Example sentences of "it is often [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 And it is often made even harder to understand by the jargon of psychiatry : ‘ schizophrenia ’ , ‘ psychosis ’ and the like .
2 The name of this caput is usually the same as the whole estate and it is often recorded very early on .
3 It is often seen only in the legal sense : severing birth parents ' responsibilities to the child and transferring them to adopters .
4 Nowadays , because the symptoms are so similar , it is often lumped together under the general name ‘ Cystitis ’ .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
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