Example sentences of "[am/are] often [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence , objective budgets are often called output or programme budgets . |
| 2 | Larvae of butterflies and moths are called caterpillars ; larvae of flies are often called maggots . |
| 3 | Such structural components are often called objects , and one approach is to combine them with the logical objects we have just described into one uniform mechanism . |
| 4 | These bodies are often called company councils , employee councils , advisory councils as well as works councils and as yet are far removed from the works councils elsewhere in Europe . |
| 5 | Apple Snails are often called Ampullaria gigas or sometimes A. cuprina ; which , if either , is correct is unsure . |
| 6 | This top level of the tree is often described as the root index of the tree , while the lower-level index items are equivalent to the branches of the tree , and the records are often called leaves or nodes . |
| 7 | Both its character and also its uses are , however , rather more ambiguous and diverse than those of the foreign workers in Europe , those who are often called guest workers to emphasise their seemingly temporary role . |
| 8 | To add to the confusion , perhaps , really , I think it 's important to distinguish between single chip microcomputers and the sort of microcomputers that erm people imagine have keyboards and screens and things , personal computers , which are often called microcomputers and quite rightly . |
| 9 | A file arranged as in Fig. 8.1 has considerable advantages for the retrieval of records that meet some request based on a number of separate criteria which are often called record attributes or descriptors . |
| 10 | Such inverted commas are often called SCARE QUOTES , and are used especially in philosophically-inspired criticism which is sceptical about the customary senses we give to words . |
| 11 | It was the German optician Joseph von Fraunhofer who first studied the Sun 's spectrum in detail , in 1814 , which is why the dark lines — properly termed absorption lines — are often called Fraunhofer lines . |
| 12 | A kind of intermediary synthesis of information before its eventual distillation into the monograph form , they contain extensive references to books , reports , periodical articles , etc. , and are often given titles such as Advances in … or Progress in … . |
| 13 | In contemporary sociology , particularly in studies of working-class life , we are often given passages which are enclosed in quotation marks . |
| 14 | Unlike previous operating system releases , which are often handcrafted patchworks of technology , Solaris is an assembly of working , tested and quality-checked components , Bourne declares , and the thing undergoes some 40,000 tests . |
| 15 | Clairvoyants and mediums are often rechristened mind-readers , especially by those who do not believe in a spirit-world . |
| 16 | Children in primary school are often told stories from the Old Testament . |
| 17 | The group discussions ( Appendix II ) , which concentrated on people who it has been suggested might face difficulty getting credit because their backgrounds might not find favour with lenders , again showed very little sign that even ‘ problem ’ customers are often refused credit which they try to get . |