Example sentences of "[noun pl] it is often " in BNC.

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1 Due to the scale of operations in large companies it is often possible for staff to specialise in a way that is impractical in smaller companies .
2 Whereas in the West it is generally the province of the privileged , in developing countries it is often the beating heart of resistance to oppression .
3 Despite these manifold advantages it is often hard to persuade the commercial community even to take an interest in proposals for harmonization affecting their sphere of business , still less to give the proposals their support .
4 Along mid-oceanic ridges and subduction zones it is often a problem distinguishing between ‘ normal ’ and anomalous volcanism .
5 In these circumstances it is often easier for parents to support their children 's non-attendance by providing bogus explanations for it .
6 Its base unit is the kilogram although in chemical calculations it is often more convenient to use grams .
7 In these situations it is often the deterioration of the mind of the old person which makes tending tasks so hard to bear , which reminds us that we do not simply respond to bodies , we respond to people , negatively or positively .
8 By shopping around and comparing prices it is often possible to save quite a bit of money , but even so , dry mixes always work out more expensive than mixing your own , although they do also cut out the preliminary stages of the mixing process .
9 For the pregnant girls it is often a real eye-opener to see the other girls go off , deliver their babies and come back , having survived it all .
10 For these reasons it is often difficult in many cases to trace a single primary source .
11 To aid the overall analysis of the contractor 's programmes it is often appropriate to request at tender detailed programmes for each structure or major work area programmes for shutter , falsework and scaffolding erection and movement resource schedules against work elements , and movement charts for labour and plant .
12 In vertical mergers it is often claimed that there are important gains to co-ordination and planning .
13 For small molecules it is often possible to write down descriptions of various vibrations until the total of 3N — 6 is reached , decide the symmetry selection rules for each in turn , and so decide how many modes should appear in the IR and Raman spectra .
14 MOD is defined such that , If you are doing integer division ( DIV ) of whole numbers it is often desirable to know the remainder .
15 With young children it is often not appropriate to offer food as a reward for eating the main course .
16 In cases concerning children it is often necessary to subjugate justice to the adults to the interests of the children .
17 In such schemes it is often difficult to identify all literature on a given concrete at one location .
18 For the citizen with a need , whether it be welfare , housing assistance , job training or scores of other tasks the federal government has tackled through its grants it is often very difficult to decide just who is responsible for what .
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