Example sentences of "[noun pl] is often [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is quite feasible that band members will have contributed to the composition of songs in different amounts , so the income received from the band 's songs is often split to reflect this . |
| 2 | The development of the role of the British state in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is often portrayed as the establishment of ‘ the welfare state ’ . |
| 3 | One which is too large to be housed conveniently between one pair of covers is often split into two , four , six , eight or ten volumes each separately bound . |
| 4 | A search through many alternative solutions is often required . |
| 5 | A search through many alternative solutions is often required . |
| 6 | Dislike of party lists is often fortified by dark suspicions about the quality of the candidates they supposedly include . |
| 7 | Respect for young readers is often expressed by working with them as distinct from working for them ; asking them rather than telling them . |
| 8 | The cost of enteric outbreaks is often underestimated , and both this and the need to extend the scope of monitoring to include patients in community-based smaller homes or nursing homes with contracted beds was discussed by Murdoch ( 1990 ) . |
| 9 | The layout of shops is often standardised , to create an easily identified image . |
| 10 | LINEAR REGRESSION — For practical reasons , the relationship between two variables is often described by a linear model , in the form of Y=A+BX ( where Y and X are the dependent and independent variables , respectively , A is a constant and B is the regression coefficient ) . |
| 11 | Debt , as experienced by clients is often seen as an aspect of another problem . |
| 12 | Political culture in mainland European countries is often marked by sheer apathy and disinterest , and plans for European union exploit this . |
| 13 | In other areas such as the public libraries ‘ Greater use of library services by ethnic minority communities is often facilitated by the employment of ethnic minority staff . |
| 14 | As a result , knowledge about women 's experiences is often derived indirectly from studies which describe household patterns of income , expenditure and consumption . |
| 15 | In today 's accountant-led brewing industry the destiny of individual pubs is often decided in remote boardrooms by managers answerable only to corporate dogmas and next year 's profit forecasts . |
| 16 | Whether an animal is tasting or smelling its food may be difficult to determine , however , for the distinction between the two senses is often blurred . |
| 17 | The standard of care and skill owed by directors is often described as a subjective one . |
| 18 | The obligation of directors to account for profits made as a result of abusing ( in the sense of taking advantage of ) their position as directors is often described as the principle that directors must not make a secret profit . |
| 19 | Some scholars follow him , but the step certainly carried offerings , and the style of the building-sculptures is often felt too early for that date . |
| 20 | Milton 's prompt offer of assistance , however , had deflected the criticism from the Argyll party itself , and Mrs. Mary happily was able to report that those who were once Sir James Campbell 's friends ‘ continues firm in their good wishes to my Chief and Lord Milton , those two healths is often drunk without naming their Member ’ . |
| 21 | Spending on current health needs is often constrained by the serving of financial commitments taken on in the past to secure basic health resources . |
| 22 | Participation in loans by other banks is often influenced by which bank is the syndicate leader . |
| 23 | The place of marketing in libraries is often misjudged , however , particularly because the popular concept of marketing is that which applies to commercial and profit-making organizations . |
| 24 | The proper field of women psychologists is often assumed to be far from the heights of psychological theory . |
| 25 | In fact many institutions express this as a recommendation , albeit a strong one where the commitment is obligatory , and averaging over two or three years is often permitted to allow for varying circumstances . |
| 26 | The cost of preserving historic buildings is often presented as a massive burden to the taxpayer . |
| 27 | It is not just the situation of the accounting which is important in stories of this sort , for , although the telling of exciting stories is often used to enliven boring work , the moral of these particular action stories is crucial to their accounting . |
| 28 | This transhumance to distant resources is often thought of only in connection with more primitive and foreign communities , but it was certainly common in Anglo-Saxon and medieval times and must have been in earlier periods as well ( Figs. 11 , 59 and 93 ) . |
| 29 | Although accommodation between the two cultural traditions is often achieved , the conflicts provoked have also been intense . |
| 30 | The role of the media as information providers is often overlooked by those who emphasize their overtly political functions . |