Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] is often " in BNC.
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| 31 | The third outcome is to fail to reconcile the discrepancy between personal goals and achievement , and it is often this failure which leads to retirement becoming a problem . |
| 32 | Designs are quite difficult to convert and it is often easier to start with designs for this type of knitting . |
| 33 | Only with marriage are young people expected to put aside the freedom of childhood and assume adult responsibilities , and it is often several years after marriage before young people ( especially young men ) finally settle into domesticity . |
| 34 | Economic issues are real enough and it is often pointed out that politics is about priorities . |
| 35 | Developing countries have their own specific economic , political and social requirements and it is often felt that the media should ‘ carry out positive development tasks ’ ; that they should accept restrictions if the state so desires and that they should be subordinate to the needs ( economic , cultural , political ) of a developing state . |
| 36 | It is the poor who fare worst in relation to housing facilities , heating and indoor playspace for their children , and it is often single-parent families that are particularly hard hit in this respect ( Townsend , 1979 , Chapter 13 ) . |
| 37 | For more demanding purposes still more is required , and it is often hard to decide just where to fix the borderline . |
| 38 | Individual weaving groups may adopt slightly varying methods of construction , particularly in the type of knot used to form the pile , and it is often these slight differences in weaving and structure , taken in conjunction with their appearance , that enable carpet experts to attribute individual rugs correctly . |
| 39 | On a good rug , the design should be clearly visible on the back , and it is often easier , particularly in long-pile carpets , to see any faults in the symmetry or articulation of the motifs . |
| 40 | Many aspects of the site , including dating , are revealed by its finds , and it is often necessary to compare finds with those discovered elsewhere . |
| 41 | No one can predict the sales success of an ad , and it is often difficult to measure the success even afterwards . |
| 42 | They seem built into human nature and it is often impossible to imagine a society without them . |
| 43 | This system is also used by fish to find food , and it is often tuned to the body vibrations of prey . |
| 44 | People listen quietly , and it is often balanced by a concluding piece at the end of the service during which the congregation remains quietly seated . |
| 45 | The demands of people at risk of suicide or of harming others must always take precedence over the quietly distressed but passive long-term sufferer , and it is often better , therefore , to relieve mental health workers dedicated to the particular needs of people with long-term problems from having to cope with the emergency short-term demands of new patients . |
| 46 | There should be a decent gap between the columns and it is often useful to place a vertical line in the middle of this gap , so physically preventing the eye straying from one to the other . |
| 47 | Membership is gained consciously or unconsciously and it is often difficult to determine the time when a person becomes a member . |
| 48 | And it is often those who suffer abuse who are capable of horrendous acts of violence , storing up their hatred for release in an act of revenge against the world . |
| 49 | We go further , and it is often said that God has revealed his Spirit as much in Buddhism and Hinduism as in Christianity ; indeed , as much in atheism as in theism . |
| 50 | Fibreglass pools are obviously entirely rigid and free-standing , and present no such difficulties during construction , but one must be very careful over the choice of design , for most are made by fibreglass manufacturers with little understanding of plant life and it is often the case that reeds , rushes and irises are expected to become established on a marginal shelf no more than 8 cm ( 3 in ) wide , while the deeper areas of the pool will not have a sufficiently flat floor to place a single waterlily basket . |
| 51 | The ability to draw on such knowledge is an essential aspect of discourse interpretation and it is often employed by subjects in the kind of memory experiments which we have just described . |
| 52 | And it is often at its most powerful and poetic when it is simple and direct — indeed , excessive complexity takes away from its effectiveness . |
| 53 | In other words the marginal social cost of provision is zero , and it is often argued in welfare economics that the ‘ efficiency ’ price should , therefore , be zero . |
| 54 | The name of this caput is usually the same as the whole estate and it is often recorded very early on . |
| 55 | Of course , this is a very simple case , and it is often necessary to consider many more AOs and MOs . |
| 56 | And it is often a transnational company that determines which products are manufactured or available in Mexico . |
| 57 | And it is often made even harder to understand by the jargon of psychiatry : ‘ schizophrenia ’ , ‘ psychosis ’ and the like . |
| 58 | Some delays are inevitable , and it is often difficult to get round them , but that is no one 's fault . |
| 59 | And most important of all and it is often forgotten is that in South Africa the regime and the western powers were facing a real hot revolution and that hot revolution could have destroyed the country for all its people . |
| 60 | Levels of investment are important to economic growth , and it is often considered a ‘ good thing ’ to stimulate growth by inducing a higher level of investment . |