Example sentences of "often it [is] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very often it is despised . |
| 2 | This has a methodological implication as well : all too often it is assumed that Foucault 's stress on disruption can be taken as equivalent to randomness , as we have seen with Perry Anderson . |
| 3 | This conflict of interests would not be so bad if teaching was seen to have an equal claim with the others on doctors ' time , but too often it is pushed into last position in the list of priorities . |
| 4 | Occasionally , this problem is genetic but more often it is caused by using too heavy creams around the eye area or not removing cleansing cream properly . |
| 5 | Yes , trust is sometimes betrayed , but much more often it is fulfilled . |
| 6 | The most popular of the Fairy Basslets is known by many popular names , but very often it is called the Wreck Fish , or Lyretail Coral Fish Pseudanthias squamipinnis . |
| 7 | The Ring makes anyone who sees it wish to gain possession of it and the more often it is seen , the stronger this desire becomes . |
| 8 | This may be of pure sample , but more often it is diluted with a salt , usually KBr . |
| 9 | In closed systems an individual 's position is largely ascribed : often it is fixed at birth and there is little he or she can do to change status . |
| 10 | In other words , a settlement should be achieved by means of a formal undertaking or agreement executed expressly in consideration of the opposition being discontinued ; this may seem obvious but it is surprising how often it is ignored . |
| 11 | What is even more odd is that like the AV the STV is allowed to retain its original unitary value however often it is transferred and whatever its preferential status . |
| 12 | Too often it is forgotten that these should be ways of love and concord . |
| 13 | It is in this latter sense that very often it is claimed that the Conservative Party is advocating an incomes policy , by which is simply meant that the policies which we advocate would , we believe , have as a result the stability of money values and thus have the effect that increases in earnings were real and not merely monetary . |
| 14 | Often it is transported out of the upland valleys and spread out as fans at the upland edges . |
| 15 | Most often it is described as care returned more or less explicitly in gratitude for what the author had been given in childhood . |
| 16 | Too often it is exported for foreign exchange while poor people without the money to buy it or the land to grow it go hungry : South Asia still contains the majority of the world 's ‘ absolute poor ’ . |
| 17 | Whether the machine goes to the class or the class goes to the machine , it is a good idea to devise ways of recording how often it is used . |
| 18 | — Try to keep a check on how often it is used and get feedback on how it went . |
| 19 | Too often it is left to the police and union officials to work these things out in a hostile environment where clear thinking is at a premium . |
| 20 | Every immigrant family carries this sense of pain somewhere in its psyche , but often it is left to the women to hold the sense of pain and loss while the husbands and children find their way in the new world . |
| 21 | Right , erm , very often it 's to do with making up a painting or a picture of some a picture of some kind is n't it , sticking different bits together , so if you get a , a collection of different things which makes a whole , whole with a w right . |
| 22 | Very often it 's to try and take advantage of price deals , but also it 's because we now know there perhaps is n't the urgency to buy a holiday in February because we know there 'll be plenty around still in June or July . |