Example sentences of "have often been [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason for doing this should now be a little clearer : although democracy has often been equated with a system of government , or recently even more narrowly with a method of choosing a government , too much stress on government diverts attention from one of the most constant aspirations behind the idea of democracy — the desire to bridge , or even to abolish , the gap between government and the governed , state and society , which is taken for granted in so much conventional political thinking . |
| 2 | Peter Berger argues that society has often been viewed as a puppet theatre with its members portrayed as ‘ little puppets jumping about on the ends of their invisible strings , cheerfully acting out the parts that have been assigned to them ’ . |
| 3 | It is smaller and cooler than the Sun , but is not too unlike it , and has often been regarded as a possible planetary centre . |
| 4 | It has often been precipitated by a period of considerable exposure to cold , especially very cold dry weather and then ill the same day , that is soon after the exposure . |
| 5 | Thus floating has often been adopted as a last resort when a system of fixed exchange rates has collapsed , as was the case in 1973 . |
| 6 | The rule in Rylands v. Fletcher , then , had its origins in the law of private nuisance and has often been treated as a particular species of nuisance . |
| 7 | Christian growth and education has often been seen as a job for the church , which has robbed the home of its crucial importance for its shaping of Christian character . |
| 8 | His move to Giverny in 1883 has often been seen as a turning away from the Parisian avant-garde and a retreat into the private world of his own aesthetic affairs . |
| 9 | The continued dominance of City and Civil Service elites has often been seen as a barrier to dynamism in British industry ; in fact , it has merely been one aspect of a secure and integrated dominant class , linked by kinship , ownership of wealth and distinctive patterns of education . |
| 10 | This intervention has often been seen as a nasty piece of clerical obstruction , the anonymity of Osiander 's remarks compounding the crime by deceiving the reader into believing they were by Copernicus himself . |
| 11 | It has often been seen as a necessary evil for ensuring that the conduct of those responsible for operating the organization remains within prescribed rules , regulations and legislation . |
| 12 | Since the third function has often been presented as a negative contribution to economic growth , it is also discussed in the following chapter . |
| 13 | By comparison , functionalism has often been interpreted as a form of ruling class ideology . |
| 14 | Glasgow , where one-third of the population is of Roman Catholic and Irish extraction , has often been depicted as a mini-theatre of conflict . |
| 15 | Although functionalism has often been attacked as a conservative sociological tradition , some of its terminology and certain aspects of its analysis have been appropriated by Marxist and radical theorists . |
| 16 | The concept of separate creation , which Darwin found inadequate , had often been presented as a biblical view . |
| 17 | Single mothers and teenage pregnancies have often been presented as a pressing social problem . |
| 18 | They have often been described as a brass version of the famous King 's Singers . |