Example sentences of "is often [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In theory Green Belt and urban fringe land should form an important recreational resource for inner city residents but in practice this is often far from the case . |
| 2 | This is often far from the case and many a combination has come to grief at the very last fence . |
| 3 | Simply obtaining the optimal solution to a linear programming problem is often far from the end of the story . |
| 4 | Certainly no generalisation can be made except that the successful diffusion of the knowledge of soil conserving practices is often one essential change that is required — even although the knowledge may be possessed by some cultivators already . |
| 5 | One company commented that the attitude to the information in such studies as it purchases is often one of ‘ how interesting ’ , rather than one of seeking to put the information to use . |
| 6 | The role of air hostesses , models , actresses , public relations officers , sales representatives , promotion girls and personal assistants is often one of sexual window-dressing and male ego-boosting . |
| 7 | The picture is often one of violent and rapid mood swings in response to stress . |
| 8 | Not surprisingly , perhaps , most chemical-sensitive patients can not tolerate alcohol — this is often one of the earliest symptoms . |
| 9 | Either way , when seen through an electron microscope , the result is often one of startling and beautiful variety in miniature . |
| 10 | Flows of assistance between generations provide us with an important example where , in practice , support is often one way , and where apparently this is regarded as quite proper . |
| 11 | When it is equally strong in both nostrils , then the hammerhead swims straight ahead — and is often one of the first predators to reach the scene . |
| 12 | Space is often one of the most limiting factors in any attempt to create a genuinely open-ended learning situation , and planning for its most effective use puts heavy demands on the imagination and organizing ability of teachers and administrators . |
| 13 | It does , however , lose what is often one of the main advantages of laser-Doppler anemometry , the fact that there is no probe to disturb the flow . |
| 14 | Managing Director of P&O European Ferries ( Portsmouth ) , Richard Martin , said : ‘ Sponsorship is often one of the first areas to be threatened during times of economic hardship . |
| 15 | If no paper is produced from a thesis on a particular area , it is often other students who are most inconvenienced , rather than the Survey , who have a network of university contacts , and good inter-library loan facilities . |
| 16 | The costs involved in litigation are very high , and the delay in having a civil action heard in the High Court is often two years from the issue of a writ of summons . |
| 17 | It is true that many people cling to office , or are permitted to do so , and it is often that barnacle-like permanence which gives committees and boards a sense of dull sameness and an unwillingness to reform . |
| 18 | On one level , whilst the rhetoric of such intervention is often that of the free market , the logic seems to differ little from that of social engineering and regional policy which was commonly thought out of fashion and eschewed in such circles over ten years ago . |
| 19 | As in the work of his favourite poet , P. Edward Thomas [ q.v. ] , the darkness is often that of the forest . |
| 20 | IN astronomy , the boast is often that biggest is best . |
| 21 | What can be deduced from a self-portrait is often controversial ; a critic is especially likely to read into a self-portrait some opinion held about the artist . |
| 22 | The process is fast — about 4–6 minutes for the cream and 6–8 minutes for the mousse — and as it dissolves hair a little below the surface of the skin , the result is often smoother , without stubble , and a slower regrowth then shaving . |
| 23 | Typically , the nutrients added are limited to sources of ammonia , nitrogen and orthophosphate , while the electron acceptor is often molecular oxygen delivered as hydrogen peroxide . |
| 24 | In the kinds of society which anthropologists usually study , where kinship links of one kind or another ramify throughout the individual 's social world , this contrast is often explicit . |
| 25 | The social anthropologist , for his part , while stressing the importance of social interaction ( and thus joining forces with much that is practised in the name of ‘ psychodynamics ’ ) is often over-simplistic in the unacknowledged psychological assumptions he makes about people 's inner feelings and mental states . |
| 26 | Instead , it is often simpler to make use of open-ended or indefinite contracts , the same contracts as are applied to other , " permanent " members of staff . |
| 27 | Their bark is often worse than their bite . |
| 28 | The fear of death is often worse than death itself . |
| 29 | The behaviour of trajectories on an attractor that exhibits sensitivity to initial conditions is strange and unexpected , and the geometry of such an attractor is often strange and complicated . |
| 30 | The difference between stock and flow valuations is often substantial . |