Example sentences of "is often [vb pp] [conj] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Conversation between strange women at the beginning of a party is often strained and this occasion proved to be no exception .
2 It is often said that more damage is done inside the hangar than out !
3 The most important ingredient in the construction stage is time but , although this is sometimes a source of worry at the beginning , in practice it is often found that this stage is less time-consuming than the planning stages .
4 Thus , while Richard Johnson refers to the counter-education challenge to traditional education by the student movement , and the women 's movement in the early 1970s , it is often forgotten that another site of opposition was in community-based education and action in working-class communities .
5 Indeed , it is often claimed that some family firms preferred to avoid being profit-maximisers and take a safe return from past investments .
6 It is often recommended that such work is coordinated by a ‘ key worker ’ .
7 Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography is more likely to be associated with hypoxia as this procedure is often of longer duration ; a combination of sedatives is often used and many patients have underlying cardiorespiratory disorders .
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