Example sentences of "[pron] [be] often [vb pp] [adv] that " in BNC.

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1 They are often rounded , but some have a flat top , which was often placed so that the sharpest edge or point indicated the direction of the ley .
2 It is often pointed out that the long-running set of victimization data in Britain , the General Household Survey 's regular measurement of the extent of burglary victimization since 1972 , indicates that most of the increase in recorded burglary is a reporting phenomenon .
3 Economic issues are real enough and it is often pointed out that politics is about priorities .
4 It is often pointed out that higher education was centrally seen in this way in the nineteenth century , but that very different models were on offer .
5 Thus , it is often pointed out that the statistics of murder include many domestic killings , the implication being that the figures are not therefore quite as grave as they seem .
6 It is often pointed out that chemists have failed in their attempts to duplicate the spontaneous origin of life in the laboratory .
7 It is often pointed out that governments manipulate the economy to engineer booms in periods immediately preceding elections , to the detriment of the economy , often by manipulating the money supply .
8 It was often said later that it was in Switzerland that Muhammad Reza required a sympathy for aspect of democracy , and that his subsequent attempts to reconcile such notions with the governance of Iran proved to be difficult .
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