Example sentences of "it [is] often [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Advantages : Maybe Babies are far more common under the age of three months than over , so it 's often a short-lived phase , connected with development rather than personality . |
| 2 | PFK TIP : It 's often a good idea to buy small = young fish which should live longer in your tank . |
| 3 | I think if you go and buy a secondhand car erm it 's often a big investment , two , three , four , five thousand pounds or even more . |
| 4 | You learn to recognise them through experience ; it 's often an indefinable something that 's lacking . |
| 5 | For the baby it 's often the best start in life ; for the mum , the best she can give to her child . |
| 6 | Cutting the mids helped knock out the troublesome frequencies , but the sound did suffer , since it 's often the mid frequencies that you need to increase at higher volumes to prevent that harsh , trebly electro-acoustic sound . |
| 7 | It 's astonishing , but it 's often the last thing couples discuss when they get married ’ , says Jane Hawksley , a counsellor for Relate in Birmingham . |
| 8 | In the second of our reports on head injury we examine how it 's often the whole family who have to learn to take one day at a time . |
| 9 | And yet , when an event for all ages is organised , it is often a great success . |
| 10 | Even when it is not it is often a good way of generating conventions . |
| 11 | It is often a good idea to write up your own notes of a disciplinary interview immediately afterwards . |
| 12 | It is often a good idea to make the positive and negative power supply conductors as thick as possible to avoid any noise or ripple being induced on the power supply lines when thin conductors could create an unwanted electrical resistance . |
| 13 | It is often a good idea to have several small aquaria instead of one larger one , as it is easier to see the animals and to study them when they are in a small volume of water : they can not swim so far or so fast . |
| 14 | It is often a good thing to be somewhat anarchic , never rigid in your opinions , and always open to new ideas if you want to be a planner . |
| 15 | It is often a good idea to use an unexpressive language . |
| 16 | Owen was an older contemporary of Forbes and Darwin , but lived far longer than either of them ( 1804–92 ) ; it is often a good idea to outlive one 's opponents , but Owen 's bête noire was Huxley ( who outlived him ) , and by 1892 the world had become Darwinian and Owen seemed like a living fossil . |
| 17 | Unless you have a particular pretty beamed or coved ceiling it is often a good idea to lower the ceiling area in a kitchen . |
| 18 | If , after taking all this into account , the drama lesson begins to go wrong , it is often a good idea to ask the children to help in analysing why . |
| 19 | It is often a good idea to remind the expert that if their report is to be relied on it must be disclosed to the other side . |
| 20 | It is often a good idea to try and get a continuing working relationship with an orthopaedic surgeon who can provide reports quickly . |
| 21 | For the pregnant girls it is often a real eye-opener to see the other girls go off , deliver their babies and come back , having survived it all . |
| 22 | Yet it is often a hidden disability , which isolates both the people who suffer from it and their families . |
| 23 | And it is often a transnational company that determines which products are manufactured or available in Mexico . |
| 24 | In fact it is often a deliberate policy of the Bank of England to create a shortage of liquidity in the economy to force discount houses to be in the Bank . |
| 25 | Such a clause is not attractive to the seller , because he loses control of the conduct of the claim of infringement , and it is often a difficult clause to persuade the buyer to accept unless there is a problem which is so well-known in a particular industry that many sellers tend to include a reservation relating to it . |
| 26 | It is often a dynamic and developing process . |
| 27 | Tools are expensive , but it is often a false economy to go for the cheapest . |
| 28 | The practical difficulties of nursing a sick relative can be very great , but Pitkeathley agrees that it is often the emotional upset of having to bath a previously fastidious mother , or pretend your father has spilt his tea when the bed is wet , or simply having to make all the decisions for a once strong parent , which cases the most upset . |
| 29 | Interestingly , parents find this particularly hard as it is often the complete opposite of what they normally do . |
| 30 | It is often the negative power I perceive within myself that is so difficult to account for , or control . |