Example sentences of "often [verb] [noun sg] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People requiring accommodation often make use of the reservation form which hotels include in their hotel brochure . |
| 2 | The dreams of people who had had traumatic experiences in the war , and who had developed neurotic symptoms , often contained material about the situation in which they were traumatized . |
| 3 | Shells from marine and freshwater molluscs often provide evidence of the food eaten by inhabitants . |
| 4 | Rich deme evidence comes from Eleusis , one of the proudest and most important of the deme sites , partly because of its sanctuary to Demeter and Kore where the cults of the great Eleusinian mystery religion were performed , partly because of a too often forgotten feature of the place : its defences . |
| 5 | After the last show , or earlier if they were n't working , Arthur would often fall prey to the bite of melancholy , with such sharp dread of all endings that he would greatly fear going to sleep , as if nothing would be left to him unless he kept watch on it . |
| 6 | I do n't often buy paper from the School Lodge , but as far as I can remember Recycled paper costs more than Ordinary Paper . |
| 7 | The founder often made provision for the mass-priest to teach a grammar school . |
| 8 | Isolation in the staff room can often become part of the community language teacher 's experience but that should not deter the teacher from becoming more outgoing and willing to share , even where others initially are not so forthcoming . |
| 9 | Often marks induction into the ritual of pharmaceutical usage ’ ) . |
| 10 | The terms respondents used to describe the advantages of early retirement , or to rationalize it in retrospect , often showed concern for the position of young people in the labour market , although this was rarely cited as a reason for taking early retirement . |
| 11 | Sucker top growth is often called briar in the case of roses , after the name by which the wild rose was known , and following the old practice of using rooted briar stems dug out of hedgerows for budding and grafting — at one time this was one of the chief occupations of gypsies , who would ‘ hawk ’ them by the bundle around less reputable nurseries . |
| 12 | Divorce , for example , often takes place on the initiative of the wife . |
| 13 | The reverse process often takes place in the evening , and the mountains become clear and sharp again . |
| 14 | The sun visits fleetingly , if at all , with the gullies often retaining snow throughout the year . |
| 15 | I felt — I could not be more certain than that — that when I had treated polio cases on previous occasions I had actually sensed wasting muscles making slight quivers , contracting with the pain of a spasm ; and it was these contractions of muscles which , following normal treatment , so often caused shortening of the leg when the muscles withered . |
| 16 | This often took place in the pub and involved thinking aloud . |
| 17 | Plums are notoriously difficult to grow … often falling victim to the weather and pests . |
| 18 | It is interesting to observe that the use of our anti IL-6DBP antibody preparation , while not leading to reduction or elimination of the IL-6 induced band , often gives rise to the appearance of a slow migrating band on the top of the gel ( shown by an open arrow ) . |
| 19 | He would quite often lose track of the time at work and the resulting drop in his blood sugar level would affect his behaviour . |
| 20 | We have seen that in the detective story and even in the detective novel , scenes such as this used too often risk boredom in the reader . |
| 21 | Among the poor who had no property , desertion was the informal answer to marital unhappiness and was practised on an unknown scale until the Second World War : certainly , eighteenth and nineteenth century poor law officials often expressed concern at the number of deserted wives drawing relief . |
| 22 | Benjamin often expressed regret at the passing of ‘ traditional ’ art and the social ties and functions which had made it possible . |
| 23 | Electronic spectra often contain information about the vibration frequencies of both the lower and the upper electronic states of the species involved , as described in Chapter 6 . |
| 24 | Anne thought Helen was right and Maureen said that she had been told when in hospital that patients often had remission in the disease their mother suffered . |
| 25 | If b>a then this internal flux may be neglected giving the often quoted formula for the inductance per unit length of a two-wire transmission line |
| 26 | In most of the state 's 900 or so water districts farmers often have priority in the use of water . |
| 27 | While valuation reports of this nature often include reference to the submission made by the parties and any other evidence collated , the reasoning behind valuations is not normally set out in detail . |
| 28 | Sales of companies and businesses often include provision for the transfer of the pension rights of the employees concerned from the vendor 's scheme to the purchaser 's scheme . |