Example sentences of "[noun] often [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clients often make false claims of cold-calling ; sometimes so they might avoid paying for the shares they bought . |
| 2 | Inevitably , melodies often contain more leaps than in conventional music , or there may be a good deal of semitonal movement or inversions of semitones to create such intervals as 7ths and minor 9ths . |
| 3 | Moreover , it is right to take into account that one mischief sought to be addressed by legislation was the fact that third parties often assisted share-pushing operations . |
| 4 | The route stretches some twelve to fifteen miles and parties often took two days and a night to make the journey , leaving the corpse in the " deadhouse " at Blades ( now ill ruins ) overnight . |
| 5 | The war of words between the two parties often reflected this sense of historical continuity , the roots of the divide frequently being traced back to the 1640s . |
| 6 | The anecdotal evidence is that parties often want informal , non-legalistic meetings where the expert can hear what the parties ' non-legal representatives have to say , without any lawyers being present . |
| 7 | Shock tactics often fall wide of their mark . |
| 8 | However , the general precedents often contain little or no guidance about when to use a particular form , or why a particular term is drafted in a particular way ( although many firms ' own in-house precedents are accompanied by a commentary explaining the terms and offering suggestions for modifications ) . |
| 9 | By this means the most appropriate course of action often becomes apparent . |
| 10 | But well heeled Frenchmen often wear political allegiances like fragrant button holes : it is part of their personal decoration rather than a constraint on their way of life . |
| 11 | Erm , Hector often quotes one particular instance which illustrates that very well er a as recently as your time , after you were er er shoeing |
| 12 | The past practice of explaining discrepancies between theory and the empirical data as the product of ‘ cultural differences ’ is inadequate now that comparative data often show more variations than similarities . |
| 13 | ‘ Although the data often contained grammatical sequences several words long ( e.g. ME ABOUT BEEF ) , which would have made highly reliable predictors , these sequences seldom corresponded to complete templates and hence could not be detected by the precomputed production conditions . |
| 14 | New survey data often record personal biographies and provide a continuous record of the economic activities of people over several years . |
| 15 | Forestry or fishing often provide small farmers with a second , supplementary occupation without which family incomes would be much lower . |
| 16 | In Elizabeth I 's reign ( and , indeed , at other times ) the standard of education and diligence among the clergy often left much to be desired . |
| 17 | But while this may be true for matters concerning individual patients , as family relationships often develop severe tensions and problems , it is rarely true of the relatives of groups of patients who , when involved in planning and running services , show collective good sense and experience in addressing practical problems . |
| 18 | No wonder that women in their private relationships often mistake one set of characteristics for another : violence for strength , careerism for inner purposefulness , emotional distance for emotional balance , and sexual confidence for inner strength . |
| 19 | In many organisations , power relationships often go unnoticed because instructions and orders are often couched in polite terms — ‘ Could you , please , do this or that for me ’ . |
| 20 | Similarly , rows in relationships often indicate marital development . ’ |
| 21 | There is an attempt often to stop illegal claiming , rather than prosecute . |
| 22 | The urban poor tried valiantly to give to their dead a dignity they had scarcely known in life ; but the attempt often proved unavailing . |
| 23 | In addition , Sabin observed that seronegative children who were previously immunised with OPV often develop secondary immune responses when challenged with IPV , and have low rates of virus excretion when rechallenged with vaccine virus . |
| 24 | Manufacturers often use distinctive emblems or images to make their products easily-identifiable . |
| 25 | By their very nature they must be worked where they occur and extraction often involves environmental nuisance and danger . |
| 26 | The result of this scholarly study often produced tall houses such as this , with a semi-basement to rise above the damp and a stairway up to the main floor to add importance . |
| 27 | Many people in the north-east often feel marginalised and that their views are not taken into account . |
| 28 | Since aggressive animals often have higher testosterone levels than normal this might aid a male in persisting in attacks on harem males and thereby in gaining a harem . |
| 29 | Staff say birds and small animals often have more chance of surviving if they 're left where they are . |
| 30 | Big computers often achieve huge profit levels ; ‘ clones ’ of IBM computers may deliver more computing power for a significantly lower price . |