Example sentences of "often [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In short the pictures in an art museum have been closely monitored , often through decades and in a few cases for centuries , so full descriptions that appear in the catalogues have a thorough-paced authority . |
| 2 | It the impetus came I think largely from feminism and it was perhaps a way of of y'know kind of erm because there was a great deal of interest , particularly in the seventies , in cataloguing and understanding the various ways in which women were oppressed and this is one of the things came to light and often through things like consciousness raising groups . |
| 3 | Under a residual value system , prevention typically takes place at the tertiary level : work with children and families in imminent danger of separation , often through court proceedings . |
| 4 | The Act of 1918 set the scene of the entire political world between the wars , often through consequences that were not seen for a generation . |
| 5 | Prejudices , we 're all born with them , they 're if you like perceptions which are only changed very often through experience . |
| 6 | Where significant innovations have happened , it is astonishing how often through history other individuals or groups have been working along parallel lines of thought . |
| 7 | When we get into a panic ( often through stress , fear or anxiety ) , our breathing become rapid and shallow . |
| 8 | To that end we will be providing staff with up to date factual information , often through managers , who can keep staff briefed and explain the implications of the changes , not only for their hospital but for them individually . |
| 9 | So many girls get pregnant young , often through ignorance , and are subsequently traumatized by the whole experience of pregnancy and childbirth . |
| 10 | We will halt the deterioration which has taken place in the pay and conditions of many public service workers — often through pay settlements which have been arbitrarily imposed upon them . |
| 11 | Occasionally , perhaps , gerontophiliac tendencies account for the disruption of an engagement or marriage through attraction of one partner to the parent of the other ; but marriages are broken far more often through infatuation with a third party of a partner 's own age group , while attraction to an in-law may equally denote a need for a surrogate mother or father irrespective of true gerontophilia . |
| 12 | The Gower Report and the FSA were also stimulated by instances of the failure of small investment firms , in which investors lost funds ( often through fraud or incompetence ) , such as Norton Warburg in 1981 . |
| 13 | In the shape of a little old man , bent and stooping , with an old bag on his shoulder , he appeared and disappeared at whim , often through walls and machinery , and terrifying anyone who saw him . |
| 14 | Clearly , then , women 's access to home ownership is often through association with a male breadwinner , a fact which further reinforces women 's economic dependence on a male partner . |
| 15 | In discussing identity formation at adolescence , Erikson posits that it is partly ‘ dependent on the process by which a society ( often through subsocieties ) identifies the young individual , recognising him as someone who had to become the way he is and who , being the way he is , is taken for granted . |
| 16 | Power stations , oil refineries , dairy farms , newspapers , hospitals , simply have to go on at the weekend , and often through nights as well as days . |
| 17 | It becomes an inevitable part of normal living that we form significant relationships with particular individuals for a period of time and then , often through force of circumstance , move away from those same relationships . |
| 18 | Thus over time , and at a variety of scales , cultures were mixed and accommodations were reached ( often between groups with unequal power ) , producing hybrid forms . |
| 19 | Very often during training , a student will be rather short of height but will just have sufficient for a normal approach . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's a power-cut ; they happen quite often during storms , ’ Ashley told him , shouting back down the darkened hallway . |
| 21 | Its anthems are more often about women than played by them . |
| 22 | However , this custom has virtually died out , except where local ramblers use the parish boundaries as the route for a pleasant walk , often about Easter . |
| 23 | Anne thought often about Sarah and her sophisticated partner on the Saturday night of the dinner dance . |
| 24 | The case is classified as doubtful because the opinion of each party appeared to carry equal weight , and the advice was often about questions irrelevant to the legal issues of grounds , maintenance , and the house . |
| 25 | On the contrary , the two young persons communicate in a jokily affectionate private language , often about people in a not undistinguished but certainly restricted circle of acquaintances and Shakespear connections , who lived according to social codes now utterly unremembered . |
| 26 | She talked at length , often about people who had died before Anne was born , but she pretended to remember them . |
| 27 | Personal goals and attitudes , often about power , are at the root of most conflict , but they do not necessarily cause conflict . |
| 28 | Inter-generational rows are often about power : parents trying to retain their control even when their children are grown . |
| 29 | The talk in the dressing-room was often about Mary Deare . |
| 30 | At the lower end of the market are " home " computers which are designed often for computer enthusiasts for programming or for children or adults to play computer games . |