Example sentences of "it is [adv] often [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is not often recognized ’ , said Maine in 1885 ‘ how excessively rare in the world was sustained legislative activity till rather more than fifty years ago ’ , but law-making had by 1880 already become the characteristic activity of the modern state . |
| 2 | It is not often recalled that one of the Trust 's earliest acquisitions , in 1909 , was the cottage at Nether Stowey where the poet Coleridge wrote ‘ The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ’ and began his visionary epic ‘ Kubla Khan ’ . |
| 3 | I was grateful to the hon. Gentleman for raising that , because it is not often realised that such claims can be made up to three months before the person enters care , although I am aware that the circumstances do not always allow that . |
| 4 | However , because of the nature of the cases concerned in summary trial , it is not often given . |
| 5 | A back fist will out-range a reverse punch performed by an opponent of equal height but it is not often scored because many referees do not consider it powerful enough . |
| 6 | There is a smaller bedroom and a tiny , suspiciously tidy kitchen , which looks as if it is not often used . |
| 7 | Even when it is , it is most often seen in terms of the size of individual instalment payments , and the length of the repayment period . |
| 8 | Its major recommendation , and certainly the one for which it is most often remembered , was ‘ that homosexual behaviour between consenting adults in private be no longer a criminal offence ’ . |
| 9 | Although sometimes appearing as a short man covered in hair , it is most often identified as a wild young bogey-horse , or a cross between a horse and a bull displaying two long , sharp horns . |
| 10 | It is most often used when there is an internal conflict of feeling . |
| 11 | It is most often used in whole group work , but it is also very productive in forum theatre , particularly if the role you take on functions as an obstacle which the class ( or representatives of the class ) have to find their way round by argument , persuasion and compromise . |
| 12 | It is most often used for sending characters that control the action of the Screen Driver . |
| 13 | It is most often used where a salesperson is faced with the same objection being raised time after time . |
| 14 | It is thereby often based on a childhood authority figure such as the father or mother . |
| 15 | This is the firm 's minimax profit , and it is also often referred to as its ‘ security level ’ , since the firm can not be forced to take a lower profit than that . |
| 16 | It is also often known by the name ‘ birds-eye ’ jacquard on some other types of knitting machine . |
| 17 | It is also often used to pay for the preliminary work involved in making applications for civil and criminal legal aid . |
| 18 | It is also often supposed that there is less contact these days with neighbours and friends ; in Young and Willmott 's ( 1957 ) telling phrase , modern life on council estates is not face-to-face but window-to-window . |
| 19 | It is very often assumed , particularly by non-technical persons , that a product is tested for stability and that after a certain time a result is obtained proving stability of the product and/or pack . |
| 20 | It is very often flavoured with liqueurs such as Strega or Grand Marnier , but the version I personally like best is this one which has a caramel flavour . |
| 21 | To the untutored eye , this picture of the personality of the creative individual might seem far distant from that of the psychotic ; it is certainly often cited as evidence against the two being connected . |
| 22 | There is no mechanism to enforce user involvement and it is therefore often ignored or at best lip-service paid to it . |
| 23 | It is too often assumed that if a law is not designed to protect one man from another its only rationale can be that it is designed to punish moral wickedness , or in Lord Devlin 's words ‘ to enforce a moral principle ’ . |
| 24 | This analysis is necessary to an understanding of politics in Britain , and yet it is too often dismissed by Marxists , at least implicitly , as irrelevant . |
| 25 | It is too often forgotten — this is another dimension — that in Britain the age at which children start school is comparatively young . |
| 26 | It is still often known as Norfolk reed ; and in contrast to ordinary straw thatch , which has a lifetime of thirty years at most , a well-laid thatch of Norfolk reed may last as long as eighty years . |
| 27 | In the 1980s it has been acknowledged that the importance of formal ( tripartite ) arrangements at ‘ peak ’ levels has been reduced — indeed it is now often suggested that Britain was always less ‘ corporatist ’ in these terms than countries such as the Federal Republic of Germany , Austria and Sweden . |
| 28 | The duppy is the personification of evil and only capable of malicious acts ; at the very least its fetid breath will cause a victim to vomit violently , though it is more often asked to kill via its pernicious touch . |
| 29 | US companies , he said , generally use the AS/400 as a departmental machine , while in Europe it is more often employed as a central server in medium-sized firms . |
| 30 | US companies , he said , generally use the AS/400 as a departmental machine , while in Europe it is more often employed as a central server in medium-sized firms . |