Example sentences of "it [be] often a [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 | And yet , when an event for all ages is organised , it is often a great success . |
| 6 | Even when it is not it is often a good way of generating conventions . |
| 7 | It is often a good idea to write up your own notes of a disciplinary interview immediately afterwards . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It is often a good idea to use an unexpressive language . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Unless you have a particular pretty beamed or coved ceiling it is often a good idea to lower the ceiling area in a kitchen . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It is often a good idea to try and get a continuing working relationship with an orthopaedic surgeon who can provide reports quickly . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Yet it is often a hidden disability , which isolates both the people who suffer from it and their families . |
| 19 | And it is often a transnational company that determines which products are manufactured or available in Mexico . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It is often a dynamic and developing process . |
| 23 | Tools are expensive , but it is often a false economy to go for the cheapest . |
| 24 | It was often a lower middle-class phenomenon , and was always fiercest in central and eastern Europe where the great mass of the population had little commitment to capitalist society or to the liberal values it generated . |
| 25 | But here , if you were caught preparing an escape , the worst that could happen to you was fourteen days solitary confinement with books and writing materials , and it was often a pleasant change to spend a fortnight by yourself after months of compulsory association . |
| 26 | The years of his isolation on a world where it was often a good idea to appear without warning had taught him how to move silently . |
| 27 | In reality , another story is just beginning for the victims of survivors , and until recently it was often a lonely or difficult one . |