Example sentences of "[be] often [vb pp] [that] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 They are often told that gross over-ruddering is needed to spin , but this is not the case .
2 It is often assumed that textual discussion must be complex to be acceptable .
3 It is often said that Japanese management concentrates on the Soft S 's whilst Western management concentrates on the Hard S's .
4 It is often said that unfettered insider dealing does not hurt shareholders ; that insiders ' profits are not outsiders ' losses , but rather evidence of a more efficient allocation of resources ; Just because an investor does not make as much money on the sale of his shares as he would otherwise have done , does not make him a victim in the true sense , as nothing has been stolen from him .
5 It is often said that more damage is done inside the hangar than out !
6 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 .
7 This is why it is often stressed that strategic change must be supported by top managers .
8 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 .
9 Indeed , it is often claimed that some family firms preferred to avoid being profit-maximisers and take a safe return from past investments .
10 It is often recommended that such work is coordinated by a ‘ key worker ’ .
11 With regard to the first , it was often argued that Afro-Caribbean family and child-rearing patterns harmed the intellectual and educational development of black children , but the misleading assumptions about these patterns and consequences have now been effectively contested ( Cross , 1978 ; Reeves and Chevannes , 1983 ) .
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