Example sentences of "[pron] is often [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Hence , to an extent which is often hard to gauge accurately , high-sounding ‘ theoretical ’ debates between leading members of the profession are partly arguments between the cultures they were privileged to study . |
2 | As ‘ number-one woman ’ in your husband 's life you are in a strong position , and can afford to be very generous to her , especially in the all important matter of making sure that she is often able to spend time quite alone with her son . |
3 | She is often able to trace such complaints as severe , almost suicidal , depression , headaches and defective , blurred vision , to misalignment of the upper cervical vertebrae , which in turn places constant pressure on major nerve centres . |
4 | Building licences are difficult to get and the developer who has been fortunate enough to obtain one is often willing to pay a much inflated price for a piece of land upon which to build . |
5 | It is often appropriate to give time for spontaneous prayers of thanks from individuals in the congregation . |
6 | For those businesses requiring substantial sums of cash it is often appropriate to provide these from our Cash centres . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | It is often feasible to choose from more than one material or composite which is capable of selective transduction of the biolayer reaction ( Fig. 2 ) . |
9 | Example unc As you will find in algebra work , it is often useful to use a letter in place of a number that we are trying to find . |
10 | When writing the formulae of both covalent molecules and ionic compounds , it is often useful to use the valency of an atom , ion or group of atoms . |
11 | Thus an observed value ( Y ) can be modelled ( see Section 4.3 ) as and it is often useful to isolate these components . |
12 | There should be a decent gap between the columns and it is often useful to place a vertical line in the middle of this gap , so physically preventing the eye straying from one to the other . |
13 | Provided they do n't hold up the meeting too often , it is often useful to have one such man at the meeting , since he can be relied upon to ask the naive question that many others would like to ask but dare not . |
14 | It is often useful to have a Trashcan or Dustbin where you can dump unwanted files . |
15 | Should there be any doubt about the direction the hole now takes it is often useful to insert along stick up the hole . |
16 | It is often useful to make detailed notes after important meetings , interviews and telephone conversations . |
17 | In this situation , it is often useful to look back at the good things you have achieved and the good times you 've enjoyed in the past . |
18 | It is often effective to draw the bars in three dimensions as this lengthens the visual impact . |
19 | Where there are dramatic differences of incidence for different groups , where the social pattern investigated is simplex ( for example , class difference only ) , and where the differences virtually always tend in the same direction , it is often unnecessary to test for significance , because the patterns revealed are so clear that no one could believe they are the results of pure chance . |
20 | For this reason it is often unnecessary to disinfect saucepans , roasting trays and the like as they are disinfected as an automatic part of the cooking process . |
21 | We have seen by now in a good number of cases , including those immediately above , that when one takes account of the interaction between the meanings of particular words and the value of the constructions in which they may be used , it is often easy to see why certain structures are grammatical , and others are not ; this may enable us to say in turn why other related structures are ungrammatical . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | With a runway it is often possible to use the centre line and a selected spot . |
24 | In discussions with the child it is often possible to plan a course of work to meet the individual 's needs so that the learning process is negotiated rather than dictated . |
25 | It may be possible to grow the causative organism in the laboratory and , failing that , it is often possible to demonstrate measurable increases in specific antibodies in the blood . |
26 | Furthermore , it is often possible to replicate the artefacts in order to test the hypotheses about a particular object , although in some cases several different technological methods might arrive at an identical end-product . |
27 | It is often possible to see the vestigial remains of rear limbs on these large snakes . |
28 | It is often possible to see three month interbank outside the ¼ per cent band with regard to base rate . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | By plotting the position of stray finds on a map , it is often possible to pinpoint the archaeological site from which they came . |