Example sentences of "is often [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Other than the fact that they provide a satisfactory explanation , there is often no independent test of their truth . |
| 3 | Being well brought up is often no defence against it . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Yet there is often no effective therapy for these diseases . |
| 6 | Having said that , there is often no clear distinction between allergy and intolerance ( see p 9 ) , especially in children . |
| 7 | In particular , when it comes to the assessment of efficacy , there is often no single physicochemical parameter that is adequate to predict clinical performance . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There is often no provision made , or considered adequate for elderly relatives without causing gross inconvenience to all parties . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | For example , why is it that personnel appointments take so long to be announced when there is often no adequate reason for the delay ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | There is often no optimal design , treatment or solution ; better in one way means worse in another . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Is it also true to say that their guess is often no better than your own ? |
| 20 | Wild camping is not encouraged , but in wild country there is often no alternative — if a camp-site is available , it must be used . |
| 21 | Any broader benefit to less glamorous plants and animals is often no more than a happy accident . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In the case of remand prisoners there is often no opportunity to work , even if they wish to do so . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The temperature rise is often no more than a degree or two . |
| 26 | There is often no reason to expect such patterns and one may expect that longitudinal correlations will usually give a curve such as A ( Fig. 19.5 ) . |
| 27 | Many arguments have been advanced against the death penalty , but the one that has most relevance for me is the fact that in the present state of our society , there is often no certainty that the right man has been convicted . |
| 28 | In a case like this it is often a matter of assessing quickly ‘ Am I sure that I can reach the field , or if I get more sink will I fail to get there ? ’ |
| 29 | This is often a sign of nervousness and usually means that more spin training is needed . |
| 30 | There is often a tendency for pilots to think that , because they are solo and have managed a few soaring flights and their Bronze C , they should be allowed to go cross-country . |