Example sentences of "[noun prp] be often [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Northamptonshire is often referred to as the County of ‘ Spires and Squires ’ , but village churches often have towers . |
| 2 | Freud is often referred to as the grandfather of psychoanalysis , and his research and theories changed the way we think about ourselves . |
| 3 | This first main stage of Gothic architecture in England is often likened to the springtime of the style . |
| 4 | Wordsworth is often considered to be cold , egotistical and self-sufficient , but what he writes about here is the warmth of a stranger 's greeting and how it increased his pleasure in the sunset . |
| 5 | The embodiment of the new Europe is often said to be Mikhail Gorbachev . |
| 6 | Of the British playwrights , Pinter is often thought to be on the edges of ‘ absurdism ’ and you could also read N.F. Simpson 's One Way Pendulum and Cresta Run . |