Example sentences of "[is] often do " in BNC.
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| 1 | One may choose to adopt a broadly aesthetic approach to texts , as is often done , perfectly appropriately , but one then encounters what seems to me a potentially disabling contradiction . |
| 2 | Because of this fundamental difference it is difficult to know whether we can rely on information about contemporaries to tell us about prehistoric peoples in the way that is often done still today and was done universally in Marx 's and Engels 's time . |
| 3 | In such a system one can say ‘ my own ’ or ‘ my true father ’ and this is often done . |
| 4 | Patting does not mean slapping the horse with the open hand to make as much noise as possible , which is often done to impress the onlookers ; the horse 's neck should be caressed fondly and delicately . ’ |
| 5 | To my mind his strong points are his single note two-hand tapping ( which is often done with the side of the pick rather than with a right-hand finger — see Satch Boogie ) , his chordal tapping ( as in Midnight , The Forgotten Part 1 and Headless ) and his tremolo and legato work ( as in nearly everything ! ) . |
| 6 | This work is often done by an old man of many years experience . |
| 7 | This is often done through an independent third party , such as a debt collecting agency , to ensure confidentiality . |
| 8 | The fact that , for Moore , the value of a thing follows necessarily from its intrinsic nature , from what it is like , makes it a little misleading to say , as is often done , that it is supposed to be always an open question whether something characterised in terms of its natural , or metaphysical , properties is good or not , and that this is his chief reason for regarding good as indefinable . |
| 9 | Amongst nomadic and village groups the final shearing is often done by the weaver , but in workshops a specialist is normally employed . |
| 10 | BELOW Clearing the modern deposits from an archaeological site is often done using a machine , with an archaeologist keeping watch in case anything is uncovered by the machine . |
| 11 | The removal of safety devices to speed up production , for instance , is often done with the tacit connivance of supervisors . |
| 12 | Such unrepresentative surfaces can be stripped away by bombardment of the sample with electrons or ions , and this is often done as a routine precaution to ensure that the surface examined is typical of the bulk material . |
| 13 | Monitoring the progress of projects is often done by means of project review meetings of which the minutes form a record of achievement and decisions . |
| 14 | Monitoring the progress of projects is often done by means of project review meetings of which the minutes form a record of achievement and decisions . |
| 15 | These distinctions make it important that we do not confuse , as is often done in the linguistic and philosophical literature , the categories of addressee and hearer . |
| 16 | Measurement is often done with clients , allowing both sides to resolve any areas of concern amicably and quickly . |
| 17 | This is often done by obtaining money in the form of loans , venture capital guarantees and that sort of effort . |