Example sentences of "that it is often " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the nicest things about walking around coastline peninsulas is that it is often easy to stick to the coastline without doubling back on yourself at the end . |
| 2 | Its cause is uncertain — it is also found even if we do not eat then — but it means that it is often possible to catch up on lost sleep by taking a nap at this time . |
| 3 | It has also been shaped for ease of packaging , rubberised and refined , with the result that it is often quite tasteless . |
| 4 | Another difficulty with carbohydrate food is that it is often over-refined . |
| 5 | Let us remember that it is often the most poor and humble who have the most to teach us . |
| 6 | It is generally accepted that people are motivated by success and that it is often easier to work towards realistic short-term targets . |
| 7 | Lloyd points out that it is often those who are called a labour aristocracy , who are the most militant . |
| 8 | The practical difficulties of nursing a sick relative can be very great , but Pitkeathley agrees that it is often the emotional upset of having to bath a previously fastidious mother , or pretend your father has spilt his tea when the bed is wet , or simply having to make all the decisions for a once strong parent , which cases the most upset . |
| 9 | Experience shows that it is often difficult to assess the extent of exposure to light that samples receive in the market and hence to estimate the degree of exaggeration or acceleration that any one test gives . |
| 10 | The snag with this is that it is often impossible to avoid the triggering events altogether and in any case it might be better to face them squarely and control your reactions to the events rather than the events themselves . |
| 11 | But it seems unlikely that it is often so , and it would be a mistake to extrapolate to other cases of mental illness which have been given the same diagnostic labels . |
| 12 | A feature of the jazz chord is that it is often conceived as a small and highly mobile unit . |
| 13 | But I have found that it is often the factor in a player 's style which , with a little bit of work , can yield the most impressive results . |
| 14 | A problem in studying language is that it is often too close to individual speakers to be observed dispassionately : it is either taken for granted and not seen at all , or is too intimately involved in individual and social identity to be discussed objectively . |
| 15 | It must be remembered that it is often difficult to get people to express themselves freely , that there is a tendency in any survey for interviewees to say what they think they are expected to say , and that individuals frequently find it hard to express subjective views on an aspect of their life which they might never have consciously considered before . |
| 16 | The problem is that it is often difficult to determine how long an individual has been drinking . |
| 17 | While neutral language may be less overtly offensive than the kind it replaces , there is reason to suppose that it is often ineffective , in the sense that it does not really bring women into people 's mental landscape at all . |
| 18 | It should be noted that it is often difficult to compare different recognition systems as they are reported because differences in input data and equipment can affect performance . |
| 19 | It is undeniable that animals intend to do things in the sense that it is often true of them that unless interfered with they will go on voluntarily to perform various actions . |
| 20 | This may sound frivolous , but it emphasizes the point that it is often far from clear what constitutes equivalent behavioural tasks when making comparisons between species , and this uncertainty creates problems for the comparative approach to brain function . |
| 21 | For Althusser 's claims are by no means easy to understand , and one reason for this is the fact that they are all exceedingly general , so that it is often unclear how they are to be used for the vital task of explaining particular states of affairs . |
| 22 | These signatures are more readily attributed to source regions within the continental lithosphere , and there are strong indications that it is often the mantle lithosphere that contributes isotopically ‘ enriched ’ ( low- 143 Nd/ 144 Nd ) material . |
| 23 | The receipt of such a bonus has an effect far outside the regular annual rise , which again in the case of ICI is a matter of such Byzantine complexity that it is often difficult to know whether one is getting a good or a bad one ! |
| 24 | Furthermore , apart from the fact that it is often unclear , as a matter of law , whether a decision is illegal or not ( and so it would be unsafe just to ignore it ) , it is not the case that a void decision is for ever void . |
| 25 | This brief examination of the inter-relationships between family , migration and urbanization should serve to illustrate the point that it is often difficult to establish any clear pattern of causation . |
| 26 | The great defect in such writing is that it is often structured by questions of the form Who discovered such and such a fact first ? or Who first anticipated such and such a concept ? |
| 27 | Native speakers do not recognise this , but foreign learners of English notice that it is often difficult to hear the unstressed parts of a word in ordinary speech . |
| 28 | Acquiring this kind of expertise brings its own rewards and it is gratifying to discover that it is often easier to explain a subject to others when you have had some difficulty mastering it yourself . |
| 29 | Be aware of the proper treatment as it is now possible to halve the mortality so that it is often inappropriate to leave people at home . |
| 30 | What is curious , however , is that it is often the same object which does all of these things . |