Example sentences of "[vb -s] often been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Utopian thought has often been denigrated for its idealism , yet I would argue that , unlike religion , " the sigh of the oppressed creature , the heart of a heartless world … the spirit of a spiritless situation … the opium of the people " ( Marx , Contribution to the Critique of Hegel 's philosophy of Right ) — Utopian thinking represents a conscious attempt to pose historical goals for human action and is a stimulant for action and change " the amphetamine of the people " . |
| 2 | She has often been criticised for not doing , or doing imperfectly , things she was not trying to do . |
| 3 | Dickens has often been criticised for his portrayal of dying children ; John Carey describes him as ‘ a manufacturer of model children , pious little monsters , moribund and adult . ’ |
| 4 | As Philip Warner has said in The Special Air Service , the official history re-issued in an expanded edition in 1983 , the regiment ‘ has often been criticised for the high proportion of officers and N.C.O.s , as well as first-class men , which it absorbed , and the answer must invariably be that used in this way they caused far more damage to the enemy than they would have done if they had been with other units . |
| 5 | The Getty has often been criticised for having more money than sense . |
| 6 | In addition an agent or distributor has often been found for the new product , improving after sales support in the UK . |
| 7 | This season Ruggia will again be travelling everywhere with his parents , even though the closeness of their relationship has often been blamed for Ruggia 's problems in communicating with his team personnel . |