Example sentences of "is often [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When women do confront sexism , the glib reply is often that it is a joke . |
| 2 | Their problem is often that there is nothing to explore except a bare concrete cell , and this frustrates them intensely . |
| 3 | The argument is often that a classification designed in the South ( no matter what alterations exist for Shetland ) does not take specifically local conditions and local interests into account . |
| 4 | There 's much that makes sense ; there 's much that is thought-provoking , even if the thought it provokes is often that the authors are off their trolley ( 'be alert to the strange fact that the end of each century divisible by five has witnessed a major transition in Western civilisation ’ ) . |
| 5 | A characteristic of such an organization is often that it has a very large board . |
| 6 | The difficulty here is often that it is not clear whether the problem is meant to bear a relation to the book-work question or not . |
| 7 | The defence of a firm accused of predatory pricing is often that it is merely responding to competition : so evidence of its intentions may be quite important in deciding whether a firm 's conduct is predatory or not . |
| 8 | Criticism of the retraining schemes is often that they train people for jobs that are not always available to them and they expect too much mobility from people who have further reasons , in their disability , for being reluctant to move from their familiar surroundings . |
| 9 | In narratives , such a view is often that presented by the main character in the story . |