Example sentences of "[noun pl] have often [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marxists have often been reticent on these questions . |
| 2 | In the end , Matza 's argument is not so much an attack on correctionalism as an assertion of the not very original point that , whatever your starting assumption , it is best to keep your mind open to all possibilities ( although he was right to draw attention to the fact that correctionalists had often been guilty of not doing so ) . |
| 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 | The research which has been conducted on their parenting and its outcomes for their children has often been flawed and equivocal . |
| 10 | We found that researchers had often been guilty of assuming male dominance . |
| 11 | Philosophers have often been content to assign to the mind features that they are unwilling to ascribe to the physical world . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 16 | Outside Scotland and Wales politicians have often been able to be singularly insensitive to local issues . |
| 17 | Where there has been serious political conflict , schoolgirls have often been involved in protests and boycotts . |