Example sentences of "[noun pl] often [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clients often discovered disasters affecting share prices of stocks too late . |
| 2 | THE COMPLICATED VAT LIFE OF A LEASE Traders often lease premises , but there are many occasions during a lease 's life when VAT liabilities can arise |
| 3 | British national bibliography entries often omit prices . |
| 4 | Shops often advertise goods at ‘ Half price ’ or ‘ 50% off ’ and other cut-price offers . |
| 5 | Although you could re-use the tape for another recording , you may decide to keep it : it 's surprising how even the most unambitious personal video recordings often contain scenes , or just brief moments , which are worth preserving . |
| 6 | He says horror films and books often portray snakes as monsters ; now he wants people to get to know his reptiles so that they stop fearing them . |
| 7 | Even first-team players had odd jobs and reserves often worked shifts at the pit or elsewhere . |
| 8 | Readers often ask GHI where they can buy rubber seals for traditional screw-top preserving jars . |
| 9 | Yet , because policymakers often neglect demographics , those who watch them and exploit them can reap great rewards . |
| 10 | When this occurs the couriers often take benzodiazepines to stop themselves from getting too ‘ high ’ or agitated , but the outcome is nevertheless often fatal . |
| 11 | Documentaries often include interviews with people who have some connection with the topic . |
| 12 | Companies often use details of education to plot out salary curves and promotion prospects . |
| 13 | Dr Anthony Storr , author of the recently-published Churchill 's Black Dog , in which he showed how senior politicans often turned stresses of up-bringing into strengths , said yesterday : ‘ I 'm interested because the gates must mean that she 's feeling increasingly insecure and threatened in a simple , straightforward way ; and that 's an interesting phenomenum in itself because she 's been so absolutely certain of herself . |
| 14 | An individualist rational choice or Game Theory line can take states as units or take flesh-and-blood individuals as units ; witness the way in which microeconomics often treats firms as individual units needing no further analysis . |
| 15 | Desperate parents often ask adults flying to a safe country to take their children for them . |
| 16 | Parents often have difficulties getting their children to sleep . |
| 17 | Such statuettes often adorned vessels . |
| 18 | Thus today 's miners often work lodes that contain just I gram of tin oxide , known as black tin , for every kilogram of rock . |
| 19 | These emissaries often bore gifts as well as eloquent words : since at least the early thirteenth century royal pensions were granted to promising or influential cardinalsto eighteen at least of the seventy-two who there were between 1305 and 1334 , to six alone in 1309 when the royal mission secured papal backing for Gaveston 's recall . |
| 20 | The UK national culture seems to be anti-systems and engineers often regard standards as restrictions on their creativity rather than as an efficient means of communication . |
| 21 | This family is characterised by the disk covered with plates often carrying spinelets or granules which do not conceal them , except in Ophiopholis where the granules obscure the plates ; radial shields usually conspicuous ; one apical papilla flanked with rounded oral papillae often separated from it by a diastema and not forming a contiguous series with it , except in Histampica ; the second oral tentacle pore opening within the oral slit ; arm spines short , pointed and erect , not appressed to the side of the arm . |
| 22 | In Australia , pioneering QANTAS pilots often woke passengers in their hotel , cooked them breakfast , pushed the aircraft out of the hangar , loaded it with mail and freight and took off — all by the crack of dawn . |
| 23 | The plural form of y+s = ies often causes mistakes ( cf. fly — flies ; spy — spies etc . ) |
| 24 | The recognition of Romanesque or Gothic details in such buildings , however , should not automatically be associated with a former church or chapel , as small manor houses and other secular buildings often had windows and doorways in these styles . |
| 25 | Second , rational expectations often introduces restrictions which may be tested against the data . |
| 26 | Baldwin 's ( 1985 , p. 142 ) work on bringing up handicapped children indicates that grandparents often buy necessities such as food and clothing , and this can be vital to the finances of a household where having a handicapped child creates additional expense . |
| 27 | Her administrations were headed first by the " duumvirs " , Godolphin and Marlborough , and from 1710 by Robert Harley ( soon to be Earl of Oxford ) , none of whom were conventional party men ( although Harley , a former Whig , can essentially be regarded as a Tory by Anne 's reign ) , and her governments often contained men from both sides of the party divide . |
| 28 | In practice , governments often regulate externalities such as pollution or congestion by imposing standards that affect quantities directly rather than by using the tax system to affect production and consumption indirectly . |
| 29 | Distressed , roaming elephants often plunder crops and occasionally kill people . |
| 30 | Their responsibilities often included areas which had little or nothing to do with foreign policy . |