Example sentences of "is often that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Criticism of the retraining schemes is often that they train people for jobs that are not always available to them and they expect too much mobility from people who have further reasons , in their disability , for being reluctant to move from their familiar surroundings . |
| 2 | Their problem is often that there is nothing to explore except a bare concrete cell , and this frustrates them intensely . |
| 3 | When women do confront sexism , the glib reply is often that it is a joke . |
| 4 | A characteristic of such an organization is often that it has a very large board . |
| 5 | The difficulty here is often that it is not clear whether the problem is meant to bear a relation to the book-work question or not . |
| 6 | The defence of a firm accused of predatory pricing is often that it is merely responding to competition : so evidence of its intentions may be quite important in deciding whether a firm 's conduct is predatory or not . |