Example sentences of "is often [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is often called charisma and it is the power of personality . |
| 2 | When I write of consciousness I shall mean what is often called self-consciousness , rather than awareness of sensations or perceptions . |
| 3 | Sucker top growth is often called briar in the case of roses , after the name by which the wild rose was known , and following the old practice of using rooted briar stems dug out of hedgerows for budding and grafting — at one time this was one of the chief occupations of gypsies , who would ‘ hawk ’ them by the bundle around less reputable nurseries . |
| 4 | Some writers on intonation claim that the intonation pattern starting at a fairly high pitch , with a gradual dropping down of pitch during the utterance , is the most basic , normal , ‘ unmarked ’ intonation pattern ; this movement is often called declination . |
| 5 | What is often called public ‘ ( mis ) understanding ’ of scientific knowledge ( eg about technological risks ) thus may be more to do with public judgements about the credibility of the institutions which control that knowledge , or with the pragmatic translation of scientific information . |
| 6 | Task training is often called operator training or industrial training . |
| 7 | This mode of explanation , by reference to external factors ( especially causes and functions ) , is often called functionalism ( see egg . |
| 8 | The kind of associative learning shown by rats and pigeons in these experiments is often called conditioning . |
| 9 | This is often called zero based budgeting . |
| 10 | Simplest procedure is often to employ law agents for the purpose , writing to them some such letter as this : Messrs Scrivener & Tipstaff , Law Agents . |
| 11 | It is often given solo passages to play , and its tone is so intrinsically striking that entirely unaccompanied phrases are not infrequently allotted to it . |
| 12 | Even if the mahogany comes from other countries , such as the Philippines , they claim the trade causes serious environmental damage and is often taking place illegally . |
| 13 | This property is often termed surfactancy . |
| 14 | The temperature at which an inverse solubility occurs is often termed cloud point . |