Example sentences of "[pron] be often [verb] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 However , to elucidate the differences between them and to indicate the potential for increased co-operation and co-ordination it is useful to define these terms which are often used imprecisely and interchangeably .
2 Nevertheless , it is good to see a film about a region which is often written about but rarely filmed .
3 Notice this latter illustration concentrating on the externals of a still picture and then having selectively to use a ‘ public voice ’ , carried less risk of inadequate work than if the group had gone straight into dramatic playing , a mode which is often used indiscriminately and without any kind of rigour .
4 They are often rounded , but some have a flat top , which was often placed so that the sharpest edge or point indicated the direction of the ley .
5 There must be a strong emphasis on in-service support for rural educators who are often isolated physically and professionally .
6 Harsh discipline was the child 's lot , and they were often terrorized deliberately and , not infrequently , sexually abused .
7 It is often pointed out that the long-running set of victimization data in Britain , the General Household Survey 's regular measurement of the extent of burglary victimization since 1972 , indicates that most of the increase in recorded burglary is a reporting phenomenon .
8 Economic issues are real enough and it is often pointed out that politics is about priorities .
9 It is often pointed out that higher education was centrally seen in this way in the nineteenth century , but that very different models were on offer .
10 Thus , it is often pointed out that the statistics of murder include many domestic killings , the implication being that the figures are not therefore quite as grave as they seem .
11 It is often pointed out that chemists have failed in their attempts to duplicate the spontaneous origin of life in the laboratory .
12 It is often pointed out that governments manipulate the economy to engineer booms in periods immediately preceding elections , to the detriment of the economy , often by manipulating the money supply .
13 It was often said later that it was in Switzerland that Muhammad Reza required a sympathy for aspect of democracy , and that his subsequent attempts to reconcile such notions with the governance of Iran proved to be difficult .
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