Example sentences of "often be [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is important to avoid cheap products which often are formulated for freshwater aquarium use and contain lots of carbohydrate , fats , fibre and little else . |
| 2 | ‘ Starter schemes ’ or ‘ shell-housing ’ , ready plastered-out but not finished , have often been built on this basis , for example in Ribble Valley District , some Devon districts and in Suffolk Coastal District . |
| 3 | Unless they are made available for further research , data which have often been collected at great expense and with significant effort may later exist only in a small number of reports which analyse only a fraction of the research potential of the data . |
| 4 | Sensationalist stories in the tabloids about his life and activities have often been followed by curt retractions . |
| 5 | Traditionally , housing sites have often been named after local water such as Bishop 's Wharf overlooking the River Ouse in York . |
| 6 | ‘ Groups such as the GC have often been assisted by sympathetic groups , and it is not necessarily the case that the whole construction of the bomb was Libyan and that Libya was responsible for designing it . ’ |
| 7 | Despite the fact that dichotic listening techniques have often been adopted without proper validation , findings which show a difference in the direction and/or magnitude of ear asymmetry between groups of right and left ( or non-right ) handed subjects have been taken as indicating a difference in direction or magnitude of cerebral lateralisation . |
| 8 | Hyperpepsinogenaemia A has often been seen in duodenal ulcer , Zollinger-Ellison syndrome , hypertrophic gastraophy , and chronic renal failure . |
| 9 | In a broader perspective , something of an avant-garde role has often been assigned to whole styles or genres in twentieth-century popular music , or to aspects of them . |
| 10 | But Charles was not merely a defender , and while his ancestors had often been weakened through internal dissent among the Frankish nobility , he had total command and a clear field of action based upon considerable personal and state resources . |
| 11 | Similar criticisms of these explanations have often been formulated by sociologically-based theories which attempt to reflect the connections between the legal system and the political , cultural and economic systems . |
| 12 | It is evident — and I have emphasized the fact — that new political ideas have very often been formulated in direct response to the situations confronted by movements , parties and political leaders ; and the political thought of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has been exceptionally fertile in this respect . |
| 13 | Their natural opponents , who had often been lashed for undue subservience to clerical domination , joyfully pointed this out : ‘ It is one of the ironies on English political life ’ declared The Tablet , the leading Roman Catholic weekly , ‘ that people who , when they are thinking of lies , are never tired of denouncing the influence of the clergy in politics , at the same time are quite ready to give up their political consciences to the keeping of their ministers . ’ |
| 14 | Thirdly , in deciding which label to attach the courts have often been acting upon questionable assumptions as to the conclusions which follow from the attachment of one label or the other . |
| 15 | The only way this deterioration can be halted and reversed , is , as has so often been propounded in these pages , through childhood instruction . |
| 16 | Iran expressed strong reservations about some aspects of the draft , and a number of other governments , among them China , Pakistan and several Arab countries , also hinted that they might not sign the treaty , the product of 24 years of protracted negotiations which had often been deadlocked by Cold War rivalry . |
| 17 | It is no coincidence that the divine visions have often been experienced in these circumstances . |
| 18 | For let's face it : the best artists and craftsmen in history have been stay-at-homes , and the greatest happiness has often been found in industrious obscurity . |
| 19 | It has often been divided into temporary hardness due to the presence of bicarbonates , which are decomposed by boiling , and permanent hardness due to the presence of sulphates , chlorides , and nitrates , which are unaffected by boiling . |
| 20 | Firm judgments of the cases he has investigated have often been accompanied by hard-hitting comments about the problems his office has encountered . |
| 21 | In numerous policy areas ( such as smoke control , comprehensive education , selling council houses ) central government has often been frustrated by local authorities . |
| 22 | The White Welsh today has black points , very like the White Park ; this is not surprising as there has been a close connection between the two and White Park bulls have quite often been used on Welsh cows . |
| 23 | A curriculum is such a complex device , and requires the combined contributions , sustained over time , of so many different groups and individuals , that radical curriculum change has often been associated with political upheaval or even war . |
| 24 | It has often been objected to this account that it does not fit all of consciousness , that some of consciousness refutes it . |
| 25 | Political parties have often been attacked as bad things in the body politic . |
| 26 | It was also of course a source of female power by virtue of the fact that anything that threatens also wields power — a theme which has often been picked by other contributors to this volume . |
| 27 | Lydia , who had quite often been subjected to this experience , twigged at once . |
| 28 | Any gaps in information can often be filled by informed guesswork . |
| 29 | That such an organism existed , or exists , has been the subject of much speculation by palaeobiologists and geochemists interested in the origin of the so-called banded iron formations ( BIFs ) ; these are sedimentary ores typically composed of alternating layers of silica- and iron-rich minerals that can often be traced as discrete units over hundreds of kilometres . |
| 30 | Effluent in rural areas is usually discharged visibly into watercourses and can often be traced without much difficulty to its source . |