Example sentences of "it is often [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is often asked when a firm is taking on people for training when a lot of money will be wasted if the trainee does not have what it takes to stay the course . |
| 2 | It is often startling how people 's faces soften and their bodies relax after crying . |
| 3 | And it is often made even harder to understand by the jargon of psychiatry : ‘ schizophrenia ’ , ‘ psychosis ’ and the like . |
| 4 | The fact that so many people object so strenuously to the feminist ‘ attack on words ’ suggests , to me at least , that this issue of sexism in language is not the trivial diversion it is often made out to be . |
| 5 | It is often pointed out that the long-running set of victimization data in Britain , the General Household Survey 's regular measurement of the extent of burglary victimization since 1972 , indicates that most of the increase in recorded burglary is a reporting phenomenon . |
| 6 | Economic issues are real enough and it is often pointed out that politics is about priorities . |
| 7 | It is often pointed out that higher education was centrally seen in this way in the nineteenth century , but that very different models were on offer . |
| 8 | Thus , it is often pointed out that the statistics of murder include many domestic killings , the implication being that the figures are not therefore quite as grave as they seem . |
| 9 | It is often pointed out that chemists have failed in their attempts to duplicate the spontaneous origin of life in the laboratory . |
| 10 | It is often pointed out that governments manipulate the economy to engineer booms in periods immediately preceding elections , to the detriment of the economy , often by manipulating the money supply . |
| 11 | Since Chaucer 's day this has been referred to as CATERWAULING , but it is often recorded not as an aggressive sound but as a sexual one . |
| 12 | The name of this caput is usually the same as the whole estate and it is often recorded very early on . |
| 13 | Remove the skin from chicken and poultry before eating it , if it has not been removed before cooking ( it is often kept on during cooking to impart flavour ) . |
| 14 | It is often seen only in the legal sense : severing birth parents ' responsibilities to the child and transferring them to adopters . |
| 15 | However medical audit should be seen as part of a total approach to quality even if in reality it is often separated out . |
| 16 | Nowadays , because the symptoms are so similar , it is often lumped together under the general name ‘ Cystitis ’ . |
| 17 | Additionally , it is often said how difficult people find it to say ‘ goodbye ’ . |
| 18 | Tuberculosis spreads easily and it is often passed on from older members of the family to the children . |
| 19 | Where there is traditional hymnody , it is often used selectively with perhaps only one or two verses of a well-known hymn being repeated several times . |
| 20 | Notice that we avoid the ( anthropomorphic ) term memory , and the term core store , which presupposes a particular store technology ( although it is often used generically ) ; when we wish to distinguish among several levels of storage on a computer , we will refer to this basic level as main or primary store . |
| 21 | When women complain about men calling them by endearment terms , it is often thought rather silly — the men are just trying to be friendly , after all , they do not intend any sexist slur . |
| 22 | It is often forgotten why it is necessary to stamp conveyances or transfers with stamp duty . |
| 23 | It is often forgotten how many people in a developed country like Wales , either do not own a car or do not have regular access to one . |