Example sentences of "often [vb -s] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As most houses consist of large drawing rooms and smaller bedrooms and studies , the chief of the office often sits alone in the best room , while the clerks are put into the smaller rooms . |
| 2 | I have long , naturally curly hair which always seems to be dry and often goes frizzy . |
| 3 | Being at the bottom , they feel their contribution often goes unrecognized , at least by the authorities . |
| 4 | The number of cases is not recorded ; the number of deaths is officially put at 855 , and may have been much higher , since diarrhoea is so common there that it often goes unreported . |
| 5 | But the heavier load that the manager bears in these bureaux to maintain a larger team and to open longer hours to the public , as well as doing in-depth work , often goes unrecognised . |
| 6 | It may be that he or she has been working quietly away in the background or it could be a single , dramatic act of true heroism in harrowing circumstances that we hear about but often goes unrewarded . |
| 7 | This is very natural and , as the plaque is white , it often goes unnoticed . |
| 8 | Their impact upon the quality of environment of older urban areas often goes unnoticed , yet as in this scheme in Edinburgh 's Lauriston Place , their access to government funding can lead to major townscape enhancement . |
| 9 | The damage to the integrity of the US banking system caused by the feckless management of the savings and loans system — which before US financial deregulation did much the same job as our own building societies — has been so extensive that its impact often goes unstated . |
| 10 | The plight of abused ( physically , emotionally and sexually ) children is a tragic and sensitive story which apparently often goes undetected because the mother , fearing reprisals or removal of the children , does not report abuse by her husband/partner or visiting relative ( who often is the perpetrator ) ; in many cases having suffered violence herself from him ( Jones , 1988 ) . |
| 11 | Wizadora is a young wizard who has n't yet mastered her magic spells — and as a result her magic often goes wrong ! |
| 12 | The work of Lothian Regional Council 's Water and Drainage Department often goes unseen . |
| 13 | Considering the time we invest in choosing our dream home and refurbishing it , security often receives scant attention — and by the time we do get round to dealing with it , it may be too late . |
| 14 | Because the menstrual disturbance often precedes severe weight loss and may persist after weight is regained , other factors must also be involved . |
| 15 | The question ‘ What is your job ? ’ often produces considerable prestige bias ( so that a ‘ plumber ’ becomes a ‘ heating and sanitary engineer ’ ) or vagueness , e.g. ‘ businessman ’ . |
| 16 | Positive control of transcription often involves stimulatory protein-protein interactions between regulatory factors and RNA polymerase . |
| 17 | By their very nature they must be worked where they occur and extraction often involves environmental nuisance and danger . |
| 18 | Eurocurrency business is in very substantial sums and also often involves governmental or governmental agency transactions . |
| 19 | This often involves in-service training for workers so that they can acquire the skills necessary to collect and use information well . |
| 20 | The channel used to transmit the message is usually less direct and often involves sophisticated modern technology , but the system still depends on recognised codes , custom and expectations . |
| 21 | The attraction of technology transfer to SMEs is that it often involves incremental improvements to products and processes which offer a rapid return and reduced risk . |
| 22 | However , for our present purposes this is unnecessary ; and in any event it often involves ill-conditioned equations and so lacks accuracy . |
| 23 | There is evidence ( Bergen , 1982 ) that positive bias is often associated with West German industry , while UK engineering more often displays negative bias . |
| 24 | Disclosing things about yourself often encourages other people to open up too . |
| 25 | Alcohol often tastes vile to people who are n't used to it . |
| 26 | Its feathers are ruffled , as those of a genuinely sick bird would be , and this ruffling often exposes bright patches of plumage that add to the conspicuousness of the display . |
| 27 | Many of these organizations have regular newsletters , for example the Interfaith Center has The Corporate Examiner and the flood of environmentalist and consumer-advice literature that began in the 1980s often contains material critical of the TNCs . |
| 28 | The animals ' food often contains toxic test substances or they may be forced to swallow huge capsules or have toxic creams rubbed into their raw skin . |
| 29 | I 'm getting so expert with my chopsticks now that I can almost eat my soup with them — actually , that 's not so silly as it sounds , as the soup often contains large lumps of meat and veg . |
| 30 | Technical sales literature often contains important data such as circuit diagrams and explanations on how improvements have been effected . |