Example sentences of "is often [verb] that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Visions of heavy counselling sessions come to mind and it is often felt that the grieving person must be helped to ‘ come to terms with it ’ , whatever ‘ it ’ might be . |
| 2 | Developing countries have their own specific economic , political and social requirements and it is often felt that the media should ‘ carry out positive development tasks ’ ; that they should accept restrictions if the state so desires and that they should be subordinate to the needs ( economic , cultural , political ) of a developing state . |
| 3 | The suggestion is often made that a couple should not be treated as if they were living as husband and wife unless the man is actually giving the woman financial support . |
| 4 | The assumption is often made that the best form of library instruction can be given by the personalized service at the reference desk . |
| 5 | The second muddle concerns murder and manslaughter specifically , namely , that since there is no workable defence of insanity , it is often assumed that the existence of the mandatory penalty for murder is the essential reason for the section 2 defence . |
| 6 | It is often assumed that the Second World War had a more radicalizing impact on British politics than the First . |
| 7 | It is often assumed that the world of desktop publishing begins and , for some people , ends with the Apple Macintosh . |
| 8 | When computerised personnel systems are discussed , it is often assumed that the kind of thing in question is interrogating personnel records , salary modelling and manpower planning . |
| 9 | It is often asserted that the First World War rescued the Unionist Party from an impossible position and left it poised to become the dominating force ; the war broke up Liberalism and destroyed the Liberal-Labour alliance , so opening the way for Unionism ; Lloyd George carried the party to victory in 1918 , incurred the odium for the post-war slump and was cast aside ungratefully in 1922 . |
| 10 | It is often asserted that the 1980s saw a polarization of two fundamentally opposed educational movements , multiculturalism and antiracism . |
| 11 | It is often stated that the greater speed of modern farming operations and the larger machines used cause increased losses in ground-nesting species such as the Lapwing . |
| 12 | It is often stated that the detective story was an impossibility before there was an established order in society and a more than rudimentary police force to support it . |
| 13 | It is often said that no political recovery from the trauma of Soissons was possible . |
| 14 | It is often said that an assault can be committed only by an act and that an omission is not sufficient . |
| 15 | It is often said that the two most difficult and specialist design areas within a hotel are the kitchen and the leisure facility . |
| 16 | Although Christianity is the ‘ state religion ’ of Britain , it is often said that the majority of people who are nominally Christian will go to a church only on a very few occasions in their lives — for a Christmas or Easter service maybe , or a family christening . |
| 17 | It is often said that the best index of the geography of an area is the distribution of population in space and time . |
| 18 | It is often said that the Eastern fathers neglected the cross in favour of the incarnation . |
| 19 | It is often said that the ‘ old men ’ did everything the hard way and in the past such templates tended to be cut from the solid . |
| 20 | It is often said that the North East was populated by successive generations of industrial scabs . |
| 21 | It is often said that the agenda of the Justice Model , although originally proposed by liberals and radicals who wished to reduce the overall harshness of punishment , was ‘ co-opted ’ in the late 1970s and 1990s by the political Right ( eg Bottoms , 1990a : 11 ; Hudson , 1997 : 72 ) . |
| 22 | It is often said that the pure watercolourist does not use any white pigment , relying entirely on the white of the paper . |
| 23 | It is often said that the aikido adept resembles the eye of a hurricane . |
| 24 | It is often said that the hammer axle bushing in the Kapsel , or fork in which the hammer shank is mounted , absorbs enough of the energy of the returning hammer to act as a check . |
| 25 | It is often said that the quantitative increase in Trident firepower is to accommodate , or seek to pierce , the anti-ballistic missile defences that have been established in the Soviet Union . |
| 26 | IT IS often said that the collapse of the Soviet Union left the US as the only superpower . |
| 27 | It is often said that the tonic syllable can be identified because it is the only syllable in the tone-unit that carries a movement in pitch ; this is in fact not always true . |
| 28 | It is often argued that the latter type of identifying references are really parasitic upon the former . |
| 29 | It is often argued that the institutions put the objective of profitability before the interests of the clients when making loans . |
| 30 | It is often argued that the costs of regulation are front-end loaded , with the majority of costs being met with the startup of the SROs , subsequent running costs being minimal compared with the turnover of most financial institutions . |