Example sentences of "is often [verb] that the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second muddle concerns murder and manslaughter specifically , namely , that since there is no workable defence of insanity , it is often assumed that the existence of the mandatory penalty for murder is the essential reason for the section 2 defence . |
| 2 | When computerised personnel systems are discussed , it is often assumed that the kind of thing in question is interrogating personnel records , salary modelling and manpower planning . |
| 3 | It is often assumed that the world of desktop publishing begins and , for some people , ends with the Apple Macintosh . |
| 4 | It is often stated that the detective story was an impossibility before there was an established order in society and a more than rudimentary police force to support it . |
| 5 | Although Christianity is the ‘ state religion ’ of Britain , it is often said that the majority of people who are nominally Christian will go to a church only on a very few occasions in their lives — for a Christmas or Easter service maybe , or a family christening . |
| 6 | It is often said that the North East was populated by successive generations of industrial scabs . |
| 7 | It is often said that the agenda of the Justice Model , although originally proposed by liberals and radicals who wished to reduce the overall harshness of punishment , was ‘ co-opted ’ in the late 1970s and 1990s by the political Right ( eg Bottoms , 1990a : 11 ; Hudson , 1997 : 72 ) . |
| 8 | It is often said that the tonic syllable can be identified because it is the only syllable in the tone-unit that carries a movement in pitch ; this is in fact not always true . |
| 9 | It is often said that the aikido adept resembles the eye of a hurricane . |
| 10 | It is often said that the hammer axle bushing in the Kapsel , or fork in which the hammer shank is mounted , absorbs enough of the energy of the returning hammer to act as a check . |
| 11 | IT IS often said that the collapse of the Soviet Union left the US as the only superpower . |
| 12 | It is often suggested that the issue of the ordination of women is a major obstacle to progress . |
| 13 | It is often suggested that the succession issue was a major source of controversy between Whigs and Tories . |
| 14 | In this part of Zurich , one is often reminded that the power of the guilds lasted until the end of the eighteenth century . |
| 15 | It is often forgotten that the service of a notice determining the tenant 's tenancy under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s25 , is only the first step in the process of recovering possession . |
| 16 | It is often forgotten that the introduction of a foreign language even at age eleven , takes place when children are still in the relatively early stages of language development in their first language . |
| 17 | It is often claimed that the government of many European States in the generation or more before the French Revolution is distinguished from earlier practice by the existence of something called ‘ Enlightened Despotism ’ . |
| 18 | Although it is often claimed that the camera does not lie , when using old photographs for historical purposes pupils need to give attention to the processes involved in choosing a subject and taking a photograph . |
| 19 | It is often supposed that the steam does something because it is steam . |