Example sentences of "[noun] have often been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marxists have often been reticent on these questions . |
| 2 | Writers like Saunders ( 1984 , 1986 ) have pointed out the problems of structuralism , but in their own work have often been guilty of endorsing profoundly capital logic accounts of social process . |
| 3 | The disagreements , or even lack of communication , between , for instance , Hegelians , Marxists , phenomenologists and Thomists have often been deep . |
| 4 | Productivity-enhancing research and development in many lesser developed countries have often been harmful , where they have been accessible to farmers of those areas . |
| 5 | In other studies , investigators have often been able to assume that they know the lexical input to commonly occurring vowel variables such as ( e ) and ( a ) and also that all the lexical items counted have the much the same potential for variation ( that is , the direction of variation will be consistent throughout ) . |
| 6 | British governments have often been feeble ; Israel 's often decisive , even fierce . |
| 7 | From a theoretical point of view , social psychologists have often been unhappy in dealing with cognitive ambivalence . |
| 8 | And if they have been on the market the terms have often been unreasonable , with little attempt made to advertise them . |
| 9 | Environmentally it was reasoned that the consequences of State control have often been unpalatable : where were the beautiful cities that had been promised ? |
| 10 | Philosophers have often been content to assign to the mind features that they are unwilling to ascribe to the physical world . |
| 11 | Perhaps partly as a result of this , present approaches to treatment have often been empirical . |
| 12 | There is a definite air of mystery around The Black Dog — helped along by the fact that their records have often been near-impossible to find . |
| 13 | Literary giants have often been prime subjects for portraiture and George Bernard Shaw was no exception . |
| 14 | Literary giants have often been prime subjects for portraiture and George Bernard Shaw was no exception . |
| 15 | The activities of both large transnational and national companies as well as small-farmer settlers on the northern frontiers of settlement have often been disastrous to the long-term productivity of the land , but have gone on unchecked ( Barbira-Scazzocchio 1980 ) . |
| 16 | In the past , the courts have often been hostile to exclusion clauses , particularly those drawn in wide terms which seek to negate all liabilities of the party relying on the clause . |
| 17 | Outside Scotland and Wales politicians have often been able to be singularly insensitive to local issues . |
| 18 | Where there has been serious political conflict , schoolgirls have often been involved in protests and boycotts . |