Example sentences of "[is] often [vb pp] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | A heroin addict probably injects two or three times a day , but cocaine is often injected at regular 15-minute intervals until the drugs and the money have run out . |
| 2 | Although the reduced percentage of aneuploid tumours can be interpreted as a local response to radiotherapy the missing effect on survival points to the fact that oesophageal cancer is often diagnosed at a locally advanced or even disseminated stage . |
| 3 | It is often sprayed at blossom stage and is therefore impossible to wash off . |
| 4 | As it takes about two years to convert an idea to law through our parliamentary system , new legislation is often implemented at a time when the circumstances which gave rise to the idea have substantially altered . |
| 5 | These days the deal is often struck at the time of divorce ; and usually it 's that the house goes to your wife , for good . |
| 6 | The use of the word ‘ devolved ’ is intentional since , while formalized channels of communication exist for the conveyance of policy , service implementation is often determined at local level . |
| 7 | It is often based at a Community Mental Health Centre ( CMHC ) , although if it is , it is important that the supervisory and rehabilitation staff operate separately from the staff who provide the routine day-to-day mental health service , otherwise the needs of those in crisis may quickly push the needs of long-term sufferers into the background . |
| 8 | The formal work of the House is often seen at its best in committee . |
| 9 | However we realise that the decision to book an Amsterdam short break is often taken at the last minute and as we are specialists in arranging holidays at very short notice all bookings made within 7 days of departure are given ‘ PRIORITY STATUS ’ . |
| 10 | Something like a worm is often taken at once even if groundbaiting has not been carried out beforehand . |
| 11 | Often caused a plant which can , according to ordinary rules , be transplanted at one place , not to admit of this being accomplished with the same advantage at another place , but particular treatment is often required at each place . |
| 12 | For instance , the acceptance condition is often set at 90 per cent of the shares to which the offer relates in order to invoke the compulsory sale procedures under CA 1985 , s429 . |
| 13 | This is often set at 21 days after the posting of the offer document , which coincides with the first closing date of the offer . |
| 14 | Most LEAs are engaging in programmes of governor training , this is often aimed at a limited number of governors on the assumption that this will cascade through to the remainder . |
| 15 | One criticism which is often levelled at record reviewers is their frequent inability to reach even a mild degree of consensus regarding ‘ best ’ versions . |
| 16 | Craft specialization is often subsidized at the redistribution centre in a chiefdom society , so we should expect to see crafts flourishing in the temple culture of bronze age Crete : we should also expect to see craftsmen gathering in the temples , where the agricultural surpluses and imports were collected and redistributed . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , a diagnosis of psychosomatic illness is often arrived at by a much shorter and less strenuous route than this , particularly with female patients , who tend to be perceived as more ‘ nervy ’ . |
| 18 | Second , since intervention is often directed at the areas of relative weakness in a child 's linguistic abilities , it may be helpful to identify what these are and to what extent they are likely to impair the child 's ability to communicate in a variety of settings . |
| 19 | In industry , scientific research effort is often directed at increasing profit rather than improving the quality of life ( although science has of course improved the quality of people 's lives in many ways ) . |
| 20 | Criticism is often directed at the amount of time consumed by meetings . |
| 21 | While bird-watching is often used at an early stage in research to try to develop hypotheses and to make sure one does have some idea of how people behave before going any further , there is no reason why one should not develop more systematic recording schedules to standardize the observations and to develop more of a survey approach . |
| 22 | Advance details are published in the nursing press ( see Figure 1 ) and local radio advertising is often used at the time of the event . |