Example sentences of "as is often [art] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He was a hard , practical man and yet , as is often the way , he indulged Andrew beyond all reason . ’ |
| 2 | As is often the case , some last-minute idea blossoms while what had seemed a brilliant solution and been pondered for ages falls quite flat . |
| 3 | A professional designer , Jean Bayle , with a track record for breathing new life into tired titles , was hired but the changes he favoured were deemed rather too radical and , in the end — as is often the case on Le Monde where the staff hold a significant stake in the company — the consensus view prevailed . |
| 4 | In the one instance of domestic violence we encountered during field-work , the officers arrested the man against the protestations of the wife , as is often the case ( see Fielding et al . |
| 5 | Further , as is often the case , the clinical conditions might be regarded as rather extreme cases of variability in the ease with which we adjust our body clock , a process that is found normally within the human population . |
| 6 | As is often the case , they contain some truth and can be used constructively when attempting to deal with jet-lag . |
| 7 | If anaerobic conditions are required , as is often the case with chlorinated organics , nitrate may be added as a terminal electron acceptor . |
| 8 | Many years after the war the story of how the Enigma code was eventually broken was told and , as is often the case with officially approved histories , it was implied that the success was entirely that of GCCS . |
| 9 | Where there exists such a reluctance to carry out the correct diagnostic procedures or , as is often the case , there is simply a dearth of properly trained specialists , the natural result is treatment without diagnosis , the haphazard use of antibiotics ( such as penicillin for all urethral discharges ) , and an increase in antibiotic resistance of the gonococci coupled with an infuriating denial of the problem , ‘ Just look at our figures . |
| 10 | Dr Carrington was trained as a physician and a psychiatrist ; however , particularly as he became more ill , his professional mantle dropped away from him , as is often the case , and he became more simply a sick human . |
| 11 | If the hands are too far forwards , as is often the case , the back arm being so close to the CE can not take all the strain and tends to sheet out causing the board to turn into the wind . |
| 12 | However , as is often the case in wartime , women have stepped into some positions previously held by men . |
| 13 | As is often the case with such surveys , no clear consensus emerged over many of the questions and some apparently contradictory points were made ( ‘ Not enough homework ’ ; ‘ too heavy a coursework load ’ ) but the whole exercise must have yielded useful information for teachers and a welcome awareness among parents that here is an open school much concerned about the quality of experience it offers its students and responsive to the views of all partners in the education service . |
| 14 | The equipment is continuously available and no special scheduling is required , as is often the case with animals . |
| 15 | As is often the case , science has simply caught up with the hobbyist on this point , as synspilum is quite obviously different from melanurum , and from other Theraps , when you see one swimming round your tank , especially when it is an adult in full colour . |
| 16 | Bars 1–4 are based on the E minor pentatonic scale : E , G , A , B , D. As is often the case in a blues style song , though the underlying chord may be major and frequently dominant ( in this case E7 : root E , major 3rd G&sharp ; , 5th B , ♭7th D ) , the melody or soloist will often make use of a flattened 3rd interval ( here a G ) to help create a bluesy mood . |
| 17 | As is often the case in such circumstances , the accountant has delayed submission of later accounts pending settlement of the enquiries and establishment of the true liability . |
| 18 | As is often the case in matters of corporate governance , the lead is likely to be taken by the chairmen of companies in which standards of governance are already high , rather than by those who head companies with the greatest scope for strengthening their public accountability . |
| 19 | As is often the case , much of the ‘ aid , was more or less off-loaded to clear warehouses in the donor country with little thought of its use to the victims of catastrophe . |
| 20 | And , as is often the case in the media , literary texts have the habit of not turning out to mean what might be expected at first sight . |
| 21 | As is often the case , his boredom was mixed with nostalgia , and so when he set out to create something new , he also had something borrowed in mind . |
| 22 | The CB here would be ‘ dry bed ’ , but it is not necessary — as is often the case — to record this separately since all the necessary information is obtained by recording wet days . |
| 23 | The idea is not so much to seek causes and explanations , as is often the case with survey-style research , but rather to ‘ tell it like it is , . |
| 24 | Also , we had no ‘ medical ’ back-up , as is often the case in special schools , therefore we felt unable to meet the needs of students with profound multiple disabilities . |
| 25 | As is often the case , what one actually hears and what one thinks one hears , can be two very different things . ’ |
| 26 | This is seen as a shade different from the enforcement of a sentence as such ; and there can be a practical difference where , as is often the case , the enforcing State keeps the confiscated property rather than than transmitting it to the State in which the order was made . |
| 27 | If these can not be readily appreciated by children — as is often the case with young children who are typically limited to understanding tasks which make immediate sense — then children will produce inappropriate responses and apparently lack the mental capacity in question . |
| 28 | But they vary considerably in their anatomy and , as is often the case when considering the simpler members of a group , it is sometimes difficult to decide whether a characteristic represents a truly primitive survival or is secondarily reduced to suit a particular way of life . |
| 29 | Staff allocated in this way should be experienced nurses and not , as is often the case , the more recently trained . |
| 30 | This is valuable , for example , when ( as is often the case in dynamical problems ) A is sparse . |