Example sentences of "[is] often [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's often put that hunting is good for the countryside that it 's about controlling foxes the scientific evidence rather puts that to pay the scientific evidence certainly indicates that fox hunting makes very little difference to control of foxes in the countryside and there is some evidence to suggest that fox hunting actually encourages more foxes to breed and that we end up with more foxes , so it seems to be self defeating in that respect . |
| 2 | It 's often felt that reading , or reading aloud , is an effective way of teaching spelling , and pupils may be advised that to improve their spelling they should read more . |
| 3 | So that 's well , before we can go in , launch into this , I mean it 's often said that erm , er , well , one of the major reasons why agricultural commodity trade has n't been included in GATT , like virtually every other er , product has been , is because governments are saying , look this is a domestic policy , it 's got nothing to do with international trade , we 're supporting our farmers , it 's a domestic policy . |
| 4 | However , just to complicate things at a very early level , it 's often observed that agricultural products have what 's called a perverse supply response , in that there 's a negative relationship between prices and output . |
| 5 | MP 's often choose uncontroversial topics for their first speech . |
| 6 | As an alternative to refusing planning permission , permission is often granted subject to conditions aimed at controlling any anticipated odour emission , in the same way as conditions are imposed to mitigate nuisance caused by noise emissions . |
| 7 | Planning approval is often granted subject to satisfactory access being provided and it is therefore essential to approach the highways department of the local authority to establish both the status quo and the effects and requirements of any proposed development . |
| 8 | Of course , the identity of a speech act , its illocutionary force as Austin calls it , is often made apparent by an explicit lexical indicator . |
| 9 | Pain is often made worse by anxiety , so lavender oil , which helps reduce anxiety , is used in conjunction with painkillers . |
| 10 | Although this book is about ideas rather than techniques , it is important to remember that progress in biology is often made possible by technical advances . |
| 11 | In large organisations the assumption of the supervisory role is often made easier by transferring staff on promotion so that they make a fresh start among strangers ; |
| 12 | As we have seen , he claims to have had glimpses only of absolute Truth and we have interpreted this to mean that he is often made aware of the need to live and act in accordance with certain ethical and religious principles and to travel in a certain spirit . |
| 13 | This is often called visual search or simply search , to distinguish it from fast forward , when you do n't see the picture . |
| 14 | Right so there , the er Chow tests statistic F , right , is Chow 's first , first test right and er E is Chow 's second test which is often called predictive failure . |
| 15 | The other , which depends on discrete features , is often called conceptual clustering . |
| 16 | The third , publishing on demand , is often called Corporate Publishing ( CEPS for short ) and is the hardest area to define . |
| 17 | This type of recognition is by definition off-line , and is often called optical character recognition ( OCR ) . |
| 18 | This method is often called depth-first search or last-in , first-out ( LIFO ) . |
| 19 | While this is often assumed axiomatic to good services , which have been removed from a local base only because of the division of labour requirements of bureaux , it is not a self-evident welfare virtue . |
| 20 | It is often observed that misogyny and homophobia go together . |
| 21 | Insomnia is a common complaint in which the sufferer has poor sleep that is often broken many times during the course of the night . |
| 22 | It is often said that chess helps broaden the mind , promoting logical thought and forward planning . |
| 23 | In these cases one of the objectives is often to enable lower rates of pay and/or fringe benefits to be paid than if the workers concerned were remunerated on scales applying to the organisation itself . |
| 24 | It is often repeated that hummingbird flowers are red , part of the ornithophilous ‘ syndrome ’ , and indeed , red does seem to be preferred by these birds . |
| 25 | A shallow and wide window is not the best proportioned , and is often placed high on a wall . |
| 26 | Okay , it is often argued that , I mean this is the principal reason why agricultural trade has n't been in the GATT negotiations , because agricultural er , protectionism has been enshrined in domestic agricultural policy , govern policy makers will say , we are protecting er , our own domestic industries right , because we , because of er , erm , deleterious effects that would be imposed , or the burdens that would be imposed on domestic agriculture if we did n't , we do n't think that the fabric of the rural society could withstand the reversion to laissez faire in agricultural goods . |
| 27 | The voice possesses neither sufficient depth nor weight , and the technique is often found wanting — literally hundreds of interfering aspirates break up the continuity between sound and text . |
| 28 | As in any ongoing business things can change ; it is often thought reasonable that at least the more general warranties should be qualified as to materiality . |
| 29 | Instead , say , of complimenting someone directly on his taste and sophistication , the Japanese practice is often to approach this particular problem indirectly , and pick out some aspect of the room which reflects the other person 's taste and sophistication and comment on that . |
| 30 | The maxim that man learns nothing from history is often proved true that the bill I said shows the government learning from history . |