Example sentences of "[noun sg] often [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rafiq was studying his magazine with the kind of intense concentration often assumed by those who are listening to other people 's conversations . |
| 2 | There is one more equation often used in electrostatics that contains charge and not charge density . |
| 3 | Calves may show clinical signs during the prepatent period and occasionally a massive infection can cause severe dyspnoea of sudden onset often followed by death in 24-48 hours . |
| 4 | This kind of statement , issued by a large and highly successful international publishing company could help to mitigate the sense of isolation often felt by those teachers attempting to tackle these issues , often in less than supportive circumstances . |
| 5 | On the one hand , the sterility of machine culture and the terrible isolation often felt by people even in overcrowded cities ; on the other hand , a taking for granted of many basic rights and freedoms which in your day have not even been thought |
| 6 | A number of reviews of Karajan 's early recordings with the Philharmonia Orchestra were written by the precociously gifted Andrew Porter , a critic often quoted by the anti-Karajan lobby or adulatory biographers looking to add some grist to the mill . |
| 7 | A term often applied to a large group system is an organisation and these are usually created to accomplish a specific purpose , for example a hospital is organised for the treatment of people with disease ; and is perhaps within a yet larger organisation , a national health service , which in addition is responsible for maintenance of health , prevention of disease and rehabilitation . |
| 8 | It is a term often used in the description of military medals and badges . |
| 9 | The remedy often suggested is to get iron into the system quickly by foliar feeding . |
| 10 | The debtor himself has to apply for this type of order , in practice often encouraged by the plaintiff . |
| 11 | However , none of these changes affected the sexual division of labour within the home , and the equality of tasks and responsibilities that began to be envisioned for husbands and wives after World War II was in practice often associated with subordinate and superior status . |
| 12 | The urban poor tried valiantly to give to their dead a dignity they had scarcely known in life ; but the attempt often proved unavailing . |
| 13 | And vacuum extraction often suffered blockages because the debris was sodden . |
| 14 | The result of this scholarly study often produced tall houses such as this , with a semi-basement to rise above the damp and a stairway up to the main floor to add importance . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | These changes in social identity set the parameters of potential riots , but the actual incidence and seriousness of rioting often depended on the actions of individual officials and the presence of random catalysts which could prompt disturbances . |
| 17 | There are obvious analogies to the immune system , including the fact that these proteins can be induced and that there are extremes of individual variability often related to the presence of polymorphisms that can lead on occasion to hypersusceptibility to the effects of environmentally derived agents . |
| 18 | Their self-image was that of the chosen few for whom the spectacle provided an inexhaustible supply of objects ( and people ) to hate , and whilst the apparent ease with which they targeted and disposed of their opposition often made good copy ( the endless adventure , the scandal , etc. ) , there is a sense in which the hectoring tone of their documents became repetitive and wearisome . |
| 19 | After that Creggan often talked to her , sometimes in a barest whisper that only she could hear , and other times more powerfully so that others could share her dream and inner peacefulness . |
| 20 | Long-term social change , frequently defined as modernization but in studies of crime often measured by urbanization , is in this book defined by the expansion of the market economy . |
| 21 | If a woman is raped or sexually assaulted and this involved penetration , the violence and force often involved may cause injuries to the genital area and other parts of the body which will often draw blood , and therefore pose some risk of HIV infection . |
| 22 | Mummy often read to us before we went to bed , ‘ William ’ stories were our favourite and hers . |
| 23 | And there seems no doubt that this intense life of the mind often reached a point either of aching or of languor . |
| 24 | Maintenance expense often overlooked by data-base designers |
| 25 | Although early progress in study of environmental perception often related to socioeconomic geography such as the attitudes of farmers to the drought hazard on the Great Plains ( Saarinen , 1966 ) , later research concentrated more upon the physical environment and the fascinating evaluation of myth and reality in the context of a volcanic eruption in Papua New Guinea ( Blong , 1982 ) has already been referred to . |
| 26 | A Roman citizen often owned slaves who worked his land growing wheat ; a feudal lord would seize the surplus wheat grown by the serf on the lands of medieval Europe ; the early capitalist farmers began to employ landless labourers to do their manual work for a wage which was less than the total value of the product which they created . |
| 27 | The control of the state apparatus , the manipulation of elections , the granting of privileges , and the control of violence often rendered the political class relatively autonomous and independent of interests or at least able to discriminate among them |
| 28 | Conditions for co-operation included total subservience to Mosley 's leadership , and for those like Leese who objected , unofficial violence often resulted . |
| 29 | One alternative often offered by professionals as a solution to personal assistance needs requires young people to work long hours for a ‘ dole plus ’ package . |
| 30 | Accordingly workers striking on an economic upswing often found employers more ready to negotiate than to prosecute , although if masters decided to combine to take on the union by resisting a wage demand or even enforcing a cut and bound themselves not to employ each other 's dismissed workmen , the law might be a more ready resort . |