Example sentences of "often [verb] in [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | They spread it all over Europe in competition with their bitter rivals the Rothschilds , who did not like the idea but were obliged to follow suit , and — as so often happens in periods of boom when financiers feel heroic and the money rolls in — it was much imitated , especially in Germany . |
2 | As public sector managers often benefit in terms of status , pay and conditions from the size of their bureaucracy , they will attempt to produce more of a non-marketed good than its customers would buy if they had to pay a price which reflected the cost of the good . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | However , this fact is not always recognized since the Conservative Party was often subsumed in office in Coalition and National government arrangements . |
5 | The case for island-driving is often argued in terms of efficiency . |
6 | Neighbours often helped in times of need , but people more readily turned to their kin in critical life situations such as sickness , unemployment , homelessness , old age and death . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Ultra-violet fluorescence microscopy is often used in examination of hydrocarbon residues in sediments ( e.g. Burruss , Cercone & harris , 1985 ) . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | The disease is most often encountered in pigs on pasture , though an occasional outbreak has occurred in yarded pigs . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | It is also an elected body , elected in local elections and often run in council on party political lines , as is this council . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | Orrin Tunstall reverted to being a Westerner , as he often did in moments of crisis . |
15 | Work relationships are often perceived in terms of conflict . |
16 | But the enthusiasm so often expressed in favour of change produced little movement within the industry . |
17 | That is why the surface to weight and volume ratio , so often neglected in discussions of animal biology , is important . |
18 | An Amnesty International report of Oct. 11 claimed that in the previous 18 months members of the armed forces , often working in collusion with drug traffickers and right-wing paramilitary groups , had killed 2,500 people and were responsible for 250 others who had " disappeared " following detention . |