Example sentences of "often [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drake often sits on water with tail cocked up . |
| 2 | With new acts , a brief biography is also often included by way of introduction . |
| 3 | Working-class heroes have often flirted with delinquency in adolescence : it is hard to find the right channel for extraordinary energy . |
| 4 | Buoyant , tern-like flight not often seen on surface of water . |
| 5 | For a librarian to ‘ screen ’ stock in this way is usually seen as standard library procedure in a library for children , but is less often accepted in relation to adult reading . |
| 6 | However , this fact is not always recognized since the Conservative Party was often subsumed in office in Coalition and National government arrangements . |
| 7 | By 1949 he had become a central party figure , often acting as spokesman on minority issues . |
| 8 | Firstly , the UK is often accused of intransigence in relation to the growth of EC expenditure . |
| 9 | Typical oxidants , other than air , include sodium hypochlorite , potassium permanganate , chlorine , chlorine-dioxide and ozone , which are often used in conjunction with absorption techniques , being added in small quantities , to the scrubbing liquid which is usually water . |
| 10 | Ultra-violet fluorescence microscopy is often used in examination of hydrocarbon residues in sediments ( e.g. Burruss , Cercone & harris , 1985 ) . |
| 11 | Approaches that have tended to over-emphasise the cost aspects of RMI and to make it appear as a finance-driven system tend to alienate the service provider groups and often meet with resistance at clinician level . |
| 12 | Even then she had found it difficult to get up in the morning , had begged and pleaded to be allowed to lie in a little longer , had gone back to sleep more often than not , the forerunner , Cecilia supposed , of her present practice of often lying in bed till noon . |
| 13 | Squigs are often herded into battle by Night Goblins armed with prodders . |
| 14 | However in many cases it is doubtful whether these are anything other than the traditional wage system in a new disguise — for ‘ merit ’ , ‘ loyalty ’ and ‘ cooperation ’ , which are often tied to length of service have been used as major criteria for wage increases granted in this fashion … managements have not proceeded hastily towards full-blown wage rationalization because of their own concern with preserving worker identification with the enterprise … |
| 15 | Although he had an unrivalled ability to motivate players , Docherty 's approach often bordered on theatre of cruelty . |
| 16 | Designs on the screen are most often knitted from bottom to top , so looking for colours as they appear in the design from bottom to top and left to right is an accurate way of assessing where colours are brought into the work and their order . |
| 17 | It is often accompanied by die-back of shoot tips early in the year . |
| 18 | In the immediate post-war period down to the mid-1950s there were endless external difficulties as the economy tried to recover from the strains of the war ; balance-of-payments crises of a severe kind in 1949 , 1951 , and 1955 , often accompanied by pressure on sterling , were endemic . |
| 19 | For instance , a major operation , starting a new school and going on active military service are threatening events often known in advance of occurrence , but which only a small minority of people will find sufficiently distressing to make psychiatric disorder a likely consequence . |
| 20 | It is also an elected body , elected in local elections and often run in council on party political lines , as is this council . |
| 21 | I agree that criminal vandalism is appalling : it can often lead to loss of life or the risk of serious injury . |
| 22 | Patients often comment upon lack of sleep whilst in hospital . |
| 23 | They will often change from district to district , and much would be lost from our language if they fell into disuse . |
| 24 | Second , even where there are annual elections , the actual wards in which ordinary vacancies occur often differ from year to year . |
| 25 | People often turn from fiction to biography as they get older , I expect because the real world comes to seem more mysterious and more valuable to them the closer they come to leaving it . |
| 26 | In Scale 1 he protests that he speaks of more than he has directly experienced : In the second book which complements the material in the first , there is an often remarked upon change of tone : the reservation and distancing of Scale 1 is absent from the imagistic structures which embody his thought and insight in Scale 2 . |
| 27 | Roman workmanship is often criticised in comparison with Greek for its clumsy detail , as in capitals and mouldings , and for its less subtle proportions of columns and entablature . |
| 28 | Most distinctive feature is graceful dipping flight , often stooping to surface of water to pick up insects , but very rarely diving in . |
| 29 | For this purpose , it is often expressed per head of population , which also brings problems of estimation . |
| 30 | But the enthusiasm so often expressed in favour of change produced little movement within the industry . |