Example sentences of "[noun] often [verb] to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Effective small talk often runs to a formula . |
| 2 | Psychologists often refer to a list of generally used defences : repression , denial , displacement , splitting , projection and reaction formation are the most commonly used . |
| 3 | The stress caused to the fish often leads to a multipathogen infection and death . |
| 4 | The possibilities opened up are exceptionally exciting and realisable provided certain strange notions of academic freedom ( in this case often amounting to a student fishing desperately around for an ‘ original ’ and totally useless subject like the history of his old school ) , can be avoided . |
| 5 | This art was continued by his son Thomas until 1826 , the scenes often relating to a description or incident in the book chosen for decoration . |
| 6 | In all parts of the country Wesleyan Methodism had become the chief alternative to the Established Church and in purely agricultural regions religious differences often amounted to a choice between either the Church of England or Wesleyan and Primitive Methodism . |
| 7 | The same thing often happens to a manufacturer when he believes he can buy the public 's good opinion of him . |
| 8 | There is also the tendency when comparing the past with the present to draw too sharp a distinction between ‘ then and now ’ , a tendency often linked to a view of the present as either vastly superior or inferior to the past . |