are not easily identified , and some , as in the case of Pseudanthias pulcherimus from the western Indian Ocean have male and female forms different enough to cause them to be frequently treated as separate species . |
| 20 | ‘ I ’ , ‘ me ’ or ‘ mine ’ are words that are frequently heard in the classroom , as a child proudly announces that he has ‘ built a big tower ’ or ‘ got one like that ’ , or as he asserts himself by virtue of possession , ‘ That 's mine ’ . |
| 21 | The most picturesque explanation is that US soldiers were frequently heard in Mexico during the US-Mexican war of 1848 to sing the song ‘ Green Grow the Lilacs ’ . |
| 22 | The chatter of machine gun fire is frequently heard in Srinagar after dark and the sandbagged pickets of the security forces lining Srinagar 's roads , once packed with tourists , are the liveliest centres of activity . |
| 23 | The view can be frequently heard from paid workers in the CAB that volunteers are a privileged class who can not empathise with many of the clients who come to the CAB . |
| 24 | However , in spite of such increasingly overt politicization and polarization of libraries and librarians , the level of political intrusion in library selection policy is frequently limited by the need to be practical and realistic . |
| 25 | The symbolism which these involved , and which was indeed their essence , was frequently manipulated for political purposes . |
| 26 | A bearish , messianic figure with mutton-chop whiskers , frequently clad in cowboy boots and ‘ bolo ’ tie , Asimov was stoically resigned to his own eccentricity . |
| 27 | Overall , whilst this variation undoubtedly includes examples of good assessment practice , there is also evidence that the general level of social services assessment of older people is restricted to the assessment of need for specific services , often requested by a carer , a general practitioner , or other third party , frequently undertaken by untrained ancillary staff ( Means , 1981 ; Black et al. , 1983 ; Bowl , 1986 ) . |
| 28 | Robert Pinget 's fiction is frequently inhabited by authorial personae . |
| 29 | They are frequently referred to as ‘ black bastards ’ , or some variant thereof , by young Protestant children . |
| 30 | However , one of the most important decisions he has yet to make will determine the fate of the group 's involvement in Aviemore , frequently referred to as ‘ Stakisville ’ thanks to its ownership of three hotels and the Aviemore Centre itself . |