Example sentences of "[is] often [verb] to " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | This kind of art 's often referred to as minimal art , which helps , you know , like most stables there 's a quite way of referring to stuff , and indeed very often this kind of art relates to very simple forms , which just one colour , or perhaps no colour if it 's a piece of wood for instance , or a large canvass covered with just one colour , a monochrome canvas — you referred to monochromes earlier . |
| 2 | She 's often likened to Cookson , and deservedly so . |
| 3 | For these women , regular 2 in 1 's often add to the problem , over-conditioning the hair to leave it looking lank and lifeless or stripping the hair of its natural oils , leaving it dry and brittle . |
| 4 | But when it comes to ensuring that public bodies act reasonably and within their powers , it is often felt to be much less clear how the law ought to be enforced . |
| 5 | The right to park is often limited to " private " motor vehicles . |
| 6 | Reference is often made to Britain 's honourable and proud tradition of welcoming refugees , but in those days they consisted mainly of persecuted individuals . |
| 7 | The passage states : ’ Reference is often made to the regulators by name . |
| 8 | In using DCFs , reference is often made to NPV . |
| 9 | The concept of a loss leader is often applied to internal price differentials . |
| 10 | Knowledge of word structure is often applied to the results from the character recognition module . |
| 11 | I think the inadequate yardstick of ‘ O ’ level is often applied to us to see whether schools that practice this sort of establishment are in fact succeeding , and they are succeeding again and again and again by getting better results than the Grammar Schools did , but by much more important criteria , by the criteria of teaching skills and values . |
| 12 | Mr Darling said private companies were able to take ‘ strategic decisions ’ when pitching for contracts , an avenue which is often blocked to government agencies . |
| 13 | Frequent whitewashing or repapering , like John Barton 's ‘ clean stencilled pattern ’ , is often alluded to , no doubt because it made damp and derelict rooms look fresh and dry but that is the way that they remain for the reader . |
| 14 | Most of the youngsters know him by name and he is often called to Hendon police station when they get into trouble with the law . |
| 15 | They were never importunate , never servile ; they never tried to lure Europeans into the kind of patron-client relationship which is often assumed to be vital to the functioning of the colonial psyche but which many Englishmen in fact found more annoying than gratifying . |
| 16 | The proper field of women psychologists is often assumed to be far from the heights of psychological theory . |
| 17 | However , a separate proposal was made by Easterbrook ( 1959 ) which describes an underlying mechanism which is often assumed to be responsible for both relationships . |
| 18 | This friendly , affectionate behaviour is often extended to humans . |
| 19 | This first main stage of Gothic architecture in England is often likened to the springtime of the style . |
| 20 | The wife is the means through which a man transmits his lineage to his son ; she is often compared to a field in which her husband sows his seed for the continuation of his lineage . |
| 21 | The two sets of metaphors have persisted side by side , not only in the West since the ancient Greeks , but in other civilizations as well ( Chinese ming ‘ bright ’ is the ordinary word for the enlightenment of the sage , which is often compared to a mirror reflecting things exactly as they are , while te ‘ get ’ is used of insight ; ‘ I 've got it ! ’ says the disciple to his master as he catches on to the Tao ) . |
| 22 | Language is often compared to a code , and we have also used this analogy in earlier chapters . |
| 23 | The density of a gas or vapour is often compared to that of hydrogen and expressed as the relative vapour density |
| 24 | We have a perfect right to use such areas in the responsible pursuit of our hobby , yet this right is often denied to us , usually by manipulative application of bye- laws . |
| 25 | Strauss 's annotations of Hofmannsthal 's libretto are discussed in detail , as is the harmonic structure of the opera which Gilliam identifies as tonal , thus supporting others ' views that Strauss 's next opera , Der Rosenkavalier , was not such a change of tack as it is often represented to be . |
| 26 | Ben Nevis is not the killer mountain it is often represented to be in the popular press . |
| 27 | The quality of ‘ capture ’ which is often said to be the major aim of the department becomes another ‘ lip service ’ to the outside world , although once again the symbolic content of this truth is multi-vocal . |
| 28 | The embodiment of the new Europe is often said to be Mikhail Gorbachev . |
| 29 | This , then , is often said to be another difference between the Near Eastern and the Indian traditions . |
| 30 | Built in 1814 , it is 72 feet high , and is often said to be the tallest windmill in the country , though that honour properly belongs to a tower mill at Sutton ( q.v. ) in Norfolk . |