Example sentences of "it is often [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , it is often assumed by Continental and North American commentators that there has never been any significant literary theory in England . |
| 2 | As it is often undertaken by senior pastoral staff , it could be argued that calculating the percentages every week is not the most effective use of their time . |
| 3 | The inverted-U relationship has been empirically demonstrated for a number of different tasks ( e.g. Courts , 1942 ; Stennett , 1957 ; Bolanger & Feldman , described in Malmo 1959 ) , however , it is often regarded as a purely descriptive relationship rather than necessarily implying that arousal per se is affecting performance . |
| 4 | A feature of the jazz chord is that it is often conceived as a small and highly mobile unit . |
| 5 | It is often referred to as baker 's cheese and is , as implied , very good for cooking . |
| 6 | As it is the relationship of the head to the rest of the body ; it is often referred to as ‘ the head , neck , back relationship ’ . |
| 7 | It is often referred to as ‘ the skinny type ’ , as there is little fat or muscle visible . |
| 8 | HyperSparc is Cypress ' Mbus-compatible alternative to the Texas Instruments Inc superscalar SuperSparc chip ( or Viking as it is often referred to ) , which Sun Microsystems Inc is using in its new generation of Sparcstation 10 systems . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The possibility of conflict is reduced because of the expectation of the continued availability of the increment to avoid the questioning of the existing budget ( or baseline as it is often referred to ) . |
| 11 | In the Community context it is often referred to as ‘ codification ’ , although in practice it most often corresponds to what is called ‘ consolidation ’ in the British context . |
| 12 | For this purpose , it is often expressed per head of population , which also brings problems of estimation . |
| 13 | Although this is available in tablet form it is often prescribed as a powder , to be taken mixed with water — this combats Candida in the mouth and throat , as well as in the intestines . |
| 14 | It is often eaten by athletes who require gradually released energy for long distance events . |
| 15 | It is often written by the Maker of Clouds itself . |
| 16 | People listen quietly , and it is often balanced by a concluding piece at the end of the service during which the congregation remains quietly seated . |
| 17 | The influence of the semiotic model within psychoanalysis is important but , as we shall see , it is often incorporated into sexual difference theory in a form which manages to exclude what the model is especially sensitive to , namely the way oppositions which constitute meaning are fundamentally binary , yet can not ultimately be contained in and by binary closure even as , in practice , the binary remains a fundamental principle of social and psychic ordering . |
| 18 | Because narrative is able to cope with these problems , it is often enlisted by the human mind to work through logically impossible situations . |
| 19 | The ability to draw on such knowledge is an essential aspect of discourse interpretation and it is often employed by subjects in the kind of memory experiments which we have just described . |
| 20 | It is often observed in helping those with complex personal problems that childhood and adolescent experiences are the most important in understanding adult difficulties . |
| 21 | It is often led to the nest by a curious bird known as the honeyguide . |
| 22 | We have spent some time on the preliminaries , particularly the notation , because notation is essential for communication and because it is often neglected as a stage in attacking a problem . |
| 23 | If there is an address , it is often given by a layman , who commends what we did in life and skims discreetly over the question of survival , if any . |
| 24 | Because of this cultural dominance it is often seen to be ‘ proper English ’ with other ways of speaking judged as inferior . |
| 25 | It is often seen as a subject with very limited aims , usually the acquisition of knowledge and information about ages remote from our own , and whose teaching is restricted to dictated notes , copying from textbooks and rote learning . |
| 26 | It is often seen in nature , but becomes much more obvious when natural hazards are removed in captive and human populations . |
| 27 | It is often seen in competition , but for safety reasons the heel strike is substituted for the sole of the foot . |
| 28 | It is often equated with the explanatory social survey ( as we shall see in Chapter 4 ) and although this may well be its prime expression , the logic and the impulse of variable analysis is somewhat wider than this being devoted to securing a more general basis for quantification in social research . |
| 29 | It is often sprayed at blossom stage and is therefore impossible to wash off . |
| 30 | Strauss 's annotations of Hofmannsthal 's libretto are discussed in detail , as is the harmonic structure of the opera which Gilliam identifies as tonal , thus supporting others ' views that Strauss 's next opera , Der Rosenkavalier , was not such a change of tack as it is often represented to be . |