Example sentences of "[noun pl] often [vb base] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE COMPLICATED VAT LIFE OF A LEASE Traders often lease premises , but there are many occasions during a lease 's life when VAT liabilities can arise |
| 2 | British national bibliography entries often omit prices . |
| 3 | Shops often advertise goods at ‘ Half price ’ or ‘ 50% off ’ and other cut-price offers . |
| 4 | Notice boards outside tourist offices often display weather forecasts for the next few days . |
| 5 | Although you could re-use the tape for another recording , you may decide to keep it : it 's surprising how even the most unambitious personal video recordings often contain scenes , or just brief moments , which are worth preserving . |
| 6 | He says horror films and books often portray snakes as monsters ; now he wants people to get to know his reptiles so that they stop fearing them . |
| 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 | ‘ Coping with stress ’ books often offer people a prescription : lots of techniques and good advice that are claimed to have been tried and tested and of proven value to all . |
| 9 | Nowadays it is clear that this distinction is illusory ; scientific applications of computers often require character string manipulation and need many of the transput facilities of business data-processing , while business applications increasingly need sophisticated arithmetic calculation . |
| 10 | In Holland , supporters often use firework bombs , which have caused serious injuries ; the violence of Dutch football supporters is just as great as anything in England , and with these two teams meeting , the expectation of violence is high . |
| 11 | Readers often ask GHI where they can buy rubber seals for traditional screw-top preserving jars . |
| 12 | Programme-makers often criticise IBA pre-censorship , which is , after all , a direct interference with freedom of expression by way of prior restraint , imposed by government appointees . |
| 13 | Yet , because policymakers often neglect demographics , those who watch them and exploit them can reap great rewards . |
| 14 | When this occurs the couriers often take benzodiazepines to stop themselves from getting too ‘ high ’ or agitated , but the outcome is nevertheless often fatal . |
| 15 | But voice settings often form part of the typical verbal performance of particular regional accents , and can thus also act as social markers . |
| 16 | This kind of ability is both envied and disparaged by many Continental musicians , and it can not be doubted that professional English singers often perform music which they have not had time to ‘ learn ’ in any sense of the term that a European singer would accept . |
| 17 | Shells from marine and freshwater molluscs often provide evidence of the food eaten by inhabitants . |
| 18 | Documentaries often include interviews with people who have some connection with the topic . |
| 19 | Companies often use details of education to plot out salary curves and promotion prospects . |
| 20 | Companies often recruit staff from speculative letters they have kept on file , and your letter may arrive just at the right moment . |
| 21 | Big manufacturing companies often have marketing departments where products are divided into brands , like Persil , or into product groups such as soap powders and detergents . |
| 22 | In a report to the Conseil des Ministres ( the Cabinet ) she wrote , ‘ Our companies often encounter resistance from West German companies in gaining access to the best parts of this market ’ , adding later , ‘ I am very European , but it is quite unacceptable to build Europe on the basis of an imbalance with Germany ’ . ' |
| 23 | Tax administrators often see tax theory as a luxury to be indulged in in any odd moment they might have to look up from their files , while tax theorists tend to see the administration and practical aspects of taxation as an easily coped with minor irritant , or deviation , from their ‘ grand design ’ . |
| 24 | These continental roasts often have chicory added to them . |
| 25 | Desperate parents often ask adults flying to a safe country to take their children for them . |
| 26 | Parents often need help in anticipating how to cope with demands outside sweet shops or in supermarkets . |
| 27 | Parents often have difficulties getting their children to sleep . |
| 28 | Thus today 's miners often work lodes that contain just I gram of tin oxide , known as black tin , for every kilogram of rock . |
| 29 | These emissaries often bore gifts as well as eloquent words : since at least the early thirteenth century royal pensions were granted to promising or influential cardinalsto eighteen at least of the seventy-two who there were between 1305 and 1334 , to six alone in 1309 when the royal mission secured papal backing for Gaveston 's recall . |
| 30 | Sealstones and frescoes often depict cult scenes ; stone vessels were often intended for cult use ; the finest faience figurines were idols ; the metal and clay figurines and miniature double-axes were intended as offerings to deities ; the recurring marine motif on the pottery and in frescoes may have had a cult association with the worship of Poseidon . |