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

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1 The courts often sit for months over scientific questions — for example , whether whooping cough vaccine caused brain damage — and the GMC may imagine itself stuck with cases lasting months and costing millions .
2 A subfamily of the Ophiacanthidae with small imbricating transparent scales or skin covering the disk , the scales often armed with spinelets or granules which may obscure them ; the disk sack-like , sometimes indented interradially ; the radial shields not integrated with the disk but over laid by the scales or skin covering the disk with only their distal ends evident ; the jaws as broad as long ; one to several apical papillae flanked by three to many oral papillae each side ; tentacle pores not conspicuously large usually armed with at least one tentacle scale ; arm spines vary in length but dorsal ones usually longer than one arm segment , sometimes forming a fan on proximal arm segments .
3 The experience often leads to depression and serious illness ; indeed many people die shortly after retiring .
4 Henry took the route often taken by historians faced with a tricky historical problem .
5 Very commonly two or more men shared a single assessment , mostly members of the same family , though the occasional bracketing of different surnames suggests cousins or , rather , in-laws — the husbands of co-heiresses who were commonplace among landowners locally ; and maybe business partnerships of the kind often formed by miners to save expenses .
6 They claim the animals often suffer from deformities and illnesses , and bitches are shot when they 're no longer able to produce puppies .
7 The younger men amongst the Jews often roared with laughter when the older men , the original immigrants , talked of some experience or incident , for the young bucks were first generation British and educated .
8 In later stages of the disease the sprees often end in unconsciousness .
9 They first presented small milk containers ‘ of the type often provided with coffee in restaurants ’ , with intact tops , to 16 birds .
10 This view sounds consistent with the philosophy often cited by groups of service users — that standards should be consistent across the country and that people should have minimum entitlements to services wherever they live .
11 It is n't so good at irregular layouts of the sort often used in advertising — but it can be used for this purpose .
12 Languages from all over Europe as well as the Orient could be heard on all stations west , where the platforms often overflowed with migrants .
13 A reminder of this basic definition is necessary because partisans of the STV often refer to PR in loose and impressionistic terms .
14 Most analysts consider this high : it is a discount to the expected market price of just over 10% , not the 15% often expected by underwriters .
15 The rest often consists of sentences to help convey the meaning of those key points and to make the language flow .
16 Commitment to the development often varies in relation to the extent of internal or external steering of such a change .
17 As a result of the difficulties often encountered by users , a differentiation is being made between naive and experienced users of online catalogues .
18 Despite the instruction often given by teachers to emphasise personal involvement towards the end of an essay , you should avoid the sort of over-personalised ending found in this essay : After reading the first paragraph , I did n't expect such an exciting story , but gradually I got more and more involved in the narrative and finally overwhelmed by this splendid spectacle , which I could vividly visualise .
19 The day often began with people dropping in for breakfast , as they had done at Hamilton Terrace .
20 Failure to deal with these matters on the grant of the lease often leads to complaints from adjoining tenants and sometimes to an action against the landlord for derogation from his grant .
21 During 1989 student demands became more radical , and demonstrations against the government often resulted in violence .
22 Five of them feature as their main character Inspector Alan Grant , a gentleman police officer in the style often favoured by women writers , ‘ not coarse like a bobby ’ and with independent means ‘ to smooth and embroider life ’ .
23 This question is a rose with not a few thorns ; women do not like the assumption often made by men ( especially poets ) that the beautiful face describes an equally beautiful soul .
24 It takes a lot of skill to be able to learn in this way , although it is the way often taught at school — the old talk-and-chalk method of ‘ You listen while the teacher talks ’ .
25 The problem often arises in response to marital disharmony ( Douglas 1981 ) .
26 Gapeworm infection primarily affects young birds , but turkeys of all ages are susceptible , the adults often acting as carriers .
27 Their regime will embrace education and training but also provide the affection often lacking in offenders ' homes .
28 Modrow entitled his proposals " For Germany , united fatherland " , using a slogan often chanted by East German demonstrators .
29 The management will also be asked to give certain non-competition undertakings , of a type often found in service agreements , but which are more likely to be enforceable if incorporated in an investment agreement .
30 The answer is that , despite his biographer 's sterling efforts to dig up neat psychoanalytic excuses for even his most venal sins , a Dickens often given to kindness , empathy and geniality but more predominantly disposed to be cruel , self-centred , self-pitying and sententious does not come over as an especially lovable specimen .
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