Example sentences of "be often [verb] [conj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Benjamin Libet of the University of California at San Francisco has been responsible for two sets of experiments which are often cited as crucial evidence in the debate about the relationship between brain and mind . |
| 2 | Such views are often condemned as blind acceptance of authority without any reason . |
| 3 | A large number of grassroot groups are keen to see community radios fulfil their vital role of helping to develop and sustain communities in areas where people are often marginalised and denied access to media which are relevant to their needs . |
| 4 | They are often told that gross over-ruddering is needed to spin , but this is not the case . |
| 5 | Conversation between strange women at the beginning of a party is often strained and this occasion proved to be no exception . |
| 6 | It is often assumed that textual discussion must be complex to be acceptable . |
| 7 | It is often said that Japanese management concentrates on the Soft S 's whilst Western management concentrates on the Hard S's . |
| 8 | It is often said that unfettered insider dealing does not hurt shareholders ; that insiders ' profits are not outsiders ' losses , but rather evidence of a more efficient allocation of resources ; Just because an investor does not make as much money on the sale of his shares as he would otherwise have done , does not make him a victim in the true sense , as nothing has been stolen from him . |
| 9 | It is often said that more damage is done inside the hangar than out ! |
| 10 | The most important ingredient in the construction stage is time but , although this is sometimes a source of worry at the beginning , in practice it is often found that this stage is less time-consuming than the planning stages . |
| 11 | This is why it is often stressed that strategic change must be supported by top managers . |
| 12 | Thus , while Richard Johnson refers to the counter-education challenge to traditional education by the student movement , and the women 's movement in the early 1970s , it is often forgotten that another site of opposition was in community-based education and action in working-class communities . |
| 13 | Indeed , it is often claimed that some family firms preferred to avoid being profit-maximisers and take a safe return from past investments . |
| 14 | It is often recommended that such work is coordinated by a ‘ key worker ’ . |
| 15 | For this reason the image was often worn as small bronze amulets , especially by children and soldiers , and it also commonly appears on buildings , as at Pompeii . |
| 16 | With regard to the first , it was often argued that Afro-Caribbean family and child-rearing patterns harmed the intellectual and educational development of black children , but the misleading assumptions about these patterns and consequences have now been effectively contested ( Cross , 1978 ; Reeves and Chevannes , 1983 ) . |
| 17 | In the post-war period , both Weber and Schumpeter 's ideas considerably influenced pluralist theory , as we noted above ( pp. 51 — 3 ) , so much so that their fundamental acceptance of elite theory patterns of argument was often ignored or lost sight of . |