Example sentences of "[pron] [is] often [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is often called Ramsey pricing , after Frank Ramsey who first flamed this ( or , rather , a similar ) problem in 1928 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | When I write of consciousness I shall mean what is often called self-consciousness , rather than awareness of sensations or perceptions . |
| 7 | 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 . |