Example sentences of "it [is] often [art] [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | very often men abusing women and yet , you know , when you 're looking at erm attitudes to gay and lesbian people it 's often the case that they 're , you know , somehow thought of as , as suspect . |
| 2 | Erm , it 's quite frankly about abusing women and it 's often the case that in the eighteenth century one 's sexuality was considered to begin much earlier than we do now . |
| 3 | Um I think um where I 've seen things that er discussed under the heading of child sex abuse erm er it 's often the case that um y'know maybe in some families you find the situation where there 's a daughter who 's being abused by the father and then when the brother gets old enough to take an interest in sexuality , he joins in as well sort of thing and it 's er y'know it 's like there 's two blokes abusing the girl . |
| 4 | Okay , so it 's often the anarchist that 's erm as far as we got . |
| 5 | The average adult spends up to 300 hours a year in the bathroom , yet surprisingly , it 's often the room that receives the least attention . |
| 6 | Unfortunately it is often the case that writers do not allow themselves to be so free in autobiographical disclosures as to say exactly how they felt on seeing some work of art . |
| 7 | Although former stables and cow-houses may offer opportunities for conversion into dwellings , it is often the case that they were too cheaply and impermanently built and are too small to provide a structure which is easily adapted into a house . |
| 8 | I have already drawn attention to the power there is in weakness and it is often the case that God is able to take ordinary weak things of this world and make them powerful for him . |
| 9 | Although one might suppose that the creation of a new party offers attractive opportunities for people previously excluded from local élites to establish themselves as leaders , it is often the case that such people do not obviously possess the right qualities . |
| 10 | Although its connection with a political party , and the fact that some of its ministers and elders are leading figures in the DUP , provides some people with a good ulterior motive to participate in the life of the Church , it is often the case that people have more than one motive for church involvement . |
| 11 | It is often the case that one of these methods can be combined with documentary or historical information , or two or more of the methods or approaches can be combined . |
| 12 | But it is often the case that , by finding a transformation that will promote equality of spread or linearity , it is possible to achieve the first three at the same time . |
| 13 | These processes are often interlinked and although they will be discussed separately here it is often the case that measures to combat one problem may lead directly to another , or that desertification results from soil erosion and/or salinisation . |
| 14 | Changing Shape It is often the case that many students grow in height or change their shape in some way during lessons , so it is not a good idea to buy shoes or clothes until nearing the end of the course of lessons . |
| 15 | It is often the case that this is not offset by the relatively small environmental loss experienced along the already very busy distributor road by a relatively small number of people as a result of the addition of a relatively small number of vehicles . |
| 16 | It is often the case that children seem able to recall past lives ( if that is what they are ) more easily than adults . |
| 17 | However , it is often the case that shareholders do not participate actively in this process . |
| 18 | It is often the case that the highest ambitions can be born in the darkest days of defeat . |
| 19 | It is often the case that when all is going well in life , tackling a heavy job can seem a treat , whereas in times of stress a dirty footprint on a new-washed floor is the last straw . |
| 20 | It is often the case that parents experiencing management difficulties present their request for help along with a welter of problems , anxieties , complaints and sometimes mis-information that they think the listener wants to hear . |
| 21 | When non-hierarchical , uncentralized societies — like the four hunter-gatherer examples here described — are divided internally on Us/Them lines , it is often the case that gender differences define and establish social distinctions . |
| 22 | It is often the case that a letter is for the eyes of a particular person and nobody else . |
| 23 | It is often the case that a member of an organisation wishes to put views or ideas on record . |
| 24 | However , when language is used within a specific domain , it is often the case that only a subset of those senses is appropriate . |
| 25 | Where handwritten texts are at issue , it is often the case that the individual reproducing the text in a printed version has to make a considerable effort of interpretation to assign a value to some of the less legible words . |
| 26 | When the recipient is not expected to write down the details , it is often the case that the speaker repeats them sometimes several times over . |
| 27 | Even with sentences not of the form A is f(X) it is often the case that a sentence containing a hyponym unilaterally entails a parallel sentence which is identical in all respects except that it contains a superordinate in place of the hyponym : |
| 28 | In everyday language , it is often the case that an apparently unproblematic ‘ observation statement ’ is found to be false when an expectation is disappointed , due to the falsity of some theory presupposed in the assertion of the observation statement . |
| 29 | It is often the case that the specializing groups are of type ( i ) , with formal membership , but they have also been of types ( ii ) and ( iii ) . |
| 30 | Similarly , it is often the case that knowledge-flows between the users and the producers of an innovation are particularly rich , and , consequently , if particular users interact with several suppliers , then these suppliers are bound to share an enormous amount of common information even in the absence of spillovers between them ( see von Hippel , 1988 ) . |