Example sentences of "[be] often no " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the night-time itching has been put down to the nocturnal habits of the mite , it is interesting that for the first few weeks of infestation , when the mites are presumably just as active , there are often no symptoms at all . |
| 2 | There is some convincing research that they are often no better than if the manager had simply stuck a pin in at random amongst the names of candidates . |
| 3 | On occasion , zones will be requested to submit notional breakdowns on their expenditure for the forthcoming year , but such submissions are often no more than the haziest guides to real expenditure . |
| 4 | On the other hand , such schemes inevitably create anomalies : chosen beneficiaries are often no more ‘ worthy ’ of compensation than other victims of government action who are not covered by a similar scheme . |
| 5 | Conditions at sea were well known to be squalid and comfortless , wages beggarly , food too often no more than salt beef and weevilly biscuit , while officers were often no more than petty tyrants . |
| 6 | ‘ Graphic designers are often asked to do a great deal in a comparatively short space of time , ’ acknowledges Peter Brigg , ‘ but that 's because there 's often no substitute for the printed document . |
| 7 | The taste is good enough to send half a million people a year squirrelling around in the woods of northern Michigan , in search of something that is often no more than a couple of inches high and is usually hidden under a thick pile of forest-floor debris . |
| 8 | Other than the fact that they provide a satisfactory explanation , there is often no independent test of their truth . |
| 9 | Being well brought up is often no defence against it . |
| 10 | Depending on the time of year , the Chelt at this point is often no more than a trickle , although after heavy rain it can rapidly become a muddy torrent , rushing through the fields ( and now beneath the M5 motorway ) , via Butlers Court , to the next mill at Boddington . |
| 11 | Yet there is often no effective therapy for these diseases . |
| 12 | Having said that , there is often no clear distinction between allergy and intolerance ( see p 9 ) , especially in children . |
| 13 | In particular , when it comes to the assessment of efficacy , there is often no single physicochemical parameter that is adequate to predict clinical performance . |
| 14 | This may depend on their level of awareness , or , as Edward de Bono puts it in his Second Law of Thinking , what appears to be ‘ proof ’ is often no more than a lack of imagination in providing an alternative explanation . |
| 15 | Here again the link between birth and death is clear , as there is often no firm distinction between ‘ womb ’ and ‘ tomb ’ in the physical construction of the chambers , or in the states that the participant is expected to experience . |
| 16 | I have been present at occasions of celebration when poets and singers — there is often no distinction since poems tend to be sung or chanted — have made up verses on the spot and provided a seemingly endless number of embellishments . |
| 17 | There is often no provision made , or considered adequate for elderly relatives without causing gross inconvenience to all parties . |
| 18 | Hearing people are members of the dominant culture , who usually wish to preserve their hearing status and whose length of stay among deaf people is often no more than a few hours at a time . |
| 19 | In reality biological knowledge is often no more secure than psychological knowledge but psychologists often feel a sense of inferiority in the face of biological data . |
| 20 | Despite the Children Act , there is often no partnership with parents with learning difficulties so they remain disadvantaged and may even risk losing their children . |
| 21 | For example , why is it that personnel appointments take so long to be announced when there is often no adequate reason for the delay ? |
| 22 | For the modern Christian , however , there is often no awareness of the geographical and political relation between these places , how far they might be from each other , how long a journey from one to the other might take . |
| 23 | There is often no optimal design , treatment or solution ; better in one way means worse in another . |
| 24 | For this reason , this chapter also includes full-scale models of monsters and other odd creatures ; at the level of design there is often no difference at all , though there may well be when it comes to turning design into physical form . |
| 25 | Is it also true to say that their guess is often no better than your own ? |
| 26 | Wild camping is not encouraged , but in wild country there is often no alternative — if a camp-site is available , it must be used . |
| 27 | Any broader benefit to less glamorous plants and animals is often no more than a happy accident . |
| 28 | It has been argued by Mancur Olson ( 1965 ) that there is often no incentive to go to the expense and trouble of joining a group , especially when the group is large , because it may make no difference to that particular individual . |
| 29 | In the case of remand prisoners there is often no opportunity to work , even if they wish to do so . |
| 30 | The range of possible scientometric measures involving the use of citation counts in association with other factors is large , but the field is so fluid at present that many recent papers suggest new combinations of factors , whereas there is often no theoretical basis for these measures . |