Example sentences of "often [verb] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well can make anything worse and will often make a lot of things carry on longer than they otherwise would normally . |
| 2 | Not only does this help people to understand the problems of deafness , but it often produces a lot of fun . |
| 3 | My oil paintings often involve a lot of fine lines and small details , but when using fine brushes I find it very difficult to get the oil paint to flow from the brush very smoothly . |
| 4 | My oil paintings often involve a lot of fine lines and small details , but when using fine brushes I find it very difficult to get the oil paint to flow from the brush very smoothly . |
| 5 | In writing a program , one often has a lot of freedom in the use of bound variables : not only in where they are declared , but also in whether to declare a new variable or re-use an old one . |
| 6 | ‘ Men often put a lot of energy into the courtship period ’ , warns Jane Hawksley , ‘ never use that as a gauge for the future . |
| 7 | According to representatives at the conference from China , developing countries can often do a lot themselves to advance in space technology . |
| 8 | For such patients we have adopted a policy of exercise testing on the one hand to convince them that they can often do a lot more than they feel like doing , and on the other hand to pick up the occasional patient who has severe residual ischaemia but is not declaring it . |
| 9 | But the Recycling Rose does not always smell sweet , because recycling waste can often cost a lot of money ; and buying recycled products can often cost more than ‘ raw ’ products . |
| 10 | This can be annoying sometimes because jobs that would only take a little while can often take a lot longer . |
| 11 | During this war , the skies over Britain often saw a lot of aerial activity , and many planes fell to the ground damaged or in flames . |
| 12 | Admittedly , Elaine 's cooking often left a lot to be desired , but she was at least conscientious . |
| 13 | Indeed the quality ‘ capture ’ often means a lot of work with perhaps only one detection — if that — at the end of the day . |
| 14 | Companies who want to open a new store or shop often do a lot of research into socioeconomics . |
| 15 | But if some nosey neighbour says she often spends a lot of time with me , those policemen are going to pile into her like teeth tearing into a peach . |
| 16 | ‘ He did not want any friends , ’ John Openshaw went on , ‘ and he often drank a lot . |
| 17 | I think these projects have , within their localities , often faced a lot of criticism , because they have perhaps been trying to move too far or too fast . |
| 18 | Indeed they often have a lot of misconceptions about the profession … amounting to an overall impression that actuaries are dull , uncreative , myopic number-crunchers buried in mortality tables in the back-rooms of insurance companies . |