Example sentences of "is often [verb] that the " 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 assumption is often made that the best form of library instruction can be given by the personalized service at the reference desk . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is often assumed that the Second World War had a more radicalizing impact on British politics than the First . |
| 6 | It is often assumed that the world of desktop publishing begins and , for some people , ends with the Apple Macintosh . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It is often asserted that the 1980s saw a polarization of two fundamentally opposed educational movements , multiculturalism and antiracism . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It is often said that the two most difficult and specialist design areas within a hotel are the kitchen and the leisure facility . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It is often said that the best index of the geography of an area is the distribution of population in space and time . |
| 15 | It is often said that the Eastern fathers neglected the cross in favour of the incarnation . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It is often said that the North East was populated by successive generations of industrial scabs . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | It is often said that the pure watercolourist does not use any white pigment , relying entirely on the white of the paper . |
| 20 | It is often said that the aikido adept resembles the eye of a hurricane . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | IT IS often said that the collapse of the Soviet Union left the US as the only superpower . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It is often argued that the latter type of identifying references are really parasitic upon the former . |
| 26 | It is often argued that the institutions put the objective of profitability before the interests of the clients when making loans . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But even in democratic societies knowledge of the past changes as historical scholarship develops and it is often found that the official record of the time under study contains errors or even deliberate falsification . |
| 29 | Even where it is not stated explicitly , it is often implied that the tenets of rationalism or humanism are indubitable and self-evident . |
| 30 | It is often suggested that the issue of the ordination of women is a major obstacle to progress . |