Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] often [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elite performers often launch an attack as soon as the switch-change occurs , suddenly darting forwards with a powerful attack before the opponent has time to re-calculate your distance from him . |
| 2 | Parenting skills often need to be taught so that parents accurately recognize and understand their child 's behaviour and reactions ( Lieberman and Birch 1985 ) . |
| 3 | Ageist attitudes often contribute to despondency . |
| 4 | It came into Wexford 's mind that money metaphors often have to do with water , gushing , springing , and that business men talk of liquidity and cash flow . |
| 5 | Exhibitions are often regarded as a luxury item in a company 's marketing budget , and exhibition stand personnel often look upon manning an exhibition stand as an easy option to their normal duties . |
| 6 | The rig change often deserves the greatest attention . |
| 7 | Text books often include reference to explanations of legislation given by a minister in Parliament , as a result of which lawyers advise their clients taking account of such statements and judges when construing the legislation come to know of them . |
| 8 | Female garter snakes often lure so many suitors with their scents that the males form a frenzied writhing ball . |
| 9 | I also learnt the difference between a Helio Courier and a Pilatus Porter , two types of STOL aircraft often used in Ecuador ; the former small and cheap to charter , the latter costing £150 an hour but able to carry a collecting team of three people , with our usual equipment and the 500 litres of petrol needed for a long river trip . |
| 10 | It is significant that auction houses often sell an interesting example with the caveat ‘ as a binding , not subject to return ’ , meaning that they do not guarantee the contents of the book which , in such cases , are of secondary importance . |
| 11 | I was listening with half my mind to the essay my pupil was reading and although the ideas he was expressing ( about sense-data ) were in themselves neither new nor interesting they had set off ideas of my own , as the ideas in undergraduate essays often do — I think of it as one of the uncovenanted benefits of teaching . |
| 12 | JACKIE and Jaafer Sheblee used the kind of high-pressure tactics that double-glazing salesman often use . |
| 13 | Some reviews of aspects of urban intervention indicated that Urban Programme funding often proved crucial for the implementation of projects as diverse as business-development initiatives ( DoE , 1988b ) environmental improvements ( JURUE , 1986b ) and some employment-creation projects ( DoE , 1986 ) . |
| 14 | If in action scenes the surprise of key change often plays a greater role in underlining the words than the actual keys chosen , Campra nonetheless conformed to Lully 's usage and the theorists ’ recommendations in reserving keys with more than one accidental ( other than D major and B♯ major ) for moments of heightened emotion . |
| 15 | In brief , murder cases often lack the court interaction where two versions seriously clash . |
| 16 | Weight loss often restores normal cycle regularity and sex hormone concentrations in obese women , which indicates that obesity itself and not primary endocrine dysfunction is the cause of the reproductive problems . |
| 17 | FIND A CLUB Readers often ask about Fishkeeping clubs in their area . |
| 18 | but I realised that big weight losses often happen to very overweight people at the beginning of their diets , so I did n't expect to continue at anything like that pace . |
| 19 | Maintenance expense often overlooked by data-base designers |
| 20 | Those who persisted with their postgraduate study often did so purely in order to go abroad . |
| 21 | Flying at 2,000mph and at an altitude of 80,000ft crews often saw more of the world in one day than most people see in their lifetime . |
| 22 | Rosie the Rock Hopper often skips out of her enclosure in search of a snack . |
| 23 | The shape of the land and the potential wind barriers often indicate which side will have more wind . |
| 24 | Research posts often have short-term contracts and are rarely held on a tenured basis . |
| 25 | The snag was that their accounting years often did not coincide with the April-March tax year . |
| 26 | Also , third-world governments often keep housing and energy artificially cheap . |
| 27 | The whole grief reaction often takes about two years to work through from initial denial to final acceptance . |
| 28 | At busy times , 100 or more fishing boats often work in the area . |
| 29 | Their ‘ fame ’ during their football years often gets them cushy numbers as reps etc — aswell as jobs in industries around football . |
| 30 | Firms which are well experienced in overseas employee transfers often have international personnel departments with the necessary resources to organise and run such training sessions . |