Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] is often [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This data is incorporated in publicizing of the unit and its work ; in articles , meetings with other professional groups and in a display on the wall of the head 's office-cum staffroom where it is often referred to in the course of interviews with parents and pupils . |
| 2 | For example , candidates often write the number identifying the question in small figures close to the inner corner of the page , where it is often concealed by the way the examination book is bound . |
| 3 | Although it is often presented as a scientific term , relating to features of urban development , its use is better understood as part of an ideological set which has been borrowed from the United States . |
| 4 | A feature of the jazz chord is that it is often conceived as a small and highly mobile unit . |
| 5 | This case is so important , by comparison with the social situations of artists in later societies , that it is often presented as if it were singular and uniform , and this can have important effects on its more general interpretation . |
| 6 | Indeed , the pervasive appeal of the term ‘ bottom line ’ ( profit after all deductions ) is such that it is often used as the ultimate test of success in any aspect of society ; in sport , how well the game is played is irrelevant , what matters is the final score — the bottom line is winning or losing . |
| 7 | It is a symptom of the high esteem in which ivory has consistently been held in civilized societies that it is often linked with gold and precious stones . |
| 8 | Such behaviour is hardly the ultimate manifestation of anarchy that it is often depicted to be . |
| 9 | Particularly , we have seen that it is often financed by revenue , either explicitly ( by recording it as an asset with an equal figure of capital discharged ) or implicitly ( by expensing it ) . |
| 10 | The great defect in such writing is that it is often structured by questions of the form Who discovered such and such a fact first ? or Who first anticipated such and such a concept ? |
| 11 | The scarlet pimpernel is so sensitive that it is often known as the Poor Man 's Weather Glass . |
| 12 | And one is often left with a feeling that in this area of the law judges rely almost entirely on their own sense of justice or on their own personal conception of what is best . |
| 13 | He and Leslie have regular lessons with Dorothy Willis , mainstay of Ginny Leng 's team at Ivyleaze , and he is often schooled over showjumps at the local Hartpury College where the facilities are excellent . |
| 14 | Most of the youngsters know him by name and he is often called to Hendon police station when they get into trouble with the law . |
| 15 | In other words the marginal social cost of provision is zero , and it is often argued in welfare economics that the ‘ efficiency ’ price should , therefore , be zero . |
| 16 | This system is also used by fish to find food , and it is often tuned to the body vibrations of prey . |
| 17 | The ability to draw on such knowledge is an essential aspect of discourse interpretation and it is often employed by subjects in the kind of memory experiments which we have just described . |
| 18 | People listen quietly , and it is often balanced by a concluding piece at the end of the service during which the congregation remains quietly seated . |
| 19 | Supermarkets seldom have time to nurture the cheese to full maturity and it is often sold with a large , hard ‘ chalk ’ in the centre of the paste , which is flavourless and most unpleasant to eat . |
| 20 | Poetry demands a form of reading that , though rewarding , is unusually intensive , and it is often avoided in sixth-form English teaching . |
| 21 | But his old friend ‘ the Professor ’ is obviously a scientist of note — and perhaps best of all , is fun and always using science to produce exciting things , even if he is often defeated by magic spells ( Fig. 3 ) . |
| 22 | Strictly speaking the peak static torque is a function of phase current , but it is often quoted as a single value corresponding to the rated phase current . |
| 23 | This metaphor of the stage or the world as a place for performance and pretence is familiar , but it is often misinterpreted as a criticism of the theatre . |
| 24 | We have spent some time on the preliminaries , particularly the notation , because notation is essential for communication and because it is often neglected as a stage in attacking a problem . |
| 25 | The optimality account of ageing has come to be known as the ‘ pleiotropy theory of senescence ’ , because it is often developed in terms of genes with effects on more than one aspect of the phenotype , in this case on survival and fertility at different ages . |
| 26 | I am glad Tom Regan mentioned this word , because it is often used in the wrong sense , as he implied , simply for anyone whose ideals are rather extreme . |
| 27 | Violence ‘ involves the use of great physical force or intensity and , while it is often impelled by aggressive motivation , may occasionally be used by individuals in a mutual violent interaction which is regarded by both parties as intrinsically rewarding ’ ( Siann 1985 : 12 ) . |
| 28 | The legal profession is not always entirely blameless in these matters , for there is often left in the minds of interested people the suspicion that , in the courts of law the scoring of points and the winning of cases takes precedence over the desire to administer justice and establish truth . |
| 29 | But a reply from Darlington Borough Council said : ‘ We can not offer a guaranteed cure for condensation particularly when it is often caused by a tenant 's lifestyle . ’ |
| 30 | HyperSparc is Cypress ' Mbus-compatible alternative to the Texas Instruments Inc superscalar SuperSparc chip ( or Viking as it is often referred to ) , which Sun Microsystems Inc is using in its new generation of Sparcstation 10 systems . |