Example sentences of "it is often [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is often appropriate to give time for spontaneous prayers of thanks from individuals in the congregation . |
| 2 | For those businesses requiring substantial sums of cash it is often appropriate to provide these from our Cash centres . |
| 3 | To aid the overall analysis of the contractor 's programmes it is often appropriate to request at tender detailed programmes for each structure or major work area programmes for shutter , falsework and scaffolding erection and movement resource schedules against work elements , and movement charts for labour and plant . |
| 4 | It is often feasible to choose from more than one material or composite which is capable of selective transduction of the biolayer reaction ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 5 | Because it is very tempting to do so , it is often best to ask an estate agent or your solicitor to bid for you . |
| 6 | Useful investigation can take place in an individualised environment ( as many Open University students know ) ; however , it is often best to approach it as a co-operative endeavour . |
| 7 | Example unc As you will find in algebra work , it is often useful to use a letter in place of a number that we are trying to find . |
| 8 | When writing the formulae of both covalent molecules and ionic compounds , it is often useful to use the valency of an atom , ion or group of atoms . |
| 9 | Thus an observed value ( Y ) can be modelled ( see Section 4.3 ) as and it is often useful to isolate these components . |
| 10 | There should be a decent gap between the columns and it is often useful to place a vertical line in the middle of this gap , so physically preventing the eye straying from one to the other . |
| 11 | Provided they do n't hold up the meeting too often , it is often useful to have one such man at the meeting , since he can be relied upon to ask the naive question that many others would like to ask but dare not . |
| 12 | It is often useful to have a Trashcan or Dustbin where you can dump unwanted files . |
| 13 | Should there be any doubt about the direction the hole now takes it is often useful to insert along stick up the hole . |
| 14 | It is often useful to make detailed notes after important meetings , interviews and telephone conversations . |
| 15 | In this situation , it is often useful to look back at the good things you have achieved and the good times you 've enjoyed in the past . |
| 16 | It is often effective to draw the bars in three dimensions as this lengthens the visual impact . |
| 17 | It is often better to leave such exploration until the patient 's difficulties are beginning to resolve because by then the patient may be more willing to consider , for example , that his act was based on hostile and manipulation motives . |
| 18 | Soil pipes from downstairs WCs may be connected to the main soil stack of a single-stack system , but it is often better to connect them directly to the underground drains . |
| 19 | Accurate scaling is difficult for bitmapped graphics , especially scaling up , so it is often better to use a object-based drawing program like MacDraw or MacDraft . |
| 20 | However , from a legal point of view , it is often better to pay the old debt and create a new one ( see below ) . |
| 21 | It is often better to bite your lip and let pupils charge off in the ‘ wrong ’ direction , because the more of this kind of work you do the less you will be able to define ‘ wrong ’ . |
| 22 | For a single guard it is often wiser to use your knife as any noise can alert many more enemies including guard dogs . |
| 23 | Although often a marginal need in food environments , where hygiene regulations require the use of head gear , it is often cheaper to use safety helmets which can be wiped clean rather than incur laundry costs from the use of linen caps . |
| 24 | It stresses that " it is often cheaper to invest in energy conservation than in additional energy supply " . |
| 25 | In this situation , it is often cheaper to hire labour on the open market when needed than to maintain workers and their families permanently on the estate . |
| 26 | Instead , it is often simpler to make use of open-ended or indefinite contracts , the same contracts as are applied to other , " permanent " members of staff . |
| 27 | Where there are dramatic differences of incidence for different groups , where the social pattern investigated is simplex ( for example , class difference only ) , and where the differences virtually always tend in the same direction , it is often unnecessary to test for significance , because the patterns revealed are so clear that no one could believe they are the results of pure chance . |
| 28 | For this reason it is often unnecessary to disinfect saucepans , roasting trays and the like as they are disinfected as an automatic part of the cooking process . |
| 29 | We have seen by now in a good number of cases , including those immediately above , that when one takes account of the interaction between the meanings of particular words and the value of the constructions in which they may be used , it is often easy to see why certain structures are grammatical , and others are not ; this may enable us to say in turn why other related structures are ungrammatical . |
| 30 | One of the nicest things about walking around coastline peninsulas is that it is often easy to stick to the coastline without doubling back on yourself at the end . |