Example sentences of "[noun sg] often [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it remains a fact that then , as now , even those highly motivated to peaceful living often find that there is a power working against them from within . |
| 2 | Feminist extensions of conventional psychological methodology often resemble more explicitly oppositional programmes for social scientific method . |
| 3 | Early or semi-retired people or housewives looking for a break often welcome a different four walls and a fresh interest . |
| 4 | In particular the expectations of research often do not match the actual practice of their supervisors . |
| 5 | Forestry or fishing often provide small farmers with a second , supplementary occupation without which family incomes would be much lower . |
| 6 | Editor , — New patients registering with our general practice often complain about the time it takes us to get their NHS notes from the family health services authority . |
| 7 | In late spring , snow surfaces within a few hundred metres of the coast often show a flush of colour , usually pink , green or brownish-yellow , caused by patches of unicellular or colonial algae . |
| 8 | Some argue that cheap imports are a waste of money — others say widely differing prices are being charged for exactly the same product and that suppliers which criticise imported cutlery often stock it themselves . |
| 9 | Families in therapy often say that one of their children is particularly good while another is especially difficult . |
| 10 | Those who practise these branches of study often mistake them for spheres of knowledge when they are more accurately seen as examples of dialectic or rhetoric — ideas which may be better aired in talk . |
| 11 | Many people in the north-east often feel marginalised and that their views are not taken into account . |
| 12 | Media reports of torture often generate widespread public outrage . |
| 13 | School leavers , or inexperienced people joining the industry often get jobs in riding schools or competition yards where they gain practical experience . |
| 14 | The reversion of criticism , at least in academies , from practice to theory after the demise of Scrutiny in 1953 and the appearance of Empson 's last lifetime book in 1961 was perhaps something to be expected , as failures of nerve often follow phases of confidence and excess . |
| 15 | The children engaged in crime often come from families where there is high unemployment already and where the prospects of employment are actually denied school leavers . |
| 16 | As well as distortions to the official figures produced by police recording practice , there are a variety of reasons why victims of crime often do not report offences . |
| 17 | Old boys of the Academy and the New English Art Club often work most purposefully for their peers , familiars and friends . |
| 18 | Basic provision of shelter , heat and light often consume more than half the total income of unemployed claimants . |
| 19 | One must add to this that the limitations to an experiment often lie in the performance of transducers , and the experimentalist should always be on the alert for new possibilities . |
| 20 | Why , another member wanted to know , were the speeches of the president often cut short to make way for the programmes which follow ? |
| 21 | Asthma and eczema often alternate , the skin being worse when the asthma is better . |
| 22 | Guides to ideal weight often seem arbitrary and inflexible . |
| 23 | I think erm , often when judges , I do n't know whether George or any other judges that might be here tonight , one of the things which I as a judge often dread is photographs of babies coming up in competition . |
| 24 | Leapor 's comments on the personal failings of her superiors in the Chauncy household often reflect a struggle for recognition as a poet . |
| 25 | Those at home often need opiates ( morphine-like medicines ) for pain , while one in five will also need a special battery-operated syringe pump , especially if they are too weak to swallow . |
| 26 | But as Laurie Taylor and others have shown ( Taylor , 1976 ) , terms which originally begin life as terms of abuse or disapproval often become used by the victims of the term to mean something quite different . |
| 27 | The wines of this village often show great varietal character , good vinosity and fine balance . |
| 28 | Problems in criminal law often start with an inchoate crime — conspiracy , attempt or incitement . |
| 29 | The dual nature of disciplines , as bodies of knowledge and bodies of people , means that the difficulties of interdisciplinary work often take a concrete rather than abstract form ( Squires 1975 ; Levin and Lind 1985 ) Even when academics espouse ‘ construct ’ views of knowledge , they may find it difficult , in indefinable as well as definable ways , to work together in cross-disciplinary teams . |
| 30 | People who do shift work often choose far longer hours than the basic hours that the Labour party would have them work . |