Example sentences of "be often [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Socks are often at the centre of the mini-wars at which couples engage . |
| 2 | That last archipelago probably suffers the most horrific conservation problems in the world , and pigs are often at the centre of them . |
| 3 | Apart from the recession , drugs are often at the root of many offences . |
| 4 | One fact that contradicts it immediately is that women are often in the vanguard of linguistic change towards the standard variety . |
| 5 | This is why many Georgian and Victorian houses are out on their own , whereas William and Mary and Queen Anne houses are often in the middle of villages , where the original manor had always stood . |
| 6 | And even street vendors are often in the hold of middle-persons who are also their creditors . |
| 7 | A major problem in the use of this distribution is that reported data are often in the form of totals or aggregates , summed over potentially important explanatory variables . |
| 8 | Causes of uncertainty are often in the area of giving and receiving instructions and in making sure that information is correctly understood . |
| 9 | Parents were often in the foreground of the picture but their relationship with teachers rather than with governors themselves was not often highlighted . |
| 10 | Some parliamentary constituencies had only a handful of electors : known as " rotten boroughs , " they were often in the pocket of an aristocrat or local landowner . |
| 11 | As these debates frequently arise in the delivery suite , anaesthesia is often at the centre of this maelstrom . |
| 12 | Shared values among the team and a common approach is often at the core of success . |
| 13 | The problem is often with the quality of the other firm 's work . |
| 14 | Also , the methods practised in today 's abattoirs , where a conveyor-belt approach to the slaughter of animals is carried out at maximum speed , is often to the detriment of hygiene procedures . |
| 15 | The breach of duty consists not of allowing the conflict of interest to arise because that is often outside the control of the director , but of the director 's preferring his own personal interests to those of persons for whom he acts as fiduciary , or of taking advantage of such a position . |
| 16 | The major difference between new and older housing areas is often in the relationship to traffic arteries and in the organisation of traffic . |
| 17 | The skipper was often at the centre of the action , saving Spurs early in the second-half when Brian Borrows hesitated just six yards out with the goal at his mercy . |
| 18 | First , in the context of share-pushing there was the reality that the share-pusher was often beyond the reach of English law . |
| 19 | In fact Andrew showed considerably more affection for our mutual and pretty little friend Mary McLeod , and he was often in the company of a blond and beautiful girl , the glamorous Gloria , who looked better in a bikini on the Windrush verandah , it must be confessed , than many another . |