Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [be] often [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have outlined one possible approach to reading discourses , whether racist or antiracist , which suggests that what is going on in and between them may be more complex and contradictory than is often allowed . |
| 2 | Another possible implication is that into the early years of the next century fewer old people will lack kin support or would be living alone than is often assumed . |
| 3 | His own grammar and spelling may have been rather more classical than is often supposed . |
| 4 | Longer life for the individual has probably brought some gains to the community , although perhaps less than is often believed ; yet improvements in longevity in very recent years have been small and the prospects of further improvements do not , at the moment , appear very promising . |
| 5 | We shall argue that French and British policy-making differ less than is often supposed . |
| 6 | Proportional representation in Parliament might translate into disproportionate power in government in a way that would make the established first-past-the-post inequalities look rather more fair than is often seen to be the case . |
| 7 | The findings to be considered here ( and the broader body of research of which they are typical ) suggest that the link between education and occupation is much more tenuous than is often supposed and call into question many of the assumptions currently held about employers ’ attitudes to young workers and to educational standards . |
| 8 | The costs of building refurbishment may be greater than is often assumed . |
| 9 | Calls for the increased ‘ internationalization ’ of the economy , of society and of political attitudes suggest that many of the postwar changes may be less substantive than are often imagined . |
| 10 | That share is rather less extensive and exalted than is often claimed for these bodies . |
| 11 | Yet for many years gerontologists , in the many disciplines that make up gerontology , have been arguing that the gloom is overstressed , that future prospects need not be so bad as is often suggested . |
| 12 | First of all , it is not obvious to me that the speech strategies needed for typically male and female roles are so totally different and non-overlapping as is often implied . |