Example sentences of "[conj] it is often " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | On a system like the ZX Spectrum where it is often easier to draw in black and white before adding the colours this in an essential facility . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Although it is often taken to imply that the citizen is entitled to ‘ social rights ’ , it does not immediately conjure up a picture of socialist collectivism which would alienate those on the right . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Although it is often not specifically psychological , such work deals with issues which psychologists , especially feminist psychologists , are interested in . |
| 7 | Notice that we avoid the ( anthropomorphic ) term memory , and the term core store , which presupposes a particular store technology ( although it is often used generically ) ; when we wish to distinguish among several levels of storage on a computer , we will refer to this basic level as main or primary store . |
| 8 | Although it is often claimed that exercise has a beneficial psychological effect in its own right , the evidence for this is scanty and it is always difficult to separate the specific effect of exercise from the moral support and social contact which usually goes with it . |
| 9 | All of the theories have a view upon this although it is often not openly expressed . |
| 10 | Although it is often treated as a little more than a menu system , the Windows Program Manager is a flexible organising tool for the Windows environment . |
| 11 | This separation is a useful distinction , although it is often difficult to make in practice . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Although it is often assumed that these were one and the same battle , there is no evidence that Clovis fought at Zülpich , and it is possible that they were separate events . |
| 14 | Furniture ban MFI , failed to get a mention from Lord Ridley , although it is often the subject of many a comic 's material . |
| 15 | One of the nicest things about walking around coastline peninsulas is that it is often easy to stick to the coastline without doubling back on yourself at the end . |
| 16 | Its cause is uncertain — it is also found even if we do not eat then — but it means that it is often possible to catch up on lost sleep by taking a nap at this time . |
| 17 | It has also been shaped for ease of packaging , rubberised and refined , with the result that it is often quite tasteless . |
| 18 | Another difficulty with carbohydrate food is that it is often over-refined . |
| 19 | Let us remember that it is often the most poor and humble who have the most to teach us . |
| 20 | It is generally accepted that people are motivated by success and that it is often easier to work towards realistic short-term targets . |
| 21 | Lloyd points out that it is often those who are called a labour aristocracy , who are the most militant . |
| 22 | The practical difficulties of nursing a sick relative can be very great , but Pitkeathley agrees that it is often the emotional upset of having to bath a previously fastidious mother , or pretend your father has spilt his tea when the bed is wet , or simply having to make all the decisions for a once strong parent , which cases the most upset . |
| 23 | Experience shows that it is often difficult to assess the extent of exposure to light that samples receive in the market and hence to estimate the degree of exaggeration or acceleration that any one test gives . |
| 24 | The snag with this is that it is often impossible to avoid the triggering events altogether and in any case it might be better to face them squarely and control your reactions to the events rather than the events themselves . |
| 25 | But it seems unlikely that it is often so , and it would be a mistake to extrapolate to other cases of mental illness which have been given the same diagnostic labels . |
| 26 | A feature of the jazz chord is that it is often conceived as a small and highly mobile unit . |
| 27 | But I have found that it is often the factor in a player 's style which , with a little bit of work , can yield the most impressive results . |
| 28 | A problem in studying language is that it is often too close to individual speakers to be observed dispassionately : it is either taken for granted and not seen at all , or is too intimately involved in individual and social identity to be discussed objectively . |
| 29 | It must be remembered that it is often difficult to get people to express themselves freely , that there is a tendency in any survey for interviewees to say what they think they are expected to say , and that individuals frequently find it hard to express subjective views on an aspect of their life which they might never have consciously considered before . |
| 30 | The problem is that it is often difficult to determine how long an individual has been drinking . |