Example sentences of "[is] often [verb] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Even if access to data is restricted through the use of passwords when calling it up from the computer , it is often felt that data are not secure and confidentiality may be breached .
2 The objective lenses required for cathodoluminescence must have long working distances , so choice is often limited and prices high .
3 The better practice in such cases is to attempt service even after the stated time-limit : a trial or other procedural step is unlikely to follow immediately after the expiry of the time-limit , so belated service may still give the defendant a useful opportunity to intervene ; and under Article 1591 a six-month waiting period is often imposed before proceedings can be taken to the stage of a default judgment .
4 The question is often asked whether Hindus believe in many gods and goddesses .
5 This analysis does much to elucidate what is often dismissed as Nkrumah 's plunge into Communist ( or was it Fascist ? ) dictatorship .
6 It is often assumed that employers take advantage of the demand for positions where interesting work , pleasant conditions and a high degree of job satisfaction are reckoned to make up for low pay .
7 It is often assumed that winter is the most suitable time for training yet only 43% indicated that any time during winter would be suitable .
8 It is often assumed that Wordsworth himself was responsible for the fame of the area as a holiday centre , but this is only partly true .
9 In this country , it is often assumed that teachers are a law unto themselves once they are inside the classroom and that it is their professional training and sense of professional responsibility that are the chief influences on their practice .
10 However , as explained , such problems are often symptoms of deeper organisational and management problems : ‘ It is often assumed that stress is caused by too much work or tasks that are too difficult , but it is more likely to be because staff do n't have a context for what they are doing . ’
11 It is often assumed that Foucault is simply the philosopher of discontinuity , merely substituting it where previously there had been continuity ; but the discontinuous is emphasized only because so much stress is normally placed on the continuous .
12 Indeed , it is often assumed that women are the ‘ natural ’ carers , and that such work is n't quite suitable for a man .
13 In a commercial or industrial setting it is often assumed that organisations try to maximise profits as their main goal .
14 It is often assumed that clients interfere with their ulcers between treatments to ensure the community nurse will revisit and meet their need for social contact .
15 It is often assumed that techniques must be learned and practised before problems are mentioned .
16 For example , it is often assumed that multiculturalism is methodologically individualist , and reduces racism to an individual pathology of prejudice , whilst antiracism is radically holist and insists on the primacy of structural processes .
17 Postulating the presence of a generalized person in the infinitive whose position in time as support of the infinitive 's event is either coincident or subsequent to another position of this same person , at which it is often represented as support of some other event , thus leads to a more profound comprehension of the motives underlying the use of to .
18 It is often said that Godiva chocolates should not be valued in pounds , but rather in carats .
19 It is often said that Britain 's membership of the Community is good for British business , and attention is drawn to the volume of our trade with the Community .
20 For example , it is often said that testing assumes that intelligence can be quantified by a single number , as in a much-praised recent book , The Mismeasure of Man , by a palaeontologist , Stephen Jay Gould .
21 It is often said that opposites attract , but this does n't usually work with horses ; most people are happier with an animal whose temperament is similar to their own .
22 It is often said that Order 53 procedure is designed to be speedy and that cases raising significant disputes of fact are not suitable for resolution under Ord. 53 .
23 It is often said that women have greater access to housing in the public sector than men , or that housing officials tend to be more sympathetic to women .
24 It is often said that alcohol is ‘ the only little pleasure that old people have ’ , which may be true to an extent , but if drinking becomes a problem then it is for the individuals to decide how much of a pleasure drinking is , and whether they want help to stop .
25 It is often said that children have their lives before them and to die before they have had a chance to develop their personalities and lives seems particularly cruel .
26 It is often said that children pick up and learn things much quicker than adults .
27 We go further , and it is often said that God has revealed his Spirit as much in Buddhism and Hinduism as in Christianity ; indeed , as much in atheism as in theism .
28 It is often said that delegation is the art of management .
29 It is often said that Yugoslavia exports lower-quality products to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe than to the West .
30 It is often said that people are bored at school , and can not do well , because of the irrelevance of the curriculum to their own life and experience , or the life and experience they will have when they leave school .
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