Example sentences of "[vb -s] often be [verb] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Juan Gris has often been cited as the most orthodox or ‘ pure ’ Cubist ; taking over from where the eager Picasso left off , and refining and enriching the latter 's artistic legacy . |
| 2 | The left , consistent with its primary language capacity , is sequential and analytic in its style and has often been regarded as the rational half , responsible for the organisation and expression of conscious thought . |
| 3 | TRENT REZNOR ( for he , and not a proper band as such , constitutes Nine Inch Nails ) has often been regarded as the poor , weedy , commercial relation of Al Jourgenson and Jim ‘ Foetus ’ Thirlwell when it comes to unlistenable industrial hardcore . |
| 4 | Though the Constitution on Revelation at Vatican II has often been regarded as the major landmark in Catholic biblical studies , the real turning point had occurred with Divino Afflante Spiritu two decades earlier . |
| 5 | The pride in the job which has often been regarded as the hallmark of the rural worker was therefore not always derived from sheer altruism . |
| 6 | An advocate of Copernican astronomy , an infinite universe , and a plurality of worlds , Bruno has often been seen as the archetypal scientific martyr . |
| 7 | Cream 's ‘ fraternal individualism ’ , for instance , is easily metamorphosed into ‘ elitist exhibitionism ’ ( musically , this is the development from Cream to what has often been described as the ‘ empty virtuosity ’ of many later ‘ guitar heroes ’ ) ; similarly , the ‘ thinking ’ of unpredictable extended forms , given the predictable lulling rhythms and bland timbres of Mike Oldfield , is turned into LP-length ‘ easy listening ’ ; the ‘ psychedelic sound ’ becomes exactly that : a fetishized label , isolated from the radical harmonic/rhythmic context it has in ‘ Strawberry Fields ’ , and pinned on to simple Top Ten dance tunes , as a tribute to the middle class ideology of riskless hedonism . |