Example sentences of "is often [verb] [conj] " 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 | Even if access to data is restricted through the use of passwords when calling it up from the computer , it is often felt that data are not secure and confidentiality may be breached . |
| 4 | The range of tools found on these farms is often limited and unrepresentative of the range of activities we know took place . |
| 5 | The objective lenses required for cathodoluminescence must have long working distances , so choice is often limited and prices high . |
| 6 | The fourth is that of definitions of legitimate knowledge : what is often taught as neutral and objective is in fact androcentric and sexist . |
| 7 | The legal model of the company is often treated as establishing a basic constitution for the company , defining the powers of the different organs of the company and regulating the relationship between them . |
| 8 | They tend , however , towards what Sahlins has castigated as a ‘ sociability fetishism ’ ( 1976a : 120 ) , in which social structure is often treated as both prior to , and ontologically superior to , its appearance in goods . |
| 9 | Although it is often treated as a little more than a menu system , the Windows Program Manager is a flexible organising tool for the Windows environment . |
| 10 | Conversation between strange women at the beginning of a party is often strained and this occasion proved to be no exception . |
| 11 | The assumption is often made that the best form of library instruction can be given by the personalized service at the reference desk . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The argument is often made that what is required is applied research to deliver products and processes directly to industry . |
| 14 | Sometimes , with older children , it is often advocated that all refused instructions are dealt with this way but this is not always a good idea . |
| 15 | ‘ But Liverpool Airport has far greater potential than is often perceived and we have a strong underlying confidence for the future . ’ |
| 16 | It may well be in this mis-match of experience that the first seeds of misunderstanding and destructive tension are sown , particularly as the education officer is often perceived as ‘ the authority ’ , in several senses of the word , while the head has a greater knowledge of the processes of education required in school to meet the needs of the children . |
| 17 | Whereas in the search stage the main task in the media reporting is the construction of the sex beast , at the trial stage — reflecting the activity within the courtroom — the delineation of the sex beast is often ruled or even avoided . |
| 18 | In order to enable the JPR to result in action and development , and for it to be used as a basis for discussion the following year , the interview is often summarised and stored in the worker 's personal records . |
| 19 | Elsewhere , as in Australia , ‘ the half-trained pianist is often accepted as sufficient for the task ’ . |
| 20 | The better practice in such cases is to attempt service even after the stated time-limit : a trial or other procedural step is unlikely to follow immediately after the expiry of the time-limit , so belated service may still give the defendant a useful opportunity to intervene ; and under Article 1591 a six-month waiting period is often imposed before proceedings can be taken to the stage of a default judgment . |
| 21 | A condition of payment into court is often imposed where a judgment is to be set aside but other terms and conditions are imposed sparingly . |
| 22 | The question is often asked whether Hindus believe in many gods and goddesses . |
| 23 | This is a question that is often asked when planning home extensions , particularly when space is limited . |
| 24 | Individual achievement is often symbolized and measured by the quality and quantity of material possessions that a person can accumulate . |
| 25 | Moreover , water is often heated and pumped , and so minimising water use is another way of minimising energy consumption . |
| 26 | Even the work published in English by people like Norman , Halliday , Moore or Steven is often ignored or treated as misguided . |
| 27 | What we as farmers say to the contrary is often ignored because we are seen as having an interest to represent . |
| 28 | However , error introduced into digital map databases through the digitizing process is often ignored because the characteristics of digitizing error have not been fully defined and because no practical means of handling input data uncertainty exist within proprietary GIS software . |
| 29 | This analysis does much to elucidate what is often dismissed as Nkrumah 's plunge into Communist ( or was it Fascist ? ) dictatorship . |
| 30 | Even without any extra funding , the scheme hopes to help crèches with the information and advice that is often lacking when new crèches are set up . |