Example sentences of "often [verb] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Its permanent collection of fine Victorian paintings often sits cheek by jowl with a varied selection of current art and craft practices some of which also provide opportunities for visitors to participate in .
2 Capitain deals exclusively in works on paper , often producing catalogues in collaboration with New York publisher Thea Westreich .
3 Woman-centred feminism often neglects theory in favour of documenting feminine experience .
4 THE acoustics at the Anglican Cathedral have often given rise to speculation about its suitability for Philharmonic concerts .
5 Indeed , sites which were generally successful often attracted organs of government to them , as was the case with the cities and major towns , but in these and other instances it is always difficult to distinguish the primary function once it has been overlaid or mixed with others .
6 When cases came to court , the police often dropped charges in return for binding-over orders , issued under an even more ancient statute , the Justices of the Peace Act 1361 .
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 Dr Anthony Storr , author of the recently-published Churchill 's Black Dog , in which he showed how senior politicans often turned stresses of up-bringing into strengths , said yesterday : ‘ I 'm interested because the gates must mean that she 's feeling increasingly insecure and threatened in a simple , straightforward way ; and that 's an interesting phenomenum in itself because she 's been so absolutely certain of herself .
9 When we consider temperament in horses , and especially in families , it is most reasonable to look at the stallions in a family to get a more valid picture of the family characteristics , as stallions often exhibit traits of temperament to greater extremes than geldings and mares .
10 The infant welfare movement , like the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children , whose inspectors also began to enter the working class home during the 1890s , too often interpreted lack of cleanliness as neglect .
11 Time spent is not recoverable , while improved performance will often enable recovery of money in the medium term ; thus time is the most scarce resource at the project manager 's disposal .
12 Since the gentry had tended to buy and sell land without reference to the administrative cohesion of the parcels they exchanged , two or more communes often existed side by side in a single centre of rural population .
13 General pictures of what happens during the middle years are inevitably flawed , but they suggest that a change often takes place in marriage at that time and that for many people satisfactions come from sources outside the couple 's relationship .
14 I often watched Michael at work in his shaping room .
15 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 .
16 Children often use dough in imitation of pastry ; rolling , cutting and making cakes , pies or pasties .
17 As a keeper of Cichlids , I often use rainwater in addition to tapwater .
18 But thanks to pioneering research here at the John Radcliffe hospital , often involving transfusions of blood to the unborn baby , these children have survived .
19 In the past , raising productivity often went hand in hand with increased production ; now the emphasis will be on encouraging practices which will reduce costs , save energy , improve living and working conditions , protect and improve the environment and raise the quality and value of products leaving the farm .
20 They can also very often rank sentences in order of normality .
21 It could not be long before the football emperor was in truly royal circles He met King George V , Queen Mary and the Prince of Wales , and often discussed points of play with the King during Cup finals .
22 As a result many Marxists have had to look outside Marxism to explain primitive societies , so they often imported theories of history from the anthropologists whom they used as sources .
23 The successful party will often receive money in payment of costs from the losing party .
24 It is difficult for her and others to grapple with the fact that , although they often oppose racism on behalf of Asian communities , they find themselves unable to control and dictate the forms that anti-racism takes .
25 Based on the novel by Hubert Selby Jr ( Subject of a celebrated prosecution in 1967 under the Obscene Publications Act ) , LAST EXIT is a tough , often harrowing film about life in a rough working class district of New York during the Korean War .
26 selective predators often take prey in proportion to its presence in the community , so that the dominant prey species is also the most abundant species in the community , but less common small mammal species may be unrepresented in the predator 's prey assemblage ;
27 Studies still often address homosexuality in conjunction with child molesting .
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