Example sentences of "is often " in BNC.
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| 1 | They will be moved to the ‘ death house ’ into a room that is often adjacent to the electric chair where they may hear the chair being tested at regular intervals . |
| 2 | Matisse and all the others saw the twentieth century with their eyes but they saw the reality of the nineteenth century , Picasso was the only one in painting who saw the twentieth century with his eyes and saw its reality and consequently his struggle was terrifying , terrifying for himself and for the others , because he had nothing to help him , the past did not help him , nor the present , he had to do it all alone and , in spite of much strength he is often very weak , he consoled himself and allowed himself to be seduced by other things which led him more or less astray . |
| 3 | What can be deduced from a self-portrait is often controversial ; a critic is especially likely to read into a self-portrait some opinion held about the artist . |
| 4 | Early work is often missing from an artist 's oeuvre , while student work or juvenilia may be saved only by chance or possibly by a devoted family . |
| 5 | Mixed exhibitions tend to have rather perfunctory introductions and catalogue entries ; the same is often true of exhibitions arranged by groups of artists , though they may have statements of aim or even an artists ' manifesto . |
| 6 | What is clearly a dealers ' market is often signalled by the invention of a brand name to group together a variety of material , perhaps rather disparate . |
| 7 | The arguments put forward can be interesting in themselves , but their drift is often towards making the context of the art shown more understandable . |
| 8 | Unfortunately it is often the case that writers do not allow themselves to be so free in autobiographical disclosures as to say exactly how they felt on seeing some work of art . |
| 9 | One of her sententious entries reads : ‘ Tactlessness is often taken for sincerity , and sincerity is in turn often taken for a compliment . |
| 10 | He is a schoolteacher , 29 years old — the age of Christ at Calvary , whose name is often in his mouth , averse though he is to ‘ deities ’ , and perhaps of Hamlet , whose words enter the novel . |
| 11 | Of the British playwrights , Pinter is often thought to be on the edges of ‘ absurdism ’ and you could also read N.F. Simpson 's One Way Pendulum and Cresta Run . |
| 12 | Ophelia is often ignored for audition material simply because she does n't seem to have much in the way of a sustained speech until she goes mad . |
| 13 | And your choice of audition piece is often largely decided by the contrast it provides with the classical selection you have made . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , it is often difficult to get agents to attend these productions . |
| 15 | This means that students then have the chance to present themselves as they would at a working audition , and this is often quite a good place to attract attention . |
| 16 | The actor is no different , although for some reason it is often thought that you are somehow ready to act , magically , the moment you enter a stage door . |
| 17 | The past is often reflected by something called documentary drama , which uses improvisation before arriving at a script in its final state . |
| 18 | In the West End there seems at the moment a tendency to rely too much on the goodwill of actors which is often accompanied by a failure to maintain a true interest in what is going on for the actor . |
| 19 | But to arrive at that moment , he wrote , it is necessary to be patient , it is necessary to hold back , it is often necessary to do nothing . |
| 20 | As is often the case , some last-minute idea blossoms while what had seemed a brilliant solution and been pondered for ages falls quite flat . |
| 21 | Unlike genuine lagers , which usually have alcoholic strengths of 4 per cent and upwards , the average British lager is often as weak as mild or standard bitter but is priced from 10 to 20 pence a pint more . |
| 22 | In the North a nozzle called a sparkler is often attached to the spout on the bar to give beer the creamy head preferred there . |
| 23 | In today 's accountant-led brewing industry the destiny of individual pubs is often decided in remote boardrooms by managers answerable only to corporate dogmas and next year 's profit forecasts . |
| 24 | Given the propensity of many modern breweries and their designers to impose an overall , single-period ‘ look ’ , however , the Georgian fabric that does exist is often the first thing to be swept away — to make way for a sham-Victorian world of clumsy stained glass and ugly stained hardwood . |
| 25 | Such redevelopment is often unnecessary and detrimental ; the end product of such schemes is all too often a sham-historical parody , re-creating an idealised , sanitised Britain that never actually existed . |
| 26 | It is often said that the two most difficult and specialist design areas within a hotel are the kitchen and the leisure facility . |
| 27 | ‘ We talk to them about the style of service and food they are planning and the figure we recommend is often less than they had estimated , ’ he says . |
| 28 | It is often eaten by athletes who require gradually released energy for long distance events . |
| 29 | Fish is often served with spices and vegetable sauces to enhance colour and flavour . |
| 30 | To an extent , this has always been there , but it 's important to raise the issue here because the most unfashionable person to help is often the person who is dying on your own doorstep . |