Example sentences of "[noun] are often [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Chords of two , three , and four notes are often written for violin , viola , and cello , but great care has to be exercised in their use to avoid technical difficulties .
2 4 Different strategies are often seen at work in children of different chronological ages but with the same reading age .
3 In practice , these strategies are often pursued in tandem .
4 The Attorney General for England states that cases are often brought to trial which , from being imperfectly got up , break down , and thus cause the acquittal of guilty parties .
5 Calves are small at birth and Luing bulls are often used on lowland dairy herds for easy calving .
6 The welfare gains from decentralization are often considered by reference to those deadweight losses that result from centralization ( Oates 1972 ) .
7 In larvae of the Hymenoptera Apocrita and the higher Diptera the antennae are often reduced to minute tubercles or are atrophied .
8 Not just birds but small animals like foxes are often left for life training by their parents .
9 Finely , fossil animals are often found in association with the remains of their principal food , but rhynchosaurs are rarely found in association with mollusc shells .
10 Yellow sits on the fence between the powerful punches of red and true-blue ; curiously , green ties are often associated with failure .
11 These mustards are often sweetened with sugar .
12 Having reached a certain level of proficiency , I decided to experiment with mathematical curves for my bowl designs , combining my interest in mathematics and the belief that the best solutions are often associated with simplicity .
13 Stolen cars are often offered for sale and if you buy one — even unwittingly — the original owner or their insurance company will usually have first claim on the vehicle .
14 Old dialect words are often crystallized in field names : one field here is called the Scuts .
15 Squigs are often herded into battle by Night Goblins armed with prodders .
16 Sectors are often split into manufacturing , service and natural resource based industries .
17 These disorders are phenotypically distinct , depending on the parent of origin of the deleted chromosome , but both syndromes are often associated with hypopigmentation of the skin , hair and eyes ( see ref. 8 for review ) , and deletion of the P gene may be responsible for this hypopigmentation .
18 The choral dances from the Norwich scene are often performed in concert and are widely admired .
19 Archaeological sites are often discovered by accident .
20 They say parents are often left without support to cope with the death , and doctors , nurses and midwives need to understand how to help them .
21 For example , extraneous voiceless stops are often hypothesized at utterance onset .
22 Similarly , the effects of alcohol abuse are often mistaken for depression , again because the physical and mental symptoms are similar .
23 The soils are often developed on parent materials of moderately fine and fine texture .
24 Memos of this type are often displayed on notice boards for general information .
25 These two themes of rapid economic growth and workplace harmony are often connected as cause and effect to produce a neat and tidy contrast .
26 Stepping motors are often used as output devices for microprocessor-based control systems , e.g. a graphplotter pen may be driven by x- and y-axis stepping motors which are controlled by a microprocessor .
27 Publishers ' catalogues are often used by university and special librarians .
28 These messages are often to do with guilt : ‘ I do n't deserve things to go well for me . ’
29 Yoga classes are often held in leisure centres , schools and even on occasions in church halls .
30 Professional investigators are often paid by result .
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