Example sentences of "often [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mushroom polyps will often reproduce in the aquarium under good conditions . |
| 2 | Even if the walker or climber has an ice axe they only have two or three seconds to stop themselves before their bodies , often clad in slippy waterproofs , pick up speed . |
| 3 | They often remain in a state of despair that the world at large and their nearest friends and relatives treat them so badly . |
| 4 | Compared to states or executives , governments tend to be of short duration — state institutions often remain in existence for long periods and officials in the executive may have lifelong careers , while governments come and go ( although some of their personnel may hold office in more than one government ) . |
| 5 | Instead , she writes of those ordinary people who make the miracle , and often suffer in the process : the sarariman painfully climbing the corporate ladder ; the schoolchildren taught to prefer homework to sleep ; the housewives left alone with their drudgery . |
| 6 | Oh yes , it often irritates in the same way when you first start to drink spirits you feel |
| 7 | Mr Norman has more than one Ferrari , uses his Aston Martin as often as the Rolls-Royce but admits that Laura , his wife , often goes in the family Range Rover to have her hair done . |
| 8 | Stream of consciousness and a variety of other devices are used to transcribe an inner mental world at the expense of the external social experience most often favoured in the conventional , realistic forms of earlier fiction . |
| 9 | After Bronze Age times , British groups became more heterogeneous with each successive invasion , and although some skull ‘ types ’ or ‘ forms ’ often predominate in a series , morphological distinctions between populations must rely even more on statistical analyses of measurements . |
| 10 | The ginkgos are often placed in a separate group . |
| 11 | In Tsarist Russia , icons were often placed in railway-station waiting-rooms and in Greece there were shrines at stations where the traveller could light candles to protect him on his journey . |
| 12 | This means that the basis of all single bed tucks must be single stitches , often placed in groups spaced one needle apart , producing the overall pattern . |
| 13 | As a consequence , foreign ships were often chartered in preference to British . |
| 14 | Transactions are often completed in the middle of the night . |
| 15 | Transactions are often completed in the middle of the night . |
| 16 | Southern species often sit in dirt roads or sandy tracks and appear in car headlights . |
| 17 | I often sit in the dunes |
| 18 | Although they are often listed in London or Luxembourg , this is largely in order to comply with regulations which bar some institutional investors from holding unlisted securities . |
| 19 | Wine was splashed from jug to cup and then often drained in one loud gulp . |
| 20 | Statements by officials , including some made by ministers in Parliament , have been used too often to mislead in connection with Ulster affairs . |
| 21 | I think it is the critical statements , rather than the words of praise , that are more often uttered in the hearing of girls . |
| 22 | When he did not speak , but just jerked his head as if a fly had buzzed near his ear and irritated him , when he did not greet her , not even by name , let alone with the caressing words she had so often uttered in her games of make-believe , Rosa began , murmuringly , ‘ I did n't know when to come down , I wanted to be sure no one was awake … . ’ |
| 23 | For years , US judges have relied on the standard , dating back to 1923 and too often honoured in the breach , defining admissible evidence as that which derives from methods of inquiry that are ‘ generally accepted ’ by the scientific community . |
| 24 | The shepherding within the house church movement has also met a need in people seeking direction , howbeit often given in an over-paternalized way . |
| 25 | Aminoglycosides are often given in insufficiently high doses . |
| 26 | Family-trees ( genealogies ) similar to this one are often given in the Bible attesting a line of descent . |
| 27 | The imaginative subject — these are the subjects I find most often given in school today . |
| 28 | Some relief was often given in kind , although as Eleanor Rathbone reported , most women resented the ignominy of ‘ fetching the parish ’ and the fatigue of a journey to claim the usually stale and monotonous food . |
| 29 | As the debate about contracting , fundholding , rationing , waiting list initiatives , and the patient 's charter rages it is important to document the incidence of complications , which — unlike the primary condition — are often treated in local provider units . |
| 30 | In the late landscapes of Cézanne the sky is often treated in much the same way — as a complicated system of small , thickly painted facets or planes inextricably fused , and having a quality of weight and material existence . |