Example sentences of "have often " in BNC.
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| 1 | A more mundane project for a survey writer is to scan Western art , which has often been attempted in series of books , many of them , as Roger Fry 's comments implied , by German historians . |
| 2 | Poetry has often been a form of self-pity and a means of self-advancement , and it has often pretended otherwise : Kundera 's book rumbles such pretence , as in the comedy he stages of an embassy of poets to a college of policemen and a debate there about the aesthetic of the socialist love-poem . |
| 3 | Poetry has often been a form of self-pity and a means of self-advancement , and it has often pretended otherwise : Kundera 's book rumbles such pretence , as in the comedy he stages of an embassy of poets to a college of policemen and a debate there about the aesthetic of the socialist love-poem . |
| 4 | Investment in these has often been minimal — which , in the equation of pub conservation , has been a benign force for preserving many of our best traditional pubs . |
| 5 | But the conventional gesture ‘ to spin' has often been used in ballet . |
| 6 | Although the option of US military intervention has often been canvassed , it has always officially been discounted . |
| 7 | Labour , with its reasonable and historic fears of parties within the party , has often rejected the idea of separate black and Asian sections . |
| 8 | Speelman with the white pieces has often been accused of having a rather wimpish opening repertoire , and on this occasion he gained nothing from the advantage of the first move . |
| 9 | But regulatory and structural upheavals in the City ahead of and after the ‘ big bang ’ in the British securities markets of 1986 have sparked a revolution within the life insurance industry that the Pearl has often found difficult to keep up with . |
| 10 | The local parish council has often been in the hands of a group leading the area into decline . |
| 11 | She has often been criticised for not doing , or doing imperfectly , things she was not trying to do . |
| 12 | Over the last two centuries minority unrest has often stemmed from a thwarted intelligentsia impatient for power and capable of perceiving its nationality 's relative backwardness . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The relationship between this passage and the ‘ There 's no telephones ’ passage of ‘ Fragment of an Agon ’ is clear , and has often been indicated . |
| 15 | So it is futile to try to define the homosexual sensibility according to the standards of conventional sensibility : first because the latter has sought to exclude the former ; second because , in retaliation , the former has often worked to undermine the latter and , in the process , challenged the very nature of the aesthetic , fashioning in the process new and sometimes oppositional mutations of it . |
| 16 | He suggests that blacks have been ‘ at one and the same time both more accepting of and more hostile towards homosexuality ’ , and that the hostility has often been extreme — as in the case of Eldridge Cleaver 's notorious attack on James Baldwin ( Altman , Homosexual Oppression , esp . |
| 17 | Her own policy agenda , as King notes , has often been separate from that of the Cabinet or Conservative party . |
| 18 | The movement between the two has often been cyclical , with one style breeding a reaction in favour of the other . |
| 19 | Laing has often been accused of being a workaholic himself , but he denies it . |
| 20 | However , such favoured treatment has often been restricted to individuals from tribes linked to the government of the day . |
| 21 | While the truly indigenous private sector has been assisted in various ways to play a greater role in the national economy , this has often been at the expense of immigrant communities , who have rights of citizenship based on birth . |
| 22 | When these ‘ stages ’ have been used to identify societies outside Europe the result has often been misleading . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In fact , although there are both surreal and baroque elements in his work , Gironella prefers to call it mestizo ’ , a term which has often had negative , racist overtones but which has been acclaimed in this century , especially in Mexico , as a positive value , indeed the distinguishing feature of Mexican culture : the rich and fruitful mixture of the European with the indigenous American . |
| 25 | It has often been noted that while barbarians fight with hatchets , civilised men fight with gossip . |
| 26 | Mr Hurd has no trouble stressing the need for a liberalisation of European markets in which Britain has often led the way . |
| 27 | Mr Hurd has no trouble stressing the need for a liberalisation of European markets in which Britain has often led the way . |
| 28 | It seems fair to claim this attractive book as a product of Wales because although the author lives in Eastern England and has observed wheatears in many far-flung places , the foundation studies were made on the Pembrokeshire island of Skokholm and Peter Conder has often returned there to keep fresh the memory of his pioneering researches . |
| 29 | It seems fair to claim this attractive book as a product of Wales because although the author lives in eastern England and has observed wheatears in many far-flung places , the foundation studies were made on the Pembrokeshire island of Skokholm and Peter Conder has often returned there to keep fresh the memory of his pioneering researches . |
| 30 | Dowty 's three-pronged attack in areas of high technology where profit has often been elusive is proceeding better than the interim results suggest . |