Example sentences of "often [verb] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cannabis Teenagers often insist that cannabis is harmless , but it has been shown to be a high risk for certain users . |
| 2 | Historians are rarely able to get to the truth of the matter in this way , but family stories often suggest that drunkenness was the reason for an otherwise inexplicable decline , not just in the Tudor and Stuart era but in much later times . |
| 3 | Although it is often claimed that exercise has a beneficial psychological effect in its own right , the evidence for this is scanty and it is always difficult to separate the specific effect of exercise from the moral support and social contact which usually goes with it . |
| 4 | It is often claimed that hypertension is prevalent in diabetic subjects ( Christlieb , 1982 ) , although the evidence for such a statement is conflicting and by no means universally accepted . |
| 5 | Writers of old recipes often claimed that lemon curd keeps for years . |
| 6 | For example , it is often said that testing assumes that intelligence can be quantified by a single number , as in a much-praised recent book , The Mismeasure of Man , by a palaeontologist , Stephen Jay Gould . |
| 7 | It is often said that Order 53 procedure is designed to be speedy and that cases raising significant disputes of fact are not suitable for resolution under Ord. 53 . |
| 8 | It is often said that delegation is the art of management . |
| 9 | It is often said that alcohol is ‘ the only little pleasure that old people have ’ , which may be true to an extent , but if drinking becomes a problem then it is for the individuals to decide how much of a pleasure drinking is , and whether they want help to stop . |
| 10 | It is often argued that survey data give a very limited analysis of managerial policies which are developed over a period to deal with specific problems and this study should help to test such methodological criticisms . |
| 11 | It is often argued that television has contributed much to the trivialization of politics in general and to the nomination process in particular . |
| 12 | Secondly , it is often argued that farm workers are compensated for their low wages by a cornucopia of payments in kind . |
| 13 | It is often thought that drug addiction is a failure of will-power and is evidence of a weak will or inadequate personality . |
| 14 | People often assume that personality and behaviour are one and the same and this leads to the erroneous assumption that because the fundamentals of your personality are relatively fixed so also is your behaviour . |
| 15 | The manufacturers of heavily regulated products , such as tobacco and alcohol , often find that promotion is less regulated and more cost-effective in less developed countries than in their own domestic markets . |
| 16 | Many of them often feel that baby has taken their place . |
| 17 | So we would examine socially determined personality differences between the sexes , why it is that men are always seen to be the intellectuals , things like that , They were important discussions as women often feel that community action is a mystery to them and that the only thing they can really understand is looking after the kids , I think the courses were a success because many campesina women became important leaders afterwards . |
| 18 | Dieters often feel that high-fat , high-sugar foods are so bad that they should be totally eliminated from a healthy eating plan . |
| 19 | After an accident it is often found that maintenance work as well as repairs is necessary and it is quite natural that the Policyholder will want both carried out at the same time . |
| 20 | It is often assumed that winter is the most suitable time for training yet only 43% indicated that any time during winter would be suitable . |
| 21 | However , as explained , such problems are often symptoms of deeper organisational and management problems : ‘ It is often assumed that stress is caused by too much work or tasks that are too difficult , but it is more likely to be because staff do n't have a context for what they are doing . ’ |
| 22 | For example , it is often assumed that multiculturalism is methodologically individualist , and reduces racism to an individual pathology of prejudice , whilst antiracism is radically holist and insists on the primacy of structural processes . |
| 23 | John McLaughlin often felt that guitar controllers lacked spontaneous reaction to attack , something that Lampi does n't have to worry about ( though McLaughlin 's new Photon system seems to work quite well over a range of sounds ) . |
| 24 | People often think that evolution is a process that occurs solely through time . |
| 25 | I often think that mountain rescue teams are just as selfless and courageous as life-boatmen , yet the organisations have different public profiles ! |
| 26 | If moving area , clients , though seemingly supportive , can often find that travel and lack of personal contact prove substantial disincentives to remaining with the solicitor . |