Example sentences of "[conj] be often [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Life , as it is lived in classrooms and on the terraces , has almost none of the characteristics of anarchy and impulsiveness that are often attributed to it . |
| 2 | ‘ NEARLY man ’ is an overused term in sport , a label that is often attached to anyone who has come remotely near to making an impact in their chosen vocation before failing to reach the exalted heights expected of them . |
| 3 | Flushes of the face and a flushed face — a false kind of plethora that is often confined to well described circular patches on the cheeks . |
| 4 | Proportional representation in Parliament might translate into disproportionate power in government in a way that would make the established first-past-the-post inequalities look rather more fair than is often seen to be the case . |
| 5 | The warp and weft are the basic constituents of all textiles , and are often referred to as the " foundation " of a rug . |
| 6 | Like the reports of the NAO , the reports of the Commission receive wide attention and are often referred to in the media . |
| 7 | Many birds eat seeds and are often referred to as seed predators . |
| 8 | The sows do not have enough room to turn round , or move more than one step forward and one step back , and are often tethered to the ground by a girth strap or an iron neck collar . |
| 9 | This takes on an added significance when it is remembered that geriatrics and the terminally ill are regarded as the failures of the health service and are often consigned to the young and inexperienced who , as one doctor recently put it , ‘ do strive very officiously to keep people alive because they are interested scientifically and they want to use every method they can as part of their training ’ . |
| 10 | Together , most of the bodies lost ground in the fifteenth century , and were often forced to ‘ appropriate ’ neighbouring parish churches in order to swell their incomes from the tithes due from the laity ; this frequently became a source of bitter dispute locally , and lay patronage shifted away to the parish churches in the fifteenth century . |
| 11 | The phase diagram for such systems , when the solvent is poor , is depicted by area A in figure 8.8 , where the critical temperature T c occurs near the maximum of the cloud-point curve and is often referred to as the upper critical solution temperature ( UCST ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Infrequently , a refractory pouchitis ( RP ) presents with certain clinical , endoscopic , and pathological features resembling Crohn 's disease and is often ascribed to misdiagnosis of the initial colitis . |
| 14 | ‘ Great Expectations ’ was one of his last three novels and was published in 1861 , and is often considered to be his greatest novel . |
| 15 | Fabrics are not always given a particular name but are often referred to just by the fibre content , e.g. , cotton or polyester print . |