Example sentences of "are often [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , other potentially harmful compounds such as phosphates and sulphates are often extracted at the same time . |
| 2 | There are , for example , subsidies in the form of grants and , until 1988 , tax advantages available to individuals willing to invest in forestry and which are often seen as the major impetus to afforestation and reforestation with little regard to the environmental consequences . |
| 3 | Contracts are often written in the future tense , presumably on the basis that they refer to acts to be performed in the future . |
| 4 | This could also be because women with unexplained lower abdominal pain are often referred in the first instance to gynaecologists , who may not consider an intestinal cause until they have removed the pelvic organs . |
| 5 | From the surrounding dales , Ingleborough 's finer parts are often hidden by the billowing folds of its foothills , but from a distance the stepped profile is easily recognisable , and dominates the countryside of West Craven . |
| 6 | Time and empathy are often lacking in the doctor-patient encounter ; high-tech medicine sometimes turns patients into numbers labelled with a diagnosis ; and since many diseases have become curable , some patients expect a cure for all ailments . |
| 7 | But we are often faced with the experienced need to make ‘ sense ’ of our lives and our feelings and goals , to relate confused fragments of ourselves into something that seems more coherent and of which we feel more in control . |
| 8 | These deals are often sought by the European companies , as they are seen as a reciprocal entry ticket to the Japanese market . |
| 9 | Certain restrictions are often imposed for the common good of inhabitants in an area . |
| 10 | Loaf-tin shaped varieties are seldom tasty or worth eating and are often cooked without the flavoursome larding of fat . |
| 11 | These reconstructions are often made of the organic elements of a composite implement : a reconstructed wooden shaft might be fitted to a bronze spearhead to give a better impression of its original appearance . |
| 12 | Messages about emotional patterns are often expressed through the physical body . |
| 13 | He is baffled that his meetings with foreign dignitaries are often relegated to the news-in-brief columns . |
| 14 | One very useful feature was the lack of glass braces which are often found around the inside openings of less robustly built aquariums , as this allowed much more flexibility in fitting items such as the filter . |
| 15 | They were , however , very much more abundant 350 million years ago and their fossils are often found in the same sort of deposits that contain coelacanths . |
| 16 | Although twice as high a proportion of tropical plants contain potentially toxic alkaloids compared with extra-tropical ones and , although these are often concentrated in the young tissues of plants , insects specializing on such tissues may have rather unsophisticated problems compared with those feeding on mature leaves , where so much ‘ secondary chemistry ’ is manifest . |
| 17 | The textiles themselves are normally known as a result of being preserved by corrosion , where they have been in contact with metal objects in graves ; wood and leather are often preserved in the same manner . |
| 18 | Remember , we are often drawn to the essential oil we may actually need at the time . |
| 19 | Museum locations are often shortened after the initial reference . |
| 20 | It may be noticed that insensibility both to moral appeals and to appeals to one 's future interests , imprisonment within both ‘ I ’ and ‘ Now ’ , are often combined in the same person , and that the combination is widely accepted as the strongest criterion for classing him as ‘ psychopathic ’ and exempting him from moral judgment . |
| 21 | At the local level , where departments are often housed in the same buildings , and where officers and councillors — as well as prominent local interest group officials , journalists , council ‘ clients ’ ( headmasters , businessmen , builders , and so on ) — live in the same locality , the informal dimension is especially important and should not be obscured by undue emphasis on formal hierarchies . |
| 22 | Both classical and contemporary plays will be chosen , but problems are often encountered with the modern play which frequently has a short cast list . |
| 23 | The Belouch nomads who roam the borderlands of Persia and Afghanistan are often included in the general Turkoman group , although their rugs are sufficiently different in character and appearance to warrant a separate classification . |
| 24 | Interdigitating dendritic cells are therefore believed to function primarily as antigen presenting cells , although they are often included in the generic term ‘ macrophages ’ . |
| 25 | The following woodwind instruments , in addition to those described above , are often used in the full orchestra . |
| 26 | Cars and lorries of all sizes are often used in the same way , with roadways , intersections , bridges and unloading bays made from blocks or other materials . |
| 27 | Chapter 1 outlines the fundamental concepts of chromatography , leading into more detailed coverage of band broadening mechanisms and peak-shape models — important areas which are often overlooked in the current literature . |
| 28 | The political activity of women is limited and , in the few cases where they do achieve positions of some power , these positions are often linked to the traditional female role . |
| 29 | Poems are often published in the daily and weekly newspapers and the Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs ( Direcção Regional dos Assuntos Culturais or DRAC ) publishes a wide variety of books on Madeira covering history , folklore , reminiscences and poetry . |
| 30 | Sloping drives are often left with the parallel ridges made by the tamping board . |