Example sentences of "and often [prep] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may , as we mentioned in connection with shopfloor culture , occur in spite of work conditions , and often as a form of resistance or opposition to the dominant culture of the workplace . |
| 2 | The word " aesthetic " itself acquired its modern academic denotation in eighteenth-century German philosophy — in the writings of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten and his disciple Immanuel Kant ; but the most significant of German " aesthetic " enquiries have invariably moved beyond " aesthetic " in the narrow sense , and often into a question for the " whole man " . |
| 3 | Even if women do return to work after having children , the majority go to a new employer and often to a job at a lower status than the one they left . |
| 4 | He with his cheerfully avuncular man of the world bonhomie , always smartly dressed and often with a flower in his buttonhole , a connoisseur of fine wines and Havana cigars . |
| 5 | The Suffolk 's head is big with a broad forehead , and often with a star on it or a shim or blaze down the face ; the neck deep in the collar and tapering to a graceful setting of the head ; the shoulders long and muscular and thrown well back at the withers . |
| 6 | Parents , often isolated and often with a view of children based only upon their experience of their own offspring , began to be able to set their child and his/her behaviour within a much broader context . |
| 7 | Some journals routinely give the referee feedback , usually on the editorial decision and often including a copy of the other referee 's report . |
| 8 | At some stages in their lives children are quite convinced that they have magical powers and often after a tussle about bedtime or a rejected request to watch a TV programme will ‘ wish ’ that the irritating adult would vanish . |
| 9 | According to this modified position , it is freely admitted that new theories are conceived of in a variety of ways and often by a number of routes . |
| 10 | The information necessary to carry out the control function effectively is produced from a variety of sources and often in a variety of forms . |
| 11 | We hear endlessly of Rodrigo taking various fortified cities and castles — only to lose them later and often in a matter of months . |