Example sentences of "it is often [verb] by " 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 | It is often eaten by athletes who require gradually released energy for long distance events . |
| 4 | It is often written by the Maker of Clouds itself . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Because narrative is able to cope with these problems , it is often enlisted by the human mind to work through logically impossible situations . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It is often caused by every change of the weather , especially from warm to cold ; from perspiration that is checked especially if hot ; from taking cold ; from cold wet weather . |
| 10 | But a reply from Darlington Borough Council said : ‘ We can not offer a guaranteed cure for condensation particularly when it is often caused by a tenant 's lifestyle . ’ |
| 11 | It is often preceded by intimations of mortality , in the form of a decline in fertility and most aspects of biological performance , characteristic of ‘ senescence ’ or ‘ ageing ’ . |
| 12 | It is often spoken by a presenter who may never appear on the screen but is heard partly or entirely as " voice over " . |
| 13 | It is often triggered by an emotional upset of some kind , such as moving house or starting playgroup . |
| 14 | Particularly , we have seen that it is often financed by revenue , either explicitly ( by recording it as an asset with an equal figure of capital discharged ) or implicitly ( by expensing it ) . |
| 15 | It is often accompanied by die-back of shoot tips early in the year . |
| 16 | When the history of science is hijacked for apologetic purposes , it is often marred by a cultural chauvinism . |
| 17 | Violence ‘ involves the use of great physical force or intensity and , while it is often impelled by aggressive motivation , may occasionally be used by individuals in a mutual violent interaction which is regarded by both parties as intrinsically rewarding ’ ( Siann 1985 : 12 ) . |
| 18 | With these it is often initiated by acute tail-biting which gets out of hand ‘ and then the attacking pig or pigs continue to eat further into the back . |
| 19 | For example , candidates often write the number identifying the question in small figures close to the inner corner of the page , where it is often concealed by the way the examination book is bound . |
| 20 | The great defect in such writing is that it is often structured by questions of the form Who discovered such and such a fact first ? or Who first anticipated such and such a concept ? |