Example sentences of "[ex0] [is] often [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In a modern room with large windows , there is often little space for wallmounted radiators or skirting convectors .
2 Many people these days have a busy lifestyle and although they may enjoy gardening there is often little time to carry out many of the day-to-day tasks needed to keep a plot in perfect order .
3 If , however , there is no attempt to copy a pattern , there is often more appreciation of shape in whatever is made — like the four-year-old who made a triangular shape from three strips and correctly named it , whilst another boy ( 3.9 ) named the second shape ( a square ) when he added a fourth strip to the original three .
4 If you are restrained from doing something , then there is often some force that prevents you .
5 And because the comparison is between sense-units and not just words , there is often enough room for debate over whether a particular B-line is more precise than its A-line .
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