Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] often [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Provision for synthesis often leads to long notation , for two reasons . |
| 2 | In France intermittent discussion from 1879 onwards , in which the advocates of change often pointed to Britain and Germany as models , bore fruit at last in the sending in 1904 of a commercial attaché to London at the special request of the embassy there : by 1908 the French diplomatic service included six such appointments . |
| 3 | We can not assume that such areas were unsettled , however , since areas of woodland often belonged to other places which are better documented . |
| 4 | One definition of function often found in present-day texts is : " A function is a rule which associates with each element of some set A a single element of a second set B. |
| 5 | Surveys of technique often include more rewarding art criticism than either chronologically or geographically based books . |
| 6 | The garden of the house beside Century Street was enclosed by a tall , black wooden fence , parts of which in time of storm often collapsed . |
| 7 | She set up everywhere she went a series of dependency relationships , attaching herself either to the compassionate , the powerful , or the merely expedient , when her lack of judgement often led her to be rejected , robbed or ill-treated , but — again a psychotic trait — she seemed unable to learn by experience . |
| 8 | She had that feeling of insult often felt at a party when the person one is talking to focuses his gaze on people round about all the time , searching for someone more interesting , powerful or sexy to talk to . |
| 9 | Yet our Members of Parliament often seem to know nothing of us . |
| 10 | At its most basic level , formal structure refers to the physical shape of the organisation the distribution of jobs and lines of command often set out in an organisation chart , if the firm in question has one . |
| 11 | By this means the most appropriate course of action often becomes apparent . |
| 12 | The reversion of criticism , at least in academies , from practice to theory after the demise of Scrutiny in 1953 and the appearance of Empson 's last lifetime book in 1961 was perhaps something to be expected , as failures of nerve often follow phases of confidence and excess . |
| 13 | The focusing of consciousness often appears to be concerned with the attempted resolution of unfinished business . |
| 14 | Long-term social change , frequently defined as modernization but in studies of crime often measured by urbanization , is in this book defined by the expansion of the market economy . |
| 15 | As well as distortions to the official figures produced by police recording practice , there are a variety of reasons why victims of crime often do not report offences . |
| 16 | Every offering seems to contain at least four separate songs — so there 's rarely any danger of things descending into the kind of tedium often purveyed by dreadlocked squat-dwellers . |
| 17 | This kind of statement , issued by a large and highly successful international publishing company could help to mitigate the sense of isolation often felt by those teachers attempting to tackle these issues , often in less than supportive circumstances . |
| 18 | Media reports of torture often generate widespread public outrage . |
| 19 | The control of the state apparatus , the manipulation of elections , the granting of privileges , and the control of violence often rendered the political class relatively autonomous and independent of interests or at least able to discriminate among them |
| 20 | Those who practise these branches of study often mistake them for spheres of knowledge when they are more accurately seen as examples of dialectic or rhetoric — ideas which may be better aired in talk . |
| 21 | In particular the expectations of research often do not match the actual practice of their supervisors . |
| 22 | Highly-viscous lavas are always concerned in Peleean eruptions ; as we saw earlier , a dome or plug of lava often builds up within the crater concerned , blocking the throat of the volcano , so that the pressures building up beneath can only be relieved by vigorous explosions , which may be directed either upwards or sideways , blasting out as nuees ardentes . |
| 23 | These changes in social identity set the parameters of potential riots , but the actual incidence and seriousness of rioting often depended on the actions of individual officials and the presence of random catalysts which could prompt disturbances . |
| 24 | Their multiple levels of management often involve rigidities which arise from the need to define roles and jobs rigorously in order that functions do not overlap . |
| 25 | Foraging for food in the depths of winter often means travelling through deep snow , and this takes its toll of the goat population . |
| 26 | This lack of insight and concomitant lack of empathy often leads us to replace feelings with action — sometimes abusive action . |
| 27 | Finally , a lack of work often excludes claimants from occupational pension schemes , which , together with owner-occupation , constitute one of the two most important forms of capital accumulation for the majority of the population . |
| 28 | For these countries , the impacts of what has been dubbed the ‘ forced adjustment phase ’ ( Mentre , 1984 ) were reflected internally , with the main burden of adjustment often falling on wage-earners . |
| 29 | The satellite data have been processed to enhance subtle variations in vegetation density which in this sort of terrain often correlate with the availability of ground moisture . |
| 30 | It is very tempting to suppose that the lack of any such reliable signals , and the perilously low level of security often reached in human communities , must be connected with a high level of conceptual and , in particular , predictive thought , and also an associated capacity for deceit . |