Example sentences of "it is [adv] often [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is most often used when there is an internal conflict of feeling . |
| 2 | It is most often used where a salesperson is faced with the same objection being raised time after time . |
| 3 | It is also often supposed that there is less contact these days with neighbours and friends ; in Young and Willmott 's ( 1957 ) telling phrase , modern life on council estates is not face-to-face but window-to-window . |
| 4 | To the untutored eye , this picture of the personality of the creative individual might seem far distant from that of the psychotic ; it is certainly often cited as evidence against the two being connected . |
| 5 | There is no mechanism to enforce user involvement and it is therefore often ignored or at best lip-service paid to it . |
| 6 | It is too often assumed that if a law is not designed to protect one man from another its only rationale can be that it is designed to punish moral wickedness , or in Lord Devlin 's words ‘ to enforce a moral principle ’ . |
| 7 | In the 1980s it has been acknowledged that the importance of formal ( tripartite ) arrangements at ‘ peak ’ levels has been reduced — indeed it is now often suggested that Britain was always less ‘ corporatist ’ in these terms than countries such as the Federal Republic of Germany , Austria and Sweden . |