Example sentences of "[is] often [adj] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're desperate for storage space it 's often possible to build units right around a window so that the window acquires a recessed effect and becomes an essential part of the arrangement . |
| 2 | Instead , it is often simpler to make use of open-ended or indefinite contracts , the same contracts as are applied to other , " permanent " members of staff . |
| 3 | Therefore it is often preferable to select materials that do not have such a tight-knit structure ; when appropriate , the teacher can extend the enquiries and discoveries with these along the lines of the structured material . |
| 4 | For this reason it is often unnecessary to disinfect saucepans , roasting trays and the like as they are disinfected as an automatic part of the cooking process . |
| 5 | Bile duct stricturing after laparoscopic cholecystectomy is often due to clip mis or displacement . |
| 6 | It is often appropriate to give time for spontaneous prayers of thanks from individuals in the congregation . |
| 7 | Although the Yerkes-Dodson law provides an additional prediction which can be tested , it suffers firstly from the problem that it is often impossible to define task difficulty a priori and secondly that even when this is done successfully it is very hard to be sure that task difficulty does not itself affect arousal . |
| 8 | Although the rates on GIBs do tend to lag behind general market rates , fast action is often necessary to take advantage of opportunities — when interest rates fall , issues can be withdrawn without any notice , and replaced by a new issue offering a much lower return . |
| 9 | It is often necessary to confine answers to either metric ( Example 95 ) or Imperial ( Example 96 ) units as appropriate . |
| 10 | Apportioning costs and entitlements in an oil or gas field is often necessary to settle matters between the participants in a unitised project . |
| 11 | In cases concerning children it is often necessary to subjugate justice to the adults to the interests of the children . |
| 12 | Machine detergents : Comparative costing is a little more difficult as two or more chemicals are involved , such as detergent and rinse additive , and it is often necessary to compare powders with liquids . |
| 13 | Many aspects of the site , including dating , are revealed by its finds , and it is often necessary to compare finds with those discovered elsewhere . |
| 14 | Because the antisemitism of the extreme right raises such questions about the future of antisemitism , it is often necessary to pay attention to small extremist groups , which in themselves possess little political importance . |
| 15 | When winning the lost for Christ it is often necessary to rebuke sin . |
| 16 | It is often possible to effect change by apparently recommending the continuation or intensification of interactions that are at the root of family problems . |
| 17 | Conversation with adults may lead children towards sorting out straight edges or corners , and with the large floor puzzles it is often possible to match pieces by colour or pattern . |
| 18 | Within sets of pictures and patterns to match , it is often possible to develop games where the matching is not merely one-to-one but a complete set of a kind is collected instead , e.g. Happy Families . |
| 19 | It is often possible to identify situations which immediately precede anxiety attacks of this sort , and so the patient is forewarned and can take preventive action . |
| 20 | Although often a marginal need in food environments , where hygiene regulations require the use of head gear , it is often cheaper to use safety helmets which can be wiped clean rather than incur laundry costs from the use of linen caps . |
| 21 | In this situation , it is often cheaper to hire labour on the open market when needed than to maintain workers and their families permanently on the estate . |
| 22 | As ‘ number-one woman ’ in your husband 's life you are in a strong position , and can afford to be very generous to her , especially in the all important matter of making sure that she is often able to spend time quite alone with her son . |
| 23 | Be aware of the proper treatment as it is now possible to halve the mortality so that it is often inappropriate to leave people at home . |
| 24 | The threat of enforcement is often sufficient to secure payment . |
| 25 | The grammatical and semantic context of presentation of a word is often sufficient to identify words , and in the context : The deep sea fisherman found a shar£ there is no uncertainty , unless the sentence continues , as in : The deep sea fisherman found a shar£ knife . |
| 26 | It is often difficult to disentangle cause and effect . |
| 27 | Molecular biology is often difficult to recommend text books for because of its multidisciplinary nature and rapid developments . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , it is often difficult to get agents to attend these productions . |
| 29 | It must be remembered that it is often difficult to get people to express themselves freely , that there is a tendency in any survey for interviewees to say what they think they are expected to say , and that individuals frequently find it hard to express subjective views on an aspect of their life which they might never have consciously considered before . |
| 30 | The Commission points out that it is often difficult to attribute responsibility , especially when damage is the cumulative result of activities undertaken by many parties . |