Example sentences of "often [verb] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is left over often goes hack to the Third World . |
| 2 | Some hobbies and interests use equipment or materials that are fascinating or colourful in their own right and these can often lend character to a room if they 're left out on display . |
| 3 | THE acoustics at the Anglican Cathedral have often given rise to speculation about its suitability for Philharmonic concerts . |
| 4 | Travel agents and tour operators often make back to back reservations which means that certain accommodation is booked over a period of time and as one group of guests depart another group takes their place . |
| 5 | The statutory responsibilities to safeguard the welfare of the community and children in particular often involves recourse to the courts . |
| 6 | After the last show , or earlier if they were n't working , Arthur would often fall prey to the bite of melancholy , with such sharp dread of all endings that he would greatly fear going to sleep , as if nothing would be left to him unless he kept watch on it . |
| 7 | But that is explained , partly , by the fact that Mike did the negotiations himself and they were often done face to face with Jefferson . |
| 8 | She seems to have been too ignorant of , or to have too little regard to , those rules of the drama , and that happy management of plot and catastrophe , which often ensure success to poetry and sentiments much inferior to her own |
| 9 | This is a difficult skill to develop , as evidenced by the rules of ‘ social politeness ’ which often run counter to what the counsellor wants to do . |
| 10 | The noxious stimulation used in animal studies ( chemical and thermal ) is also suggested to be inadequate and given as reason why these studies often lend support to pre-emptive analgesia . |
| 11 | The regular clergy remained a major source of friction , however , and the claims of Benedictine and Cistercian monasteries and nunneries could often run counter to the interests of secular nobles . |
| 12 | Loans and gifts of money provided by older relatives can often run counter to the expected patterns of support . |
| 13 | They have become a prime target for teenage joyriders who often set fire to stolen cars when they have finished with them . |
| 14 | I have often played host to married friends who bemoan their lack of privacy , or express their desire to be able to put themselves first , once in a while , instead of their partner , parent(s) , children or grandchildren . |
| 15 | A careful user and comparer of sources , he often draws attention to discrepancies between them , and sometimes criticises their reliability , noting , for example , that Cædwalla of Wessex 's confirmation of a Glastonbury grant was signed with a cross although he was a pagan at the time . |
| 16 | This approach is convenient , and we shall often have recourse to it ; however , it has disadvantages ( even supposing that a fully adequate account can be given of such notions as ‘ the class of dogs ’ ) . |
| 17 | Such commentators can often gain access to many of the places which sociology itself is unable to describe by any except the most remote methods . |
| 18 | In short , the probability is that women will more often gain access to heroin through a male , frequently via a ‘ romantic relationship ’ , than any other social route . |
| 19 | The numerous internal partitions that result have often proved anathema to modern-day breweries . |
| 20 | These young people stumbled ‘ from one nightmare into another ’ , often falling prey to drugs , prostitution , disease and despair , she told a conference in London organised by Centrepoint , a charity that runs hostels for the homeless . |
| 21 | Plums are notoriously difficult to grow … often falling victim to the weather and pests . |
| 22 | Pickups fitted with metal covers quite often benefit by their removal , as the air gap between the cover and the coils often gives rise to microphonic feedback . |
| 23 | It is interesting to observe that the use of our anti IL-6DBP antibody preparation , while not leading to reduction or elimination of the IL-6 induced band , often gives rise to the appearance of a slow migrating band on the top of the gel ( shown by an open arrow ) . |
| 24 | And somehow , having made contact with the deepest part of herself , the woman often gives permission to that womb to flower . |
| 25 | In many areas local services were provided by numerous different authorities , which often gave rise to acute co-ordination problems . |
| 26 | A. V. Dicey , the prominent nineteenth-century jurist and by no means an extreme anti-feminist , considered that while distinctions of rights founded on sex often gave rise to injustice ‘ they have this in their favour — they rest upon a difference not created by social conventions or by human prejudice and selfishness , or by accidental circumstances … which split society into classes , but by the nature of things ’ . |
| 27 | The most often invoked argument to that effect relies on an obligation to support and maintain just institutions . |
| 28 | They can forget about privacy and often fall prey to gangs operating a regime of intimidation . |
| 29 | Allowed to remain in the cool waters of the pool , they take a considerable time to reappear and fulfil their role , and often fall prey to browsing water snails . |
| 30 | Poor children in Jamaica often fall prey to drugs dealers who offer them clothes and shoes in return for carrying drugs . |