Example sentences of "often [verb] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some hobbies and interests use equipment or materials that are fascinating or colourful in their own right and these can often lend character to a room if they 're left out on display . |
| 2 | This has often treated technology as an end in itself , and not queried its wider relationship to firm activity or weighed its contribution to performance . |
| 3 | First were studies of Quaternary ecology dedicated to reconstruction of the sequence of vegetation systems in particular areas and often using palynology as a technique of central significance . |
| 4 | People requiring accommodation often make use of the reservation form which hotels include in their hotel brochure . |
| 5 | In spite of my appeals for him to make some effort to intervene with the King , who could often attain success with a father bent on violent punishment , Kareem dismissed my cries of alarm with unconcealed irritation and insisted the subject be dropped . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Shells from marine and freshwater molluscs often provide evidence of the food eaten by inhabitants . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The founder often made provision for the mass-priest to teach a grammar school . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | noted in the 1890s that many sons would prefer to move rather than accept legal compulsion , and that their own old parents would often see relief as a right : ‘ the aged prefer a pittance from the parish ( regarded as their due ) to compulsory maintenance by children ; compulsion makes such aid very bitter . ’ |
| 14 | Often marks induction into the ritual of pharmaceutical usage ’ ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Divorce , for example , often takes place on the initiative of the wife . |
| 18 | The reverse process often takes place in the evening , and the mountains become clear and sharp again . |
| 19 | The sun visits fleetingly , if at all , with the gullies often retaining snow throughout the year . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This often took place in the pub and involved thinking aloud . |
| 22 | Men have often personified language as a woman . |
| 23 | The flexibility of ECP programmes , with issuance often taking place within a day of the decision to issue being taken , means that it is relatively easy to take advantage of such short term opportunities . |
| 24 | Plums are notoriously difficult to grow … often falling victim to the weather and pests . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | He would quite often lose track of the time at work and the resulting drop in his blood sugar level would affect his behaviour . |
| 27 | In all these , especially in the production of new words , reform has often taken place without a recognition of the implications for music in worship . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Benjamin often expressed regret at the passing of ‘ traditional ’ art and the social ties and functions which had made it possible . |