Example sentences of "often [adj] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is often preferable to offer the necessary quantity of food as two meals , morning and evening , so the dog 's stomach remains fuller over a longer period . |
| 2 | If the patina has been stuck on , then it is often possible to detect the organic binder or glue quite easily , either by application of various solvents , or by exposure to ultra-violet radiation . |
| 3 | It is often possible to see the vestigial remains of rear limbs on these large snakes . |
| 4 | By plotting the position of stray finds on a map , it is often possible to pinpoint the archaeological site from which they came . |
| 5 | It is often possible to identify the characteristic eggs from a faecal sample , but regular treatment against this and other similar parasites is usually deemed preferable . |
| 6 | Despite these manifold advantages it is often hard to persuade the commercial community even to take an interest in proposals for harmonization affecting their sphere of business , still less to give the proposals their support . |
| 7 | It is often hard to gauge the exact nature of feminist involvement . |
| 8 | Thirdly , it is often helpful to consider the opposite — as Mitchell does here . |
| 9 | Children often long to escape the parental home and a parent may be severely critical of one particular son or daughter . |
| 10 | Finally , the total rates collected by this method were often inadequate to meet the increasing cost of local government spending on education , etc . |
| 11 | A firm is often able to ignore the social costs imposed by pollution , congestion or noise associated with its operations . |
| 12 | It was often difficult to dislike the gentle , painted hippies , even though they subscribed to a strange new communal , non-hierarchic lifestyle incorporating the unlawful use of ‘ dope ’ . |
| 13 | We have seen that it was often difficult to isolate the various sub-domains condensed and subsumed under the general categories of morality and immorality . |
| 14 | Native speakers do not recognise this , but foreign learners of English notice that it is often difficult to hear the unstressed parts of a word in ordinary speech . |
| 15 | Surgery is often necessary to remove the affected eye and prevent the fatal spread of the tumour of the brain . |