Example sentences of "[is] often [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though it 's often debated , undergravels may not be a good choice for those who wish to grow plants . |
| 2 | It 's often caused by some accident . |
| 3 | Because he 's articulate he 's often perceived as a serious intellectual who thinks out every step and nuance of Smashing Pumpkins , but he 's actually quite aware of the stupidity of rock star posturing and this come out in self-deprecation . |
| 4 | And this an argument that 's often put forward by the National Farmers Union , and other agricultural lobby groups , essentially erm , er , , it 's saying to sort of er , the European Community when they 're price setting , look there 's no point in you er , reducing agricultural product prices , cos all that 's going to do is increase supply . |
| 5 | It 's often put that hunting is good for the countryside that it 's about controlling foxes the scientific evidence rather puts that to pay the scientific evidence certainly indicates that fox hunting makes very little difference to control of foxes in the countryside and there is some evidence to suggest that fox hunting actually encourages more foxes to breed and that we end up with more foxes , so it seems to be self defeating in that respect . |
| 6 | Point Three : ‘ I suspect this ( those silly ‘ positive ’ electrons again ) is about as accurate as Aspen 's often repeated claims that a soft vacuum creates a soft sound and a hard vacuum creates a hard sound . ’ |
| 7 | It 's often felt that reading , or reading aloud , is an effective way of teaching spelling , and pupils may be advised that to improve their spelling they should read more . |
| 8 | So a big issue about whether how well we 're placed with regard to America and Japan and so on is how well placed are we to bring about this educational step , and I think we 're probably about as well placed as anybody else , certainly we have n't made some of the mistakes that other people have made , we have n't had a very big investment in what 's often called computer assisted instruction , which I think is rather limited . |
| 9 | He 'd walk me home from school and it 's often said that he carried my ballet shoes , which sounds kind of romantic , but he actually did sometimes , if I was carrying a whole load of things . |
| 10 | It 's often said the best way to pack for a holiday is to lay everything out you think you 'll need — and then leave half the things behind . |
| 11 | Orcadian dialect it 's often said has no words of endearment no dears or darlings but I think perhaps came as near to it as any word . |
| 12 | So that 's well , before we can go in , launch into this , I mean it 's often said that erm , er , well , one of the major reasons why agricultural commodity trade has n't been included in GATT , like virtually every other er , product has been , is because governments are saying , look this is a domestic policy , it 's got nothing to do with international trade , we 're supporting our farmers , it 's a domestic policy . |
| 13 | This kind of art 's often referred to as minimal art , which helps , you know , like most stables there 's a quite way of referring to stuff , and indeed very often this kind of art relates to very simple forms , which just one colour , or perhaps no colour if it 's a piece of wood for instance , or a large canvass covered with just one colour , a monochrome canvas — you referred to monochromes earlier . |
| 14 | However , just to complicate things at a very early level , it 's often observed that agricultural products have what 's called a perverse supply response , in that there 's a negative relationship between prices and output . |
| 15 | She 's often likened to Cookson , and deservedly so . |
| 16 | ‘ Rob 's often spoken about you , and I 'm so pleased you could come . |
| 17 | It 's often associated with large-scale traditional patterns used in Victorian times , but there 's a wide range of smaller-scale geometrics , as well as textures , some of which imitate natural materials like grasscloth , tree bark , woven material , etc . |
| 18 | It 's often described as a jungle , and to be totally frank , it is . |
| 19 | It 's quite a shortsighted policy , if you look at the er , because , if you erm , if you introduce subsidies to actually protect the domestic industry then that 's often going to cause retaliation from other countries and therefore effectively sealing off any trade , any effective trade at all , and consequently because there 's no competitive pressure on the domestic industries , they 're not going to feel the need to make themselves more productive , which they would do when there was competition . |
| 20 | ‘ Power ’ is defined as an ability to influence policy outcomes ( see Dahl 's often quoted definition in Ch. |
| 21 | I say rightly so because Herbert Spencer 's theory of evolution was fundamentally different from Darwin 's , even though it 's often confused with it . |
| 22 | For these women , regular 2 in 1 's often add to the problem , over-conditioning the hair to leave it looking lank and lifeless or stripping the hair of its natural oils , leaving it dry and brittle . |
| 23 | A former colleague at Holbein 's often spent nights on the town with Gilbey . |
| 24 | It 's often thought that previous attempts have failed because there are n't enough well-trained classical actors in the USA to make such a repertory company feasible , but this is increasingly not the case : American drama students are eager to train in the UK , and the percentage of successful auditions held is relatively high . |
| 25 | I think it 's often thought of as a way of men getting rid of their aggression and if they can go out there on a Saturday and shout and ball and scream , then that 's fine ! |
| 26 | Erm I mean kids can do , of a similar age , can do enormously abusive things to each-other in which case it 's often thought of as things like bulling or erm or or something like that y'know I mean for example I know somebody who attende was educated at Rugby and you know he was he was buggered silly by the other boys who also wired him up to the mains and stuck billiard cues up his bum and all sort of things . |
| 27 | Watch out … direct application can be messy ; it 's often recommended that the stained area is first wetted , then rinsed afterwards . |
| 28 | But it but it 's often misinterpreted , as being of the right mind and having the right attitude , about understanding |
| 29 | It 's often accompanied by lower back pain , but this is usually milder than the leg pain . |
| 30 | As with Man City though , Deane 's flick-on 's often went in the wrong direction but he had the beating of Potts nearly all the time . |