Example sentences of "often [verb] [prep] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 More severely handicapped people often suffer from physical as well as mental disabilities .
2 The manifestation of the Kingdom often starts with small and seemingly insignificant beginnings .
3 It is worth remembering that below AH3 Plus grade these are small family hotels converted from the old burghers houses with no more than 15 to 20 rooms which are often reached by long and unusually steep staircases so characteristic of the narrow canal houses .
4 The exterior surface of most ammonoids is covered with ribbing — dense on some species , sparse on others — the ribs often split into two or more smaller ribs as they pass over the back of the whorls .
5 Its branches fork from an implanted bud just above ground level and normally make 2–4ft ( 0.6–1.2m ) high , although — and this has to be said — too often encouraged by incorrect and only partial pruning that permits new growth to break not from near ground level but from 1ft ( 0.3m ) , 2ft ( 0.6m ) , or even higher , they are frequently to be seen consisting of younger bloom bearing growth on top of old barky stems , the whole reaching 5ft ( 1.5m ) , even 6ft ( 1.8m ) , or more in height .
6 Taverner 's dense polyphony often flows in florid and rhythmically subtle lines in the tradition of the masters of the Eton Choirbook and his imitational practice is , if anything , nearer to Ockeghem 's than to Gombert 's or Clemens non Papa 's .
7 An arbitral tribunal is often composed of three or sometimes of five individuals , but all those individuals take a full part in the proceedings .
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