Example sentences of "[am/are] often [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're not about cynically smothering access to justice with a cynical morass of restrictions cut and downright cynical regard for the rights of people who 're often in a vulnerable position . |
| 2 | Once rural bus services are subsidized they become vulnerable to withdrawal by councils dominated by car-owners wishing to limit increases in the rates , while those who need the service are often without a voice at County Hall . |
| 3 | Because non-Porsche parts are often of a lower quality than the real thing . |
| 4 | Notes on a lesson are often of a vague and impressionistic kind , which makes it almost impossible to draw the kind of inferences needed for our purposes , while those particular instances that are recorded are often atypical , having caught the observer 's attention for that very reason . |
| 5 | In Western society , other important agencies of socialization include the educational system , the occupational group and the ‘ peer group ’ ( a group whose members share similar circumstances and are often of a similar age ) . |
| 6 | ( b ) winter aggregations comprising animals of all age classes ( but with the older ones arriving first and departing last ) are often of a larger size and crowd several layers deep in crevices and pools . |
| 7 | At the non-advanced level , four main types of full-time course are available : the Ordinary National Diploma ( OND ) , a three-year sandwich course in general agricultural subjects , designed to meet the needs of the ‘ technician ’ ; the National Certificate , a one-year course for those intending to work as practical farmers , growers , or farm secretaries ; College Award courses which vary in length and in standard and are often of a specialist nature such as flower-growing or farm secretarial work ; and BEC Diploma courses which are being introduced by a small number of colleges . |
| 8 | Other observers have also detected significant departures from ‘ pure ’ bureaucracy in Soviet systems of government , though these are often of a type familiar to Western students of bureaucracy and have positive results , such as entrepreneurial initiative , departures from hierarchical principles , the development of informal relationships , creativity , pragmatism and instrumentalism ( Granick 1954 ; Armstrong 1965 ; Stewart 1969 ; Hough 1969 ; Churchward 1968 ; Hough 1973 ) . |
| 9 | Where problems do crop up in the records they are often of the type that are familiar to all families with teenagers . |
| 10 | As you hint at in your letter , the musical ‘ anoraks ’ are often of the ‘ would n't know it if they heard it ’ variety anyway , and hate the thought of anyone having an intuition , or a touch or a sense of hearing which they themselves could never muster . |
| 11 | The competitive element is , on the whole , damaging to artistic endeavour , especially in the school situation where co-operation and mutual encouragement in a non-judgmental environment are often of the essence . |
| 12 | Socks are often at the centre of the mini-wars at which couples engage . |
| 13 | Apart from the recession , drugs are often at the root of many offences . |
| 14 | That last archipelago probably suffers the most horrific conservation problems in the world , and pigs are often at the centre of them . |
| 15 | They are often at the rear or side of the main hospital building , or even sited completely away from the main thoroughfare . |
| 16 | Culture , on the other hand , refers to more deep-rooted assumptions , beliefs and values which are often on a preconscious level , things that are taken for granted . |
| 17 | There is also a good wine list and local delicacies such as crab , scampi and sole are often on the menu . |
| 18 | These ‘ away ’ areas are often behind the opposite goal to the home End and are recognized by the visiting supporters as their ‘ spots ’ . |
| 19 | The methods of enforcing a security interest depend upon the nature of the rights which it confers and are often in no way peculiar to company law . |
| 20 | The steeples are often in a later style , partly Renaissance and reminding the onlooker of Wren 's designs of the city churches of London . |
| 21 | This is not as simple as adding a cassette tape and storing the messages — the sort of companies looking for voice record storage are often in a highly regulated environment . |
| 22 | Er Ministers are often in a very grave difficulty these days , if they do n't listen er er they 're accused o o of being autocratic , i i if they do listen , er then they 're accused of making u-turns , well even the gathering swine did n't have to make a u-turn , a change of direction would have been quite sufficient and I welcome the change of direction which the Home Secretary ha has made erm the objectives of this Bill are I think to be commended , but it is be perfectly clear from the outset that you ca n't combat crime by antagonising everyone concerned with the enforcement of law and order , the police authorities , the police and the magistrates . |
| 23 | Since kitchens tend to be positioned at the back of the house , they are often in an ideal situation for extending into the back garden , or knocking through into a corridor or back room to create a more useful space . |
| 24 | Patients like Peter Dawson are often in an agitated state when they first come into hospital … their first port of call may be the seclusion room . |
| 25 | This is why many Georgian and Victorian houses are out on their own , whereas William and Mary and Queen Anne houses are often in the middle of villages , where the original manor had always stood . |
| 26 | The rights of presentation to livings in the Church of England , known as advowsons , which are often in the hands of laymen , are also regarded as interests in land . |
| 27 | Causes of uncertainty are often in the area of giving and receiving instructions and in making sure that information is correctly understood . |
| 28 | One fact that contradicts it immediately is that women are often in the vanguard of linguistic change towards the standard variety . |
| 29 | This means they are often in the hands of high officials or the extremely rich — the very people who are hardest to persuade to give up their illegal captives . |
| 30 | In this country much of that experience is differentiated along class lines : crudely , the very well-off use the predominantly single-sex public and boarding school system to accustom their children to an elite future , and the middle class ensure that their neighbourhood state school reinforces the values of their children 's socialisation at home and that , in a streamed system , their children are all in the higher streams ; meanwhile , working-class children are largely concentrated in the less well-resourced state schools , are often in the lower streams , and are frequently regarded by their teachers and even encouraged to think of themselves as ‘ no-hopers ’ . |