Example sentences of "it often " in BNC.
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| 1 | Literary criticism is doing here what it often does : it has gone for the faults and , in so doing , inverted the truth . |
| 2 | Over-ruddering causes extra drag and an extra loss of height or speed , and it often leads to stalling in the turn . |
| 3 | In a field landing it often happens that on the final approach or even during the hold off you realise that the first part of the field is not as smooth as it is further along . |
| 4 | In addition , it often seems that police culture possesses a dramaturgical or melodramatic inflexion , as the increasingly autocratic operational style is brought to bear in contests with new generations of dissenting workers , political radicals , and the largely dispossessed criminal underclass . |
| 5 | Whether inherited or picked up from an antique shop , it often holds a sentimental value — but what is it really worth ? |
| 6 | Broadcasters do try to offer advice , but it often goes right over the heads of enquirers . |
| 7 | When the council receives a planning application it often consults people who might be affected such as neighbours , other residents and community groups . |
| 8 | Wengen 's skiing is extensive , but for piste skiers is mostly easy ; Murren is very limited , with one spectacular descent from the famous Schilthorn ; Zermatt has something for everyone and lots for experts , but to reach its full potential needs better snow than it often receives ; Saas Fee has an excellent glacier , but again needs abundant snow to provide much more than that — in particular , to satisfy better skiers . |
| 9 | On such occasions it often seems foolish to intervene , for nature has a way of eliminating stragglers . |
| 10 | It often pays the artist to try and put a ceiling figure on these expenses . |
| 11 | Misleading as it often is , the notion of the repressed homosexual does accurately describe some people . |
| 12 | So while homophobia may sometimes originate in and , as it circulates socially , reconnect with repressed desire , the latter can not be homophobia 's necessary condition since it often circulates without it , and in a socio-political form which is more rapid , more widespread , more economical , and possibly more destructive . |
| 13 | Camp is not the same as gender inversion , but it often connects with it , and with good reason . |
| 14 | A range of issues recur throughout Genet 's book ; I concentrate on masculinity only because of its problematic centrality in contemporary considerations of race , homosexuality , and gender more generally , and because Genet 's reflections on it often make other recent writing about it seem by comparison the simplistic and reductive pronouncements of a banal gender politics . |
| 15 | The support they give may sometimes be formal , but it is never sterile or mechanical ( as it often is in industrial societies ) . |
| 16 | In fact it often acts just as a damper , the first hurdle workers have to overcome . |
| 17 | The large urban or dockside warehouse is a building type strongly related to the grander grain and textile mills , not only because it often stored the raw materials or products processed by these latter buildings , but also in its constructional composition . |
| 18 | It often involves the modern mind 's entering into old concepts for which there is no modern equivalent . |
| 19 | It often turns into a ‘ hat party ’ with friends sitting around wearing all sorts of styles while they have a drink . ’ |
| 20 | Some have it , some do n't — and it often makes the difference between success and failure . |
| 21 | The number of cases is not recorded ; the number of deaths is officially put at 855 , and may have been much higher , since diarrhoea is so common there that it often goes unreported . |
| 22 | It often takes a 75% majority to change those rules : possible , but difficult . |
| 23 | He had discussed it often with Helen and both had agreed that such frankness was a necessary act of truth-telling between them . |
| 24 | ‘ It often happens [ as in dreams and fevers ] that we perceive things that do not exist . ’ |
| 25 | It often appears in General Synod with some unspoken assumptions about the text of the Bible . |
| 26 | She had heard people say it often enough — she had even said it herself — but she had not realized what it would really be like . |
| 27 | Medical science was not yet equipped for investigation into near-death experiences , to which we shall refer in the final chapter ; almost the only form of resuscitation with which doctors were familiar was that following near-fatal immersion in water , accompanied , as it often is , by a rapid replay of the victim 's life . |
| 28 | This of course does not deny the grief that will be expressed , but it often acts as a strong trigger for its positive expression in a healthy way . |
| 29 | In the course of such conversations it often happens that the bereaved person is not only troubled by thoughts that they might be going mad but by the notion that they are very bad . |
| 30 | She has whole passages of Aurora Leigh by heart , or so it often seems . ’ |