Example sentences of "[is] often [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Point Three : ‘ I suspect this ( those silly ‘ positive ’ electrons again ) is about as accurate as Aspen 's often repeated claims that a soft vacuum creates a soft sound and a hard vacuum creates a hard sound . ’ |
| 2 | So a big issue about whether how well we 're placed with regard to America and Japan and so on is how well placed are we to bring about this educational step , and I think we 're probably about as well placed as anybody else , certainly we have n't made some of the mistakes that other people have made , we have n't had a very big investment in what 's often called computer assisted instruction , which I think is rather limited . |
| 3 | ‘ Power ’ is defined as an ability to influence policy outcomes ( see Dahl 's often quoted definition in Ch. |
| 4 | A former colleague at Holbein 's often spent nights on the town with Gilbey . |
| 5 | This is often called charisma and it is the power of personality . |
| 6 | When I write of consciousness I shall mean what is often called self-consciousness , rather than awareness of sensations or perceptions . |
| 7 | Piscis Australis and Corona Australis may be Piscis Austrinus and Corona Austrinus respectively ; Scorpius is often called Scorpio . |
| 8 | This kind of analysis is often called ABC |
| 9 | Role-playing was crucial to preserve what is often called tatemae , defined by one author as ‘ the presentation of an appropriate face for any particular situation ’ . |
| 10 | Sucker top growth is often called briar in the case of roses , after the name by which the wild rose was known , and following the old practice of using rooted briar stems dug out of hedgerows for budding and grafting — at one time this was one of the chief occupations of gypsies , who would ‘ hawk ’ them by the bundle around less reputable nurseries . |
| 11 | Some writers on intonation claim that the intonation pattern starting at a fairly high pitch , with a gradual dropping down of pitch during the utterance , is the most basic , normal , ‘ unmarked ’ intonation pattern ; this movement is often called declination . |
| 12 | What is often called public ‘ ( mis ) understanding ’ of scientific knowledge ( eg about technological risks ) thus may be more to do with public judgements about the credibility of the institutions which control that knowledge , or with the pragmatic translation of scientific information . |
| 13 | On a European reading tour to flog his new collection of poems , Les Murray has demonstrated why he is often called Australia 's best poet . |
| 14 | It is often called Ramsey pricing , after Frank Ramsey who first flamed this ( or , rather , a similar ) problem in 1928 . |
| 15 | The process by which such behaviour arises is often called kin selection . |
| 16 | Task training is often called operator training or industrial training . |
| 17 | This mode of explanation , by reference to external factors ( especially causes and functions ) , is often called functionalism ( see egg . |
| 18 | The kind of associative learning shown by rats and pigeons in these experiments is often called conditioning . |
| 19 | This is often called zero based budgeting . |
| 20 | Simplest procedure is often to employ law agents for the purpose , writing to them some such letter as this : Messrs Scrivener & Tipstaff , Law Agents . |
| 21 | It is often given solo passages to play , and its tone is so intrinsically striking that entirely unaccompanied phrases are not infrequently allotted to it . |
| 22 | Even if the mahogany comes from other countries , such as the Philippines , they claim the trade causes serious environmental damage and is often taking place illegally . |
| 23 | This property is often termed surfactancy . |
| 24 | The temperature at which an inverse solubility occurs is often termed cloud point . |