Example sentences of "[be] often [verb] [that] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reception staff at hotels are often instructed that where they feel cautious about a prospective guest 's ability to pay the final bill , payment shall be requested in advance . |
| 2 | It is often assumed that because of the vulnerable status of many refugees , such a mass influx places an immense burden on the receiving area 's economy . |
| 3 | If is often said that as people get older they care less what other people think , but it has never been so true as in the last 25 years , when women who were brought up to propitiate the more powerful sex gradually realised that it was no longer necessary — or , at least , not always necessary — to do so . |
| 4 | It is often said that as one market slows down another opens up and all is not doom and gloom . |
| 5 | It is often said that because the sample was so unrepresentative of humanity as a whole , Freud 's generalizations about man are unjustified . |
| 6 | It is often noticed that when someone has a close relative die , it seems to be not unusual that the family pet dies shortly afterwards . |
| 7 | However , it is often argued that when barriers are taken down and teachers start to work in teams developing courses and assessing pupils ' responses , real improvements begin to occur . |
| 8 | It is often argued that if a child learned how to recode unfamiliar letter strings — printed words not previously encountered — into a phonological form , this would permit reading to be parasitic on an already established ability to access the semantics of a word from its phonology . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , it is often argued that if the same sum were derived from indirect taxation , then any net disincentive effect that did occur would be that much smaller . |