Example sentences of "is [not/n't] often [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Detention ( at Broadmoor ) is usually lifelong , and for this reason insanity is not often pleaded , except very occasionally as a defence to a prosecution for murder . |
| 2 | Prolonged contraction of the external anal sphincter is not often evaluated in faecal incontinence . |
| 3 | I was grateful to the hon. Gentleman for raising that , because it is not often realised that such claims can be made up to three months before the person enters care , although I am aware that the circumstances do not always allow that . |
| 4 | It is not often recalled that one of the Trust 's earliest acquisitions , in 1909 , was the cottage at Nether Stowey where the poet Coleridge wrote ‘ The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ’ and began his visionary epic ‘ Kubla Khan ’ . |
| 5 | Berg 's Sonata , a student work written before he embraced atonality , is not often heard . |
| 6 | However , because of the nature of the cases concerned in summary trial , it is not often given . |
| 7 | Several themes recur throughout the book , grit and courage , an inexplicable sense of insecurity , a solemnity which Gooch has cultivated almost consciously as an image , and a love of playing for his county which the author suggests is not often seen elsewhere in county cricket ( although one or two from Yorkshire might disagree ) . |
| 8 | In spite of this fairly wide range of the Hawk Anthias is not often seen . |
| 9 | Above : The Silver Scat , Selenotoca multifasciata is not often seen in shops . |
| 10 | The newt , although fairly common in English ponds , is not often seen by ordinary people because it is a shy and murky creature . |
| 11 | Secrecy can be damaging in that : ( a ) the sources of power and influence are obscured ; ( b ) public servants are not properly accountable ; ( c ) public participation is seriously hampered ; ( d ) justice is not often seen to be done ; ( e ) inefficiency and error are made more likely . |
| 12 | The Royal Bank 's own coat-of-arms , granted in 1960 , is not often seen in the Age of the Logo , but does appear on our banknotes and , more recently , made a welcome appearance on the Highline card . |
| 13 | A similar phenomenon has been observed in some patients with AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis , but a halting progression with worsening of the biliary disease is not often seen , and there are no reports of hepatic fibrosis deteriorating to cirrhosis and liver failure . |
| 14 | This is not often realized by people outside the industry , who have adversely criticized the discharge of contaminating liquors on the assumption that wasteful methods have been employed . |
| 15 | This procedure is not often made explicit , but an overt commitment to the constructed-data approach has recently been expressed in the following terms : |
| 16 | A back fist will out-range a reverse punch performed by an opponent of equal height but it is not often scored because many referees do not consider it powerful enough . |
| 17 | The reason for covering the head is not often understood in Britain . |
| 18 | What is not often recognized is the extent to which this theological sense of perversion as the negative agency at the heart of privation , hence an inverted positivity , survives into the ‘ modern ’ sense of perversion/homosexuality as a profoundly inimical , vitiating lack ( of normality , of truth ) . |
| 19 | ‘ It is not often recognized ’ , said Maine in 1885 ‘ how excessively rare in the world was sustained legislative activity till rather more than fifty years ago ’ , but law-making had by 1880 already become the characteristic activity of the modern state . |
| 20 | In practice this defence is not often put forward . |
| 21 | … while it is a fact that presently desks are usually moveable , thereby permitting various kinds of grouping arrangements , this flexibility is not often required by what actually goes on in the classroom . |
| 22 | But what is not often appreciated is that unemployment , and its attendant social problems , helped to reshape the political balance of power of the age and was an important factor in the creation of a new two-party system in which the Labour Party replaced the Liberal Party as the progressive force of British politics in opposition to the almost omnipotent Conservative Party . |
| 23 | A The Lunar , or Moon Wrasse , Thalassoma lunare , is a commonly-available fish , but it full potential is not often appreciated by the hobbyist . |
| 24 | This is not often mentioned in the documents , but two of the surviving women compositors I was able to interview said they had started this way . |
| 25 | The opening item , Berlioz 's King Lear overture , one of that composer 's earliest works , is not often performed . |
| 26 | This poetry , by contrast , evokes a sympathy in me which is not often brought out by poetry , and I hope and believe that the works of Owen will become great classics and last for a long time . |
| 27 | There is a smaller bedroom and a tiny , suspiciously tidy kitchen , which looks as if it is not often used . |
| 28 | In practice it is difficult to comply with the added condition that the company be employee controlled in each year of assessment in which interest is paid , so this relief is not often used in management buy-outs . |
| 29 | This jurisdiction is not often used — the normal procedure is for the Attorney-General to bring proceedings for contempt once the trial has concluded . |
| 30 | The latter method may be preferred where , for cosmetic reasons , the parties wish to present the transaction as a " true " merger rather than one party taking over the other ; however , it is more unwieldy and expensive and is not often used where there is a risk of a competitive bid being made for either company . |