Example sentences of "as [is] often [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may , at the time when it was built , have been intended as a final resting-place for the priestesses of the Knossos Labyrinth , rather than , as is often assumed , for the Knossian kings . |
| 2 | Briefly , the available evidence shows that the benefit they confer on the various socio-economic groups changes according to government policies and they do not always give greater benefits to those living in council accommodation , as is often assumed . |
| 3 | Founded in 1764 , the Club was not ( as is often assumed ) Johnson 's brain-child : Boswell 's Life makes it clear that the idea came from Joshua Reynolds ; and once a week they met at seven in the evening , in the Turk 's Head , a Soho hostelry . |
| 4 | One may choose to adopt a broadly aesthetic approach to texts , as is often done , perfectly appropriately , but one then encounters what seems to me a potentially disabling contradiction . |
| 5 | The fact that , for Moore , the value of a thing follows necessarily from its intrinsic nature , from what it is like , makes it a little misleading to say , as is often done , that it is supposed to be always an open question whether something characterised in terms of its natural , or metaphysical , properties is good or not , and that this is his chief reason for regarding good as indefinable . |
| 6 | These distinctions make it important that we do not confuse , as is often done in the linguistic and philosophical literature , the categories of addressee and hearer . |
| 7 | Nor , as is often believed , do they remove the need for traditional print technology . |
| 8 | Nor , as is often believed , do they remove the need for traditional print technology . |
| 9 | If trusts , as is often said , depended on the testator 's intention and little else , then to launch into a discussion of the wordings they employed may well seem perverse . |
| 10 | Because it , cos people were you know erm as is often said generally of of a of a general staffs of armies . |
| 11 | However , Nietzsche 's first editors ( 1895 ) , then his sister ( 1897 ) , and subsequently the world at large have asserted that the scale of this last revision was substantial and , specifically-that of the book 's eventual twenty-five sections , he added at this time the final six ( 20–25 ) , which are partly ( though not , as is often said , largely ) concerned with Wagner . " |
| 12 | But if everything is political , as is often proclaimed , then nothing is ; one can invoke Saussure in the assertion that meaning is a matter of differentiation . |
| 13 | For , as is often pointed out by critics of cognitive psychology ( e.g. Heil 1981 ) , there is always in principle more than one model capable of matching observed behaviour . |
| 14 | There is no sense in which the symptoms are imaginary or ‘ all in the mind ’ as is often implied in both medical and casual use . |
| 15 | First of all , it is not obvious to me that the speech strategies needed for typically male and female roles are so totally different and non-overlapping as is often implied . |
| 16 | In his search for loyal men to reassert royal authority in the aftermath of Buckingham 's rebellion Richard did not , as is often implied , turn to northerners as such . |
| 17 | In his search for loyal men to reassert royal authority in the aftermath of Buckingham 's rebellion Richard did not , as is often implied , turn to northerners as such . |
| 18 | There is no need for a warning or consent , however , in the case of the firm 's employees who deal through the firm ( as is often required for personal account dealings ) if they are informed that they will not be treated as private customers . |
| 19 | Therapeutic practice can not , so it is argued , itself be used to verify the claims of psychoanalytic theories , as is often claimed by analysts . |
| 20 | But her novels are not nearly so remote from the realities of her time as is often claimed . |
| 21 | The MacMahon Act did not , as is often suggested , trigger Attlee 's decision in January 1947 to go ahead with the development of the British atomic bomb . |
| 22 | Nor is it possible for the sufferer to ‘ snap out of it ’ as is often suggested with varying degrees of tactfulness . |
| 23 | This has nothing to do with the chemicals all being derived from oil and coal ( see p 166 ) as is often suggested . |
| 24 | Yet for many years gerontologists , in the many disciplines that make up gerontology , have been arguing that the gloom is overstressed , that future prospects need not be so bad as is often suggested . |
| 25 | If it 's true , as is often suggested , that there are no new stories , then one of the things that makes a piece of drama original is the angle — or the frame . |
| 26 | His explanation is not , as is often supposed , the fact that in Britain multi-employer agreements failed to determine actual earnings levels in the workplace , or that employers have come to prefer independent negotiations . |
| 27 | Appadurai ( 1986 ) provides a survey of some of the relevant literature , pointing out that in some respects commodities are not necessarily as divorced from wider cultural considerations as is often supposed . |
| 28 | Private property , as an institution , effects not a closer relationship between people and objects , as is often thought , but a greater separation than was hitherto possible . |