Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | JACKIE and Jaafer Sheblee used the kind of high-pressure tactics that double-glazing salesman often use . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In brief , murder cases often lack the court interaction where two versions seriously clash . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | FIND A CLUB Readers often ask about Fishkeeping clubs in their area . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Maintenance expense often overlooked by data-base designers |
| 19 | Those who persisted with their postgraduate study often did so purely in order to go abroad . |
| 20 | Rosie the Rock Hopper often skips out of her enclosure in search of a snack . |
| 21 | The shape of the land and the potential wind barriers often indicate which side will have more wind . |
| 22 | Research posts often have short-term contracts and are rarely held on a tenured basis . |
| 23 | The snag was that their accounting years often did not coincide with the April-March tax year . |
| 24 | Also , third-world governments often keep housing and energy artificially cheap . |
| 25 | The whole grief reaction often takes about two years to work through from initial denial to final acceptance . |
| 26 | At busy times , 100 or more fishing boats often work in the area . |
| 27 | Their ‘ fame ’ during their football years often gets them cushy numbers as reps etc — aswell as jobs in industries around football . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | As the merry band rolled noisily back to the team headquarters along the sea-front at Largs , they indulged in what football managers often describe as ‘ horseplay ’ . |
| 30 | They are designed to cope with the fact that judicial review actions often raise complex issues of public policy administrative practice which go well beyond the interests of the parties to the judicial review application and of the applicant in particular . |