Example sentences of "is often [vb pp] that " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is often assumed that because of the vulnerable status of many refugees , such a mass influx places an immense burden on the receiving area 's economy . |
| 32 | It is often assumed that in cost behaviour there is only one independent variable . |
| 33 | Although it is often assumed that these were one and the same battle , there is no evidence that Clovis fought at Zülpich , and it is possible that they were separate events . |
| 34 | It is often maintained that mentally handicapped people are a burden on society . |
| 35 | In being bred intensively for colours and scents , so much vigour is often lost that in order to realize its full potential a plant needs to have the much more vigorous upthrust of a ‘ wild ’ rootstock pushed into it . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | It is often asserted that the 1980s saw a polarization of two fundamentally opposed educational movements , multiculturalism and antiracism . |
| 38 | It is often stated that we only use 10 per cent of our brain . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | It is often said that the two most difficult and specialist design areas within a hotel are the kitchen and the leisure facility . |
| 43 | It is often said that more damage is done inside the hangar than out ! |
| 44 | It is often said that penalties automatically follow when blood appears following a facial attack , but this is an over-simplification . |
| 45 | It is often said that Muslim men think it a matter of pride that their women should n't work . |
| 46 | Although Christianity is the ‘ state religion ’ of Britain , it is often said that the majority of people who are nominally Christian will go to a church only on a very few occasions in their lives — for a Christmas or Easter service maybe , or a family christening . |
| 47 | It is often said that children have their lives before them and to die before they have had a chance to develop their personalities and lives seems particularly cruel . |
| 48 | It is often said that elderly people are glad to take on the role of grandparent or even great-grandparent . |
| 49 | It is often said that Britain 's membership of the Community is good for British business , and attention is drawn to the volume of our trade with the Community . |
| 50 | It is often said that the best index of the geography of an area is the distribution of population in space and time . |
| 51 | It is often said that anyone who works in intelligence for more than ten years becomes slightly crazy . |
| 52 | It is often said that people are bored at school , and can not do well , because of the irrelevance of the curriculum to their own life and experience , or the life and experience they will have when they leave school . |
| 53 | It is often said that children pick up and learn things much quicker than adults . |
| 54 | It is often said that Yugoslavia exports lower-quality products to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe than to the West . |
| 55 | For example , it is often said that testing assumes that intelligence can be quantified by a single number , as in a much-praised recent book , The Mismeasure of Man , by a palaeontologist , Stephen Jay Gould . |
| 56 | It is often said that opposites attract , but this does n't usually work with horses ; most people are happier with an animal whose temperament is similar to their own . |
| 57 | It is often said that the Eastern fathers neglected the cross in favour of the incarnation . |
| 58 | It is often said that many young people lose interest in poetry , and even stories , as they go through secondary school . |
| 59 | It is often said that alcohol is ‘ the only little pleasure that old people have ’ , which may be true to an extent , but if drinking becomes a problem then it is for the individuals to decide how much of a pleasure drinking is , and whether they want help to stop . |
| 60 | It is often said that Godiva chocolates should not be valued in pounds , but rather in carats . |