Example sentences of "often [vb pp] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bargaining is often carried out over a period of days , so it 's fortunate that a four- night B&B break at a three-star hotel near the market , is £219 in February and March . |
| 2 | As head of government from 1985 to 1988 , Mr Junejo often looked more like a schoolteacher than a political leader and was a strict disciplinarian . |
| 3 | I 've often come home from a job , or visiting so-called happily married friends , and thanked heaven fasting for my lot . |
| 4 | Formal signals are often grouped together in an induction programme , and so anxious are we to reduce the total uncertainty to something we can understand that we will swallow the formal induction without even a whimper . |
| 5 | Yet this , too , is often seen not as a value but as an additional reason for not taking the genre seriously . |
| 6 | This type of patterning is often used instead of a hem for jacket edgings and cuffs . |
| 7 | But many sidle in , hiding behind a shopping list of the equipment they think they need ( often drawn up by a friend ) or picked at random from a magazine ) . |
| 8 | At its most basic level , formal structure refers to the physical shape of the organisation the distribution of jobs and lines of command often set out in an organisation chart , if the firm in question has one . |
| 9 | The middle- and upper-class adopt a fairly Western lifestyle , though the children are often brought up by a live-in ‘ helper ’ . |
| 10 | Jealousy is often brought about by a feeling of lack : lack of love ; lack of understanding from others ; lack of career advancement ; lack of money ; lack of opportunity - we could go on indefinitely . |
| 11 | The Teddy Boys also coexisted with compulsory military service — which is so often wheeled out as a panacea for the troubles of youth — and national service was even condemned in the 1950s as ‘ a positive adverse influence on young people ’ because of the way in which it interrupted the transition from school to work and encouraged an ‘ eat , drink and be merry ’ philosophy . |
| 12 | They can be so noisy that they are often switched off during an autopsy , increasing the level of air pollution and the risk of acquisition of air-borne infections . |
| 13 | Bug fixes are quite often sent out as a matter of course to registered users — non-registered users might never get to hear about them , and be stuck with bugged software . |
| 14 | Children 's communications are often expressed indirectly in a sort of ‘ code ’ . |
| 15 | The thatched houses often consisted only of a roof of pandanus or coconut leaves on four poles , with rolled-up slats of interwoven pandanus leaves which could be lowered in case of rain . |
| 16 | ‘ The context in which a film is viewed can determine much of an audience 's response , ’ Donal Sheehan adds , ‘ lesbian and gay film making is often aimed specifically at a lesbian and gay audience and is most effective when viewed in that context . ’ |