Example sentences of "[noun] often [verb] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the gentry had tended to buy and sell land without reference to the administrative cohesion of the parcels they exchanged , two or more communes often existed side by side in a single centre of rural population . |
| 2 | Ceauşescu knew that greed and gullibility often went hand in hand . |
| 3 | Its permanent collection of fine Victorian paintings often sits cheek by jowl with a varied selection of current art and craft practices some of which also provide opportunities for visitors to participate in . |
| 4 | Local networks often took advantage of kinship ties . |
| 5 | The child 's play often reflects experience in school and at home . |
| 6 | Travel agents and tour operators often make back to back reservations which means that certain accommodation is booked over a period of time and as one group of guests depart another group takes their place . |
| 7 | Although the diet literature often gives information about animal sources of protein , there is surprisingly little about plant sources . |
| 8 | But they continued to build the duomo and the many lovely churches and monasteries of the city ; , for in the eleventh and twelfth centuries , and especially in Italy , a deep religious sentiment and an active anticlericalism often lived side by side , sometimes within the same human breast . |
| 9 | General pictures of what happens during the middle years are inevitably flawed , but they suggest that a change often takes place in marriage at that time and that for many people satisfactions come from sources outside the couple 's relationship . |
| 10 | A. V. Dicey , the prominent nineteenth-century jurist and by no means an extreme anti-feminist , considered that while distinctions of rights founded on sex often gave rise to injustice ‘ they have this in their favour — they rest upon a difference not created by social conventions or by human prejudice and selfishness , or by accidental circumstances … which split society into classes , but by the nature of things ’ . |
| 11 | Woman-centred feminism often neglects theory in favour of documenting feminine experience . |
| 12 | Children often use dough in imitation of pastry ; rolling , cutting and making cakes , pies or pasties . |
| 13 | In Goodlad 's own words , ‘ In large inner city schools , many of whose pupils are immigrants , and where mixed-ability ‘ teaching is used , able pupils value the extra stimulus tutoring can offer ; less able pupils often need help in order to survive . ’ |
| 14 | Manufacturers ' software often provides information about overflow areas that can assist in this ; the use of this information is discussed in a later section . |
| 15 | ‘ Economic and political groups in dominance often make use of majority and minority religious groups and issues for their own ends , ’ participants agreed . |
| 16 | According to the sculptor , it symbolises the way in which victims of nasty remarks often seek comfort in chocolate . |
| 17 | selective predators often take prey in proportion to its presence in the community , so that the dominant prey species is also the most abundant species in the community , but less common small mammal species may be unrepresented in the predator 's prey assemblage ; |
| 18 | In the past , raising productivity often went hand in hand with increased production ; now the emphasis will be on encouraging practices which will reduce costs , save energy , improve living and working conditions , protect and improve the environment and raise the quality and value of products leaving the farm . |