Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] often [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Come retirement age , an old person 's fancy often seems to turn to Devon . |
| 2 | The child 's play often reflects experience in school and at home . |
| 3 | Admittedly , Elaine 's cooking often left a lot to be desired , but she was at least conscientious . |
| 4 | Indeed , we have found that even users of some two year 's experience often do n't know about the basic ‘ power features ’ such as section numbering , tables of contents and , most worrying of all , how to back-up Ventura publications . |
| 5 | And , even if it were just an American issue , how can one claim to represent American art properly in the period when women 's work often led the way without including some of the artists I 've mentioned . |
| 6 | However , the farmer 's wife often had to deal on her own with callers and only 15% felt able to cope . |
| 7 | Nigel 's wife often appeared to haunt him after that . |
| 8 | In such cases , telling the baby 's father often produces a quick denial , of paternity or support . |
| 9 | Critics of a more open approach to young children 's learning often cite the Plowden Report ( 1966 ) as the source and inspiration of all that has been wrong with our primary schools . |
| 10 | ON THE ‘ Freedom ’ and ‘ Ragged Glory ’ albums , Neil 's voice often sounded desperate and enfeebled — a symbol of ranging helplessness . |
| 11 | When I lived in Dublin at the end of the Second World War , one of my friends was an obsessive film buff whose dramatic recall , frame by frame , of scenes such as the Odessa Steps sequence from Battleship Potemkin or the final chase in Fritz Lang 's M often hypnotized even the drunks in the bars we frequented . |
| 12 | Although he had an unrivalled ability to motivate players , Docherty 's approach often bordered on theatre of cruelty . |
| 13 | Men 's fashion often gets overlooked in the race to predict the latest and most fashionable trends in womens ' clothes . |
| 14 | Thus today 's customer often finds that he is hiring or buying the goods , not from the dealer , but from a remote and powerful finance company . |
| 15 | Unlike the government in Britain , the President 's party often does not have a majority in Congress . |
| 16 | Surely this contemporary trend towards a figural cinema of spectacle in today 's avant-garde often results in a repetition for the highly educated middle classes of patriarchal and capitalist economies of desire . |
| 17 | The tradition of the words of the Lord was largely oral , and even after the canonical gospels were freely circulating , second-century citations of Jesus ' teaching often suggest oral rather than written transmission . |
| 18 | Airtours ' management often does its own reconnaissance of potential new destinations — a reflection of the board 's workaholic nature . |
| 19 | Editor , — Since the advent of the NHS reforms and the internal market , expedient treatment and patients ' convenience often seem more important than quality of care . |
| 20 | The animals ' food often contains toxic test substances or they may be forced to swallow huge capsules or have toxic creams rubbed into their raw skin . |
| 21 | There is some advantage in treating the whole embedded overflow area as a single large blocked record , and manufacturers ' software often does transfer the whole track into main storage when an addition is to be made ; this allows for the addition itself , creation of link fields , changes of index , etc . |
| 22 | Manufacturers ' software often provides information about overflow areas that can assist in this ; the use of this information is discussed in a later section . |
| 23 | After that , the parents ' involvement often continues and may escalate . |