Example sentences of "it be often [verb] that " in BNC.

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31 It is often maintained that mentally handicapped people are a burden on society .
32 It is often asserted that the First World War rescued the Unionist Party from an impossible position and left it poised to become the dominating force ; the war broke up Liberalism and destroyed the Liberal-Labour alliance , so opening the way for Unionism ; Lloyd George carried the party to victory in 1918 , incurred the odium for the post-war slump and was cast aside ungratefully in 1922 .
33 It is often asserted that the 1980s saw a polarization of two fundamentally opposed educational movements , multiculturalism and antiracism .
34 It is often stated that we only use 10 per cent of our brain .
35 It is often stated that the greater speed of modern farming operations and the larger machines used cause increased losses in ground-nesting species such as the Lapwing .
36 It is often stated that the detective story was an impossibility before there was an established order in society and a more than rudimentary police force to support it .
37 It is often stated that young children are in the concrete operational stage of development and that their experience of the adult world and their ability to understand are restricted .
38 Whilst it is possible to involve CAD at any of the three levels , it is often seen that even the high technology companies will initially approach it as an element replacement activity ( low level ) .
39 It is often noticed that when someone has a close relative die , it seems to be not unusual that the family pet dies shortly afterwards .
40 It is often argued that we would all be better off if we followed the Warsaw Pact system of accepting their superpower 's equipment , produced mainly in the Soviet Union , but also in satellite countries like Czechoslovakia .
41 However , it is often argued that when barriers are taken down and teachers start to work in teams developing courses and assessing pupils ' responses , real improvements begin to occur .
42 Since class is generally defined by male socioeconomic status , it is often argued that women are more able to transcend class than men .
43 Thus it is often argued that statutes punishing cruelty to animals can only be explained in that way .
44 It is often argued that television has contributed much to the trivialization of politics in general and to the nomination process in particular .
45 For example , it is often argued that it is common sense and natural that women will engage in child-rearing and domestic tasks and that men will make sexual advances and will work outside the home .
46 If a British multinational invests in plant abroad , it is often argued that it weakens British industry because the resources could have been used to invest in new production in the UK .
47 Secondly , it is often argued that farm workers are compensated for their low wages by a cornucopia of payments in kind .
48 It is often argued that the latter type of identifying references are really parasitic upon the former .
49 It is often argued that if a child learned how to recode unfamiliar letter strings — printed words not previously encountered — into a phonological form , this would permit reading to be parasitic on an already established ability to access the semantics of a word from its phonology .
50 As a consequence , it is often argued that there is a greater need for additional performance measures , and that these measures should be more detailed in non-profit organizations ; in other words , that the wider accountability questions are more immediate and important .
51 Nevertheless , it is often argued that if the same sum were derived from indirect taxation , then any net disincentive effect that did occur would be that much smaller .
52 It is often argued that the institutions put the objective of profitability before the interests of the clients when making loans .
53 It is often argued that survey data give a very limited analysis of managerial policies which are developed over a period to deal with specific problems and this study should help to test such methodological criticisms .
54 It is often argued that equities are more marketable as they are a better safeguard against inflation because they will reflect the rise in the nominal value of real assets during an inflationary period .
55 It is often argued that the costs of regulation are front-end loaded , with the majority of costs being met with the startup of the SROs , subsequent running costs being minimal compared with the turnover of most financial institutions .
56 Visions of heavy counselling sessions come to mind and it is often felt that the grieving person must be helped to ‘ come to terms with it ’ , whatever ‘ it ’ might be .
57 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 .
58 Even if access to data is restricted through the use of passwords when calling it up from the computer , it is often felt that data are not secure and confidentiality may be breached .
59 Sometimes , with older children , it is often advocated that all refused instructions are dealt with this way but this is not always a good idea .
60 It is often said that the two most difficult and specialist design areas within a hotel are the kitchen and the leisure facility .
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